Self/System
CAST Gallery and Stock-site.org.au presents:
1 Dec - 1st April 2007
Mez
Andrew Bucksbarg
Andy Deck & Andrej Tisma
Curated by Scot Cotterell
This exhibition may contain material of a sensitive nature
Works (please select links):
Mez : XOR
Andrew Bucksbarg : Consumertopia
Andy Deck & Andrej Tisma : Playout
Article: Scot Cotterell
Artist Biographies:
Mez:
"Mez does for code poetry as jodi and Vuk Cosic have done for ASCII Art:
Turning a great, but naively executed concept into something brilliant,
paving the ground for a whole generation of digital artists." (Florian
Cramer). The impact of her unique code/net.wurks [constructed via her
pioneering net.language <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezangelle>_mezangelle_]
has been compared to Shakespeare, James Joyce, Emily Dickinson, and Larry
Wall. Mez has exhibited extensively eg Wollongong World Women Online 1995,
ISEA 1997 Chicago USA, ARS Electronica 1997, SIGGRAPH 1999 & 2000,
_Under_Score_ @ The Brooklyn Music Academy USA 2001, +playengines+ Melbourne
Australia 2003, p0es1s Berlin Germany 2004 , Arte Nuevo InteractivA Yucatan
Mexico 2005 + in Radical Software @ Turin Italy 2006. 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 Competition [Italy] *+ *2006 Artifical
A.GenderCompetition [Australia].
Andrew Bucksbarg:
Andrew Bucksbarg is a techno-media artist, experimental interaction designer, audio-visual performer and a professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University. Bucksbarg’s work and interests reverberate in the space of creative new media practices,
technology and theory. As an experimental interaction artist, Bucksbarg concerns himself with technologies and social systems that support tactics of ambiguous, autonomous social creativity and
exchange. Bucksbarg’s work appears physically and digitally around the globe, including the Rhizome.org Artbase; Stunned.org; Soundtoys.net; Trampoline Media Festival, Nottingham, UK; dLux Media Arts Festival, Sydney, Australia; and The International Media Festival: Art in the
Age of New Technologies, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Armenia. He co-produces a monthly, live A/V program, Videacy (Videacy.net) in Bloomington, Indiana and recently co-curated Mediatopia.2 fresh!, a net.art exhibition (Mediatopia.net) and is the director of Perform.Media (PerformTheMedia.net), a media arts festival and symposium at Indiana University.
Andy Deck:
Andy Deck is an American artist specializing in Internet art. His work
addresses the politics and aesthetics of collaboration, interactivity, software, and
independent media. Using the site ARTCONTEXT.NET, Deck combines code, text, and images to demonstrate new patterns of participation and control that distinguish online presence and representation from previous artistic practices. His aesthetic program delves into the myth of technological progress, issues surrounding collective authorship, and the cultural context of political passivity. Visitors to Artcontext encounter online production processes that suggest both the potential and limits of systematized creativity. In addition to the anonymous collaboration fostered by his websites, Deck has worked with arts collectives such as Turbulence, Personal Cinema, and Furtherfield, which mounted a retrospective of his work in 2004. In 1999 Deck co-founded the environmental art organization Transnational Temps, which has produced a series of terranodes (TERRANODE.ORG) -- earth art projects for the new century. In 2006 Deck opened a commission named Screening Circle on the websites of the Whitney Museum and the Tate Modern. He participated in the Node.L cultural events series and exhibited his work in London at the HTTP Gallery. Other 2006 exhibitions include Stockholm, Sweden; Como, Italy; Castilla-La
Mancha, Spain; Bodrum, Turkey; and New York City, U.S.A. The artist currently lives and works in New York.
Andrej Tisma:
Andrej Tisma is a Novi Sad (Serbia) based artist, art critic and curator. Since 1996 concerned with computer graphics and web.art, as well as writing on those media. Since the early '70s mail-artist and networker. Founder of The Institute for the Spreading of Love (1991) and Embargo Art campaign (1992).Andrej Tisma was born 1952 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. Graduated fromAcademy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1976. Since early'70s Tisma was concerned with many fields of art : concrete poetry,mail-art, photography, xerox, performance art and video art. Soloexhibitions since 1972 (Novi Sad, Belgrade, New York, Milan, Seoul,Munich, Naples, San Francisco, London) and since 1969 took part in some 500 collective exhibitions in about 40 countries all over the world.
Tisma's web art works are included in the Net Art Idea Line, Whitney
Museum Of American Art, New York, USA; Rhizome Artbase, New
York, USA; Net Art Guide, Stuttgart, Germany. He took part in the Ars
Electronica festival, Linz, Austria. Tisma lives in Novi Sad, Serbia