AIR Gallery is pleased to announce:

Technically Engaged

New and ongoing work from Yael Kanarek, Tina LaPorta, Diane Ludin, and
Jennifer & Kevin McCoy. Curated by Jennifer Crowe.

AIR Gallery
40 Wooster St., 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10011
(212) 966-079
Gallery Hours: Tu-Sa, 11am-6pm
www.airnyc.org

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Technically Engaged presents new and ongoing artworks from New
York-based women and their collaborators who work in the digital realm.
Diverse in their subjects and method of engagement with the digital,
these artists will present work that traces and tracks the flow of
information and persons, as well as the flow of cultural knowledge. This
exhibition proposal arose out of a series of group meetings where the
artists shared their current work and discussed what it means for them
to engage, as women, with the digital.

Yael Kanarek will create an installation extending her ongoing Web
project, World of Awe, an online journal and virtual environment
describing the adventures of a traveler in search of lost treasure. The
installation will contain two components: a computer running a local
version of the World of Awe Web site and two drawings on C-prints
created in situ at the exhibition opening on January 6th of World of
Awe's digital desert landscape that evidence the travel of visitors
through of the Web site.

Diane Ludin's Data Mirror: Touchable Video is a semi-interactive
installation focused on the emerging data interface used to draft a
working copy of the Human Genome. This installation will include two
touch screen monitors, a video switcher, computer and wall collage of
data sequences from the publicly funded governmental database used to
record the research and development of code in assembling a working copy
of the Human Genome.

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy's Every Shot Every Episode is a visualized
database in which television shots are categorized, rationalized, and
displayed with custom media players. The computer has underlined the
play of surfaces that structure our consumption of media. In this piece,
television is reexamined as a data field in which meaning is generated
in a new, critical, way from the same old material. Each day, three
different categories will be on view.

Tina LaPorta's Re:mote_corp@REALities is a video and sound installation
that explores the desire for communication between geographically
separated participants mediated by the surface of the computer screen.
In Re:mote_corp@REALities, video clips from CUseeMe online chat sessions
simulated by LaPorta dissolve one into the next, while an audio track
based on various interviews fills the gallery with sound. Both the
artist and viewers are witness to an emerging intersubjectivity– a
syntax unique to on-line culture.

Technically Engaged is part of the e.mergence series at AIR Gallery,
which features presentations and exhibition opportunities for women
working in digital, electronic, and new media art. Since the first event
in January 2000, e.mergence has expanded to include opportunities to
curators working with new media and web-based artists. With this series,
AIR hopes to provide exposure, discussion, and resources for those
working with and interested in digital media. E.mergence is organized
by debra l. hampton and Sheila Manion Artz.

For more information contact:

Jennifer Crowe
(917)923-5269
jennifer@rhizome.org

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For more information about e.mergence:
http://www.airnyc.org/emergence/index.html

The Artists:

Yael Kanarek

World of Are 1.0
www.worldofawe.net
World of Awe Launched
http://www.rhizome.org/object.rhiz?1773
Interview with Yael Kanrek by T. Whid
http://www.rhizome.org/object.rhiz?1812
treasure/crumbs new media initiatives
www.treasurecrumbs.com

Tina LaPorta

inter:view
http://www.uta.edu/huma/enculturation/3_1/laporta/
eye to the ear remix
http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/i/ga2750/tina/mix.html
Distance
http://turbulence.org/Works/Distance/
:::net.works + avatars:::
http://heelstone.com/meridian/templates/laporta/

Diane Ludin

The Thing
http://www.thing.net/~diane/
Identity Runners Re_Flesh the Body
http://www.franklinfurnace.org/tfotp00/ludin.html
Genetic Response System: Version 3.0
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/genresponse
Harvesting the Net: Memory Flesh
http://memoryflesh.walkerart.org

Jennifer & Kevin McCoy

www.mccoyspace.com
Airworld
www.airworld.net
http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/mccoy/
Interview: Jennifer and Kevin McCoy by Josephine Bosma
http://www.rhizome.org/object.rhiz?1562