[-empyre-] Introducing E-lounge

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-empyre- takes pleasure in presenting E-lounge coordinated by by Lea
Deschamps.

Lea is a new media artist who holds a diploma in computer
animation from Sheridan College and an M.A. in Art History from the
Université du Québec à Montréal. She coordinated and curated the
e-lounge in situ dialogical space incorporating on-line and new media events
at the Atlantic Cultural Space Conference Moncton, N.B. Canada in May 2002.

For the October forum on -empyre- Lea has invited some of the artists form
the e-lounge event  to  present their current research and projects.
Presenters are Gair (Scotland); Randy Knott and Ron Gervais - I am static
(Canada); Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel Dugas -Wireless technology (Canada);
Saoirse Higgins currently doing research in the computing culture group of
MIT media lab, (Ireland-USA); and Clemente Padin - Mail art, Poetry and
artivism (Uruguay).

Although distinct in their respective processes and mediation of technology
and physicality, they converge in their exploration of social interstices
and nodes evocative of 'relational esthetics' (Bourriaud). These artists
will help implode binarisms such as periphery-center,
proximity-distance,authorship-spectatorship, original-mimetic.


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Atlantic Cultural Space Conference  http://www.artsnb.ca/acsc/
Gair    http://www.gairspace.org.uk
Randy Knott and Ron Gervais     http://www.iamstatic.com
Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel Dugas   http://www.wearegettingcloser.com
Saoirse Higgins   http://www.stunned.org/arthouse/Artistic/webshows.asp.htm
Clemente Padin    http://www.eale.hpg.ig.com.br/ppi/001.htm