**Monday, February 12, 2001 (6-8pm)**
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center
596 Broadway Suite 602
New York, NY

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

YAEL KANAREK:
World of Awe:  Roam 1.0
is a 3-D roaming environment utilising the rendering mechanism of the game engine.  "WOA Roam" terrain will be based on the digitally produced desert images that appear throughout the website.  It will be designed to read a "live" feed of web traffic, to select and compile information gathered in a database, and is therefore dynamically + invisibly driven by human network action. Written in C++, as a final project "WOA Roam" will be available as an .exe for download via the net. A sound track is designed for the last stage.

[Yael Kanarek is a media artist living in New York. "World of Awe" is based on a journal describing the adventures of a traveler in search of lost treasure.  World of Awe versions 1995, 1997 and 2000 have been added to Rhizome's Artbase. Ms. Kanarek is an artist-in-residence at Eyebeam Atelier and Harvestworks. She has been showing her online and offline work internationally. "World of Awe" has been included in festivals in Brazil, France, England, Germany and the USA. The "World of Awe" screen saver is available through "Refresh, the art of the screen saver" on artmuseum.net.]

TINA LAPORTA:
Re:mote_corp@REALities
(world wide web mix)
Videotaping individual windows of cu-see me participants from her computer-screen, Tina LaPorta "captures" the movements of selected participants logged onto to a video conferencing forum.  Combining and juxtaposing the video-sequences with fragments of audio taken from interviews she conducts (in real life) with various artists and  theorists who work with digital media,  the artist demonstrates how our process of inter-subjective communication is becoming increasingly dematerialized as we shift away from the local toward the global.

[Tina LaPorta is a media artist living in New York. In 1999 she won a commission from Turbulence.org; NY (with funds from The National Endowment for the Arts) to produce an online project entitled "Distance" which was selected as a semi-finalist in the Global Information Infrastructure (Gii) Award in the Arts + Culture category.  As an Artist in Residence at Ars Electronica: Future Lab; Linz, Austria, she created her first online work: "Traces".  Recent exhibitions include "Technically Engaged" show at AIR Gallery, NYC and "Dystopia and Identity in the Age of Global Communications," exhibition at Tribes Gallery in NYC.]

JENNIFER + KEVIN MCCOY:
201: A Space Algorithm
Is an online software program taking as its point of departure, Stanley Kubrick's science-fiction classic: "2001: A Space Odyssey".  As an interactive online work, Jennifer + Kevin Mccoy's "201: A Space Algorithm" allows viewers to dialogue dynamically by providing methods by which film shots are indexed, catalogued + can be dynamically re-generated and re-combined, thus creating a new interpretation of a prior modern classic.  Running time is compressed or expanded, juxtapositions are generated synthetically, and shot selection becomes a collaboration between you and the computer.

[Jennifer and Kevin McCoy are varied media artists living in New York.  Group exhibitions include "Greater New York" at P.S.1, "Tenacity" at the Swiss Institute, "The Art Entertainment Network" at the Walker Arts Center.  Int'l arts festivals include: Poland, Japan, Switzerland, France, Germany, and Holland. In 1999 they received a NYFA grant in computer arts, a Jerome grant through the Walker Arts Center, and were artists in residence at the Worldviews program at the World Trade Center and Harvestworks Media Center. Articles about their work have appeared in Spin Magazine, Feed, and The Independent.]

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
about:

The TAM Digital Media Commissions
The Alternative Museum Digital Media Commissions 2000 (Participating artists: Angie Eng, Yael Kanarek, Tina LaPorta, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy).  To encourage the development of art for the Internet, The Alternative Museum is happy to present its first Digital Media Commissions, a program for emerging technology artists. This ongoing program will give artists the opportunity to explore new ideas and buy time, materials and technical support for the production of new works. Each participating artist receives an honorarium for his or her particular project.

Committee members for Digital Media Commissions 2000: Edward Earl (Curator of Digital Media, International Center for Photography); Marcus Pinto (Artist/TAM Webmaster); Cristine Wang (Curator New Media Arts) ; and Virgil Wong, (Artist & Webmaster for Cornell Medical Center).  Digital Media Commissions 2000 was generously funded with support from the Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City with a Cultural Challenge Grant; and from the Electronic Media & Film Program of the New York State Council on the Arts.    <www.alternativemuseum.org>

Harvestworks Digital Media Art Center
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center is a not-for-profit arts organization founded in 1977 to cultivate artistic talent using digital technologies. While originally focused on electronic music and audio production, they have expanded to include video + multimedia as interdisciplinary work has become a major artistic + social movement. Their education program helps students understand how to use digital tools and conceptualize a project.  Harvestworks is an on-site environment where artists learn new technologies, create art + exhibit new works in an integrated way.

The Harvestworks DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CATALOGUE features biographical information and work samples from composers + visual artists.  LISTEN IN: Special presentations of new music technology, Artists in Residence projects, and works by other media artists using technology.  TELLUS MEDIA is a series of innovative + experimental sound works produced and/or distributed by Harvestworks on cassette, CD + CD-ROM.  Harvestworks' programs provide the artist with production studios, grant opportunities, education, communal lab practice and distribution.  <www.harvestworks.org>

Cristine Wang (Curator New Media Arts)
is an independent new media arts curator, who recently organised an exhibition entitled "Dystopia + Identity in the Age of Global Communications" at Tribes Gallery, New York: <www.tribes.org/dystopia>; Founder / Editor of TAM MONITOR (an electronic journal of contemporary art: <www.alternativemuseum.org/tam_monitor>; Director of New Media Initiatives at The Alternative Museum, "ELECTROLOUNGE" (live streaming presentations by new media artists) <www.netart-init.org>; Conceptualised / Produced <MONITOR TALKS>, w/ Filmaker Lee Songe: a series of streaming video documentaries.

Streaming video interviews w/ contemporary artists include: Granular Synthesis (by Mark Dery, as part of "Art In the Anchorage 2000 series" produced by Creative Time, Altoids + Rhizome.org), GH Hovagimyan, and Jonas Mekas (in production): <http://ova.zkm.de>.  Future upcoming projects/collaborations include: Art Editor for Tribes Magazine (Issue 10) (a literary + arts journal available at the MoMA, Whitney, ICA Bookstores); Co-Curator w/Mark Amerika and Alt-X "Histories of Net.art: Fictions + Factions" an online + offline exhibition tracing the fictional + real histories of art-making on the world wide web; online + offline collaborations w/ NY Arts Magazine International, and 450 Broadway Gallery, New York.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++