1st of Java –
Perspectives on New Media
the 1st competition and showcase JavaMuseum launched in 2001
Show – The finalists, i.e. 37 works of 37 artists represent the result of the competition and form the essence the online show to b embedded in the newly created exhibition environment of five virtual spaces the art works are connected to.
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selected artists
the names are linked with the biographies
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The World of Awe
World of Awe is a cross-disciplinary project centering around The Traveler’s Journal, an original narrative started in 1994 and completed in 2011. Set in an undetermined future past, the diaristic and epistolary narrative reveals the story of a lone traveler who searches for a lost treasure in a parallel world called Sunset/Sunrise. The portal to this world is on 419 East 6th Street in Manhattan.
The narrative first appeared in paintings, followed by performance and the early net art website Love Letters from a World of Awe in 1995. Since then, the project has expanded into other media including sculpture, installation, and Textworks. Digital culture and technology of the 80’s and 90’s are central to the narrative, functioning as literary and visual devices to form the identity of the traveler.
Enter the Project here
Through storytelling and translation, Kanarek reshapes cultural associations of language. Her work enters spaces of meaning determined by global networks and her observation of the Internet as a metaphorical space written in human and computer languages. In recent years, her creative practice centers on the dynamics and form of multilingualism and the synchronization of narrative with standard time.
Selected for the 2002 Whitney Biennial, exhibitions of her work also include The Drawing Center, New York; Beral Madra Contemporary Art, Istanbul; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; CU Museum, Boulder; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University; The Jewish Museum, New York; Exit Art; The Kitchen; American Museum of the Moving Image, New York; LIMN Gallery, San Francisco; Holster Projects, London; Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh; bitforms gallery, New York; Nelly Aman, Tel Aviv; Boston CyberArts Festival; HVCCA, Peekskill; Arena 1, Santa Monica; California College of the Arts, San Francisco; Orsini Palace, Bomarzo; and Sala Uno Gallery, Rome. Kanarek’s work has also been shown in New York at Kenny Schachter Contemporary, Silverstein Gallery, Ronald Feldman Gallery, Derek Eller Gallery, A.I.R Gallery, 303 Gallery, Schroeder Romero Gallery, and the Art in Embassies program of the US States Department.
Cloh!neing God N Ange-Lz, 1999
Enter- Cloh!neing God N Ange-Lz
_Cloh!neing God N Ange-Lz_ explores the nature of contemporary cloning technology through parodying quasi-religious animations. The work progresses through a series of biologically-tinkered creatures,text, and music that highlight the absurdities that cloning technology may produce.
Mez
has exhibited extensively since the early 90s [eg Wollongong World Women Online 1995, ISEA 1997 Chicago USA, ARS Electronica 1997, The Metropolitan Museum Tokyo Japan 1999, SIGGRAPH 1999 & 2000, _Under_Score_ @The Brooklyn Academy of Music USA 2001, +playengines+ Melbourne Australia 2003, p0es1s Berlin Germany 2004, Dissention Convention @Postmaster Gallery New York USA 2004, Arte Nuevo InteractivA Yucatan Mexico 2005, Radical Software @Turin Italy 2006 + DIWO @ the HTTP Gallery, London 2007]. Her awards include the 2001 VIF Prize [Germany], the JavaMuseum Artist Of The Year 2001 [Germany], 2002 Newcastle New Media Poetry Prize [Australia], winner of the 2006 Site Specific Index Page Competition [Italy] + awarded the 2007 “Deep Structure: Deep Play” Neutral Ground/Soil Digital Media Commission [Canada]. Mez is also an online journalist [@ Furtherfield, Metamute, CyberSociology Magazine, and fineArt Forum], co-moderator of the _arc.hive_ experimental mailing list and online curator and lecturer in Netwurking.
