November 18, 2004
Turbulence Commission: "Collective Geology of the Erased Space" by Paul
Catanese
http://turbulence.org/works/erased/index.html
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In "Collective Geology of the Erased Space," viewers are presented with
an imaginary strata formed from those lost spaces between sites,
machines, addresses, and links as if they had collapsed upon themselves.
This strata is imbued with fragments of conversations, recollections,
errant sounds and pregnant silences as if the memory of communication
had imparted itself on the strata in some way. Stretched thin like the
surface of a balloon, underneath the razor sharp cursor these sounds
whistle like a fingernail across the surface of a drum-head.

"Collective Geology of the Erased Space" is a 2004 commission of New
Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web
site. It was made possible with funding from the National Endowment for
the Arts.

BIOGRAPHY

Paul Catanese is a hybrid media artist and Assistant Professor of New
Media at San Francisco State University. He received his MFA from the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he lectured for several
years. His artwork has been exhibited internationally, notably at the
Whitney Museum of American Art, the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival,
Paris' Villette-Numerique, Germany's Stuttgarter Filmwinter and the
Canadian New Forms Festival. He is also the author of Director's Third
Dimension, a book on three-dimensional programming for interactive
multimedia. Paul has recently completed a commission for Turbulence.org
with funds made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts and is
currently working on a commission for Rhizome.org/The New Museum of
Contemporary Art in New York.

For more information about Turbulence, please visit http://turbulence.org/

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