[-empyre-] February 2009 on -empyre- soft-skinned space: Scalable Relations

[Christina McPhee]

February 2009  on -empyre- soft-skinned space: Scalable Relations

Please join Whitney new media curator Christiane Paul and friends on -
empyre- for "Scalable Relations"



February 2009  on -empyre- soft-skinned space: Scalable Relations

Please join Whitney new media curator Christiane Paul and friends on -
empyre- for "Scalable Relations"


Scalable Relations brings together artists that explore digital
media's capability of representing a growing amount of data in
constantly evolving relations--  the complexities and shifting
contexts of today's information society.

Join us at  http://subtle.net/empyre

with artist guests  Ricardo Dominguez, Sharon Daniel, Antoinette
LaFarge, Rebeca Mendez, Robert Nideffer, Greg Niemeyer and Sheldon Brown

One of the distinctive features of the digital medium is its capacity
to establish relations between large quantities of data through
filtering and processing according to different criteria. These
constantly evolving, scalable relations affect both the production of
meaning and a traditional understanding of aesthetics, which become
subject to computational logic-the instructions given by
algorithms-and a constant reconfiguration of contexts. The format of
the exhibition itself, in its distribution across multiple venues,
mirrors the relational theme of the exhibition and the inherent
connectivity of the digital medium.  Christiane Paul has curated a new
series of exhibitions in
California around projects by artists who do research within the
University of California DUC Digital Arts Research Network (DARnet).
"Scalable Relations" explores relation as algorigthm and production
in a series of networked exhibitions at UC campuses from now until mid-
March 2009.  http://www.ucdarnet.org/scalablerelations/scalablerelations.php
     Christiane Paul is the Whitney Museum of American Art adjunct
curator of new media art.  She lectures and curates widely and is the
creator of the online Whitney Artport  http://www.whitney.org/
artport/  Her "Digital Art' in the World of Art
Series is in its second edition and is in print worldwide.   She is a
frequent contributor on -empyre-, notably for our discussion on
modernism in March 2006.

The month-long conversation will be moderated by Christina McPhee (http://christinamcphee.net
)
Christina McPhee
http://christinamcphee.net

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