"Taystes", a new web-based work by New York artist Jenny Marketou, will
premier as an interactive installation, commissioned by:

Cornerhouse Gallery / Futuresonic Festival, Manchester, UK

"Broken Channel" exhibition 15 November - 21 December, 2001

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Big Brother is Watching you…

"TaystesROOM" will have its world premier at the exhibition "BROKEN
CHANNEL", at Cornerhouse Gallery, UK in association with FUTURESONIC
(Manchester's festival of electronic and sonic arts). This exhibition
will also feature the work of 2 other artists: Harun Farocki and Ravi
Deepres. The three artists examine a world of high tech surveillance
and voyeurism whether sinister and controlling or personal and erotic.

For the exhibition, New York based artist, Jenny Marketou, has
constructed "Taystesroom", an elaborate, interactive installation; it
uses mirrors and the internet to create a voyeuristic arena. The
installation evokes the erotic tension of watching and being watched,
seeing and being seen, tracking and being tracked; and explores the new
vectors of desire that erupt in an increasingly technological and
networked surveillance of voyeurs.

The taystes tool has a sonic online component which is dynamically
generated as the application extracts and generates sounds (in real
time) while it is searching for taysty tid bits of information in the
surveillance databody, not unlike a detective, sifting through the body
of evidence.

Special Acknowledgements:

Installation Design: Andreas Angelidakis (architect, Greece)

Sound Component: Ile Cvetkoski (net.artist, Macedonia)

Special thanks to HULL TIME BASED ARTS for their generous support of the
sonic component of Taystesroom. http://www.timebase.org/

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About the artist:

Jenny Marketou is a New York based artist. She has been working in
different media, including photography,video, video events involving
dj's and performers, public performances, computer installations, using
internet, telepresence environments and interfaces, networking
technologies.and artificial smells. Her work has been shown
internationally including "CTRL [SPACE], ZKM, Karlsruhe, "Markers Art /
Re:Duchamp Exhibition" 49 Venice Biennial, Italy; Sao Paolo Biennial;
Net\_Condition, ZKM Karlsruhe, Manifesta I, Rotterdam; "Tenacity", Swiss
Institute, NYC. Her lectures include: "Invencao", Sao Paolo, Brasil;
<net.net.net> at MoCA, LA; Her grants + artist residencies include: ART
OMI, MECAD, Barcelona, Banff Center, Canada; She is readying herself for
"Art Hack: Open Source Lounge" at Media Z Lounge (New Museum of
Contemporary Art, NYC) with Steve Dietz, Walker Art Center, and Anne
Barlow, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC). Her work has been
reviewed and published in: Speigel, Flash Art, El Pais, Artbyte, NY
Times, Art Presse, and Temaceleste among others.

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for further information contact:

Cornerhouse Gallery (Jude Holmes)
tel: 0161.200.1517
email: jude.holmes@cornerhouse.org

Jenny Marketou email: jmarketo@thing.net