[-empyre-] Introducing Datascapes with Teri Rueb, Brett Stalbaum and John Tonkin

[Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net>]

Dear -emypreans-

Apologies to the artists--today I learned that your cvs were in an email
written yesterday by me and sent via yahoo.  Yahoo truncated the message and
then declined to send it!

So here they are in a second try.

Christina

----datascape aesthetics and psychogeographies in digital culture------



 --------Teri Rueb has used global positioning
 satellite (GPS) technology in her work since 1996 to
 explore issues of space, mapping, landscape, memory,
 the body and cultural identity.   Her current research
 explores sonic and acoustic constructions of space,
 spatialized narrative, human movement and
 psycho-social geography.  She is currently working on
 an interactive sound installation that explores the
 urban landscape and psychosocial geography of
 Baltimore, Maryland. In 1999 she launched Trace: a
 memorial environmental sound installation along a
 network of hiking trails in the Canadian Rockies
 (produced with the support of the Banff Centre for the
 Arts New Media and Television Co-Productions, Alberta,
 Canada).
 Rueb lectures and exhibits widely in international and
 national venues including SIGGRAPH (San Antonio,
 2002), The International Symposium on Electronic Arts
 (Nagoya, 2002; Paris, 2000), Consciousness Reframed
 (Perth, 2002), the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the
 Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Banff Centre for the
 Arts, Bell Laboratories, Interval Research
 Corporation, and The Fraunhoefer Institute/GMD - The
 German National Center for Research on Information
 Technology (IRCAM, Paris, 2002; Glasgow, 2001). Rueb
 is also co-founder of Utensile Design, a technology
 innovation firm that specializes in the design of
 alternative hardware and software interfaces for
 people with special needs.

 Rueb's work has been featured and reviewed in diverse
 publications including "Information Arts:
 Intersections of Art, Science and Technology", edited
 by Stephen Wilson, MIT Press, 2001; I.D. Magazine; and
 Interactivity Magazine. She holds a B.F.A. in Art and
 Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon
 University (Honors, C.F.A. & H.S.S.), and a master's
 degree in Interactive Telecommunications from the
 Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She is
 currently an Assistant Professor of Visual Art at the
 University of Maryland Baltimore County where she
 teaches courses in embodied interaction, tangible
 interfaces, and the history and theory of electronic
 art.

 http://www.umbc.edu/~rueb

------------------------------------John Tonkin is a Sydney based new media
artist. After studying science
and then playing with photography, experimental film and animation, he
began making computer animation in 1985. Tonkin develops his own software in
programming languages such as C++ and Java. His animations include the
series air, water parts 1, 2 & 3 (1993-95),
 a series of lyrical and poetic studies of the elements air and water, and
these are the days (1994) a meditation on the passing of time. These
works used mathematical modelling to create abstracted simulations of
natural
systems.

In 1995 Tonkin began making interactive art works that were designed to be
exhibited both as installations and online. meniscus (1995-99) is a series
of three works that explore ideas relating to subjectivity, scientific
belief systems and the body. It consists of Elective Physiognomies,
Elastic Masculinities and Personal Eugenics. His recent works involve
building frameworks / tools / toys in which
The artwork is formed through the accumulated interactions of its users. In
1999 Tonkin received a fellowship from the Australia Council's New Media
Fund. He is currently working on "Strange Weather: a grand unified theory" a
visualisation tool for making sense of life.


http://www.johnt.org
http://www.dlux.org.au/dataterra/exhibition.html


--------------Brett Stalbaum is a C5 research theorist
 specializing in theory, database, and software
 development. C5 Corporation specializes in cultural
production informed by the blurred boundaries of
 research, art and business practice. (www.c5corp.com)
The C5 Landscape projects, initiated in 2001, involve
 mapping, navigation and search of the landscape using
 internally produced Geographic Information Systems.
The projects are designed to take place over the next
 3 years. They examine the changing conception of the
 Landscape as we move from the aesthetics
 of representation to those of database visualization
 and interface. C5's Landscape Database consists of a
 relational database, software libraries and utility
 programs for use with GPS and digital elevation
 modeling.  C5's particular interests in GIS data are
 the relationship between the ontology of data and a
 changing landscape, manifestations of data-inflected
 performance in the landscape, collaboration models,
 and art works. In June, 2003, C5 will make its first
 mountain climbing/data collection attempt on a 'more
 serious' mountain (Mt. Shasta, CA, USA).

 Brett Stalbaum holds an MFA, Computers in Fine Art,
 from the CADRE digital media laboratory at San Jose
 State University (1999), and a BA in Film Studies from
 San Francisco State University (1991). He is a
 founding member of the Electronic Disturbance Theater
 with Ricardo Dominguez, Stefan Wray, and Carmin
 Karasic. (www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html).Working
 closely with Karasic, Stalbaum developed much code for
 EDT, including the FloodNet virtual demonstration tool
 that was used in 1998 and beyond in support of the
 Zapatistas. Stalbaum wrote a number of well known
 essays on artists, art, and networks during the course
 of the international net.art movement, and also
 engaged in a number of net.ar projects and performance
 collaborations. He has recently been involved in code
 development and research/theory work on database, the
 artist's role in the problems of large data, and
 landscape art.

 http://cadre.sjsu.edu/beestal

 
http://www.noemalab.com/sections/ideas/ideas_articles/stalbaum_landscape_art
.html