[Nettime-bold] "Taystes"

[Misko <mpandil@soros.org.mk>]

*For Immediate Release* 
 
 November 13, 2001 
 
 "Taystes", a new web-based work by New York artist 
 Jenny Marketou 
 
 http://www.taystes.net 
 
 will premier as an interactive installation 
 commissioned by: 
 
 Cornerhouse Gallery / futuresonic, 
 Manchester, UK 
 
 "Broken Channel" exhibition 
 15 November - 21 December, 2001 
 
 http://www.cornerhouse.org 
 http://www.futuresonic.com 
 
 
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 Big Brother is Watching you... 
 
 "TaystesROOM" will have 
 its world premier at the exhibition "BROKEN 
 CHANNEL", at Cornerhouse Gallery, UK in 
 association with FUTURESONIC (the UK's festival 
 of electronic and sonic arts). This exhibition will 
 also feature the work of 2 other artists: Harun 
 Farocki and Ravi Deepres. The three artists examine a 
 world of high tech surveillance and voyeurism, whether 
 sinister and controlling or personal and erotic. 
 
 For the exhibition, New York based artist, Jenny 
 Marketou, has constructed "taystesroom", an 
 elaborate, interactive installation; it uses 
 mirrors and the internet to create a voyeuristic 
 arena. The installation evokes the erotic tension 
 of watching and being watched, seeing and being 
 seen, tracking and being tracked; and explores 
 the new vectors of desire that erupt in an 
 increasingly technological and networked 
 surveillance of voyeurs . 
 
 TaystesROOM prizes open observational technologies 
 to reveal erotic fantasies of control, hacking into 
 surveillance cams drawing you into a  world of 
 voyeurism where the watchers are watched and the 
 trackers tracked. Where Ravi Deepres has slipped 
 between the wire to enter military complexes 
 and gain aesthetic perspectives on state-of-the-art 
 bugging, tastesroom breaks into closed circuits to 
 examine networks of surveillance that are at 
 once intimate and global. 
 
 Taystes has a sonic open source component 
 which is dynamically generated as the application 
 extracts and generates sounds (in real time) 
 while it is searching for taysty tid bits of 
 information in the surveillance databody, not 
 unlike a detective, sifting through the body of 
 evidence. 
 
 Special Acknowledgements: 

 Installation Design: Andreas Angelidakis 
 (architect, Greece) 

 Sound Component: Ile Cvetkoski (dj, artist,musician, 
 Macedonia) 

 Special thanks to HULL TIME BASED ARTS for their 
 generous support of the sonic component of 
 Taystesroom. 
 http://www.timebase.org/ 
 
 
 
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 About the artist: 
 Jenny Marketou is a New York based artist. She 
 has been working in different media, including 
 photography,video, public performances, computer 
 installations, using internet, telepresence 
 environments and interfaces, networking technologies 
 and artificial smells. Her work has been shown 
 internationally including "CTRL [SPACE], ZKM, 
 Karlsruhe, "Markers Art / Re:Duchamp Exhibition" 
 49 Venice Biennial, Italy;represented Greece in Sao 
 Paolo Biennial 1998; Net_Condition, ZKM Karlsruhe, 
 Manifesta I, Rotterdam; "Tenacity", Swiss Institute, 
 NYC. Her lectures include: "Invencao", Sao Paolo, 
 Brasil; <net.net.netat MoCA, LA; Her grants + artist 
 residencies include: ART OMI, MECAD, Barcelona, 
 Banff Center, Canada; She is readying herself for 
 "Art Hack: Open Source Lounge" at Media Z Lounge 
 (New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC) with Steve 
 Dietz, Walker Art Center, and Anne Barlow, New 
 Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC). Her work has 
 been reviewed and published in: Speigel, Flash 
 Art, El Pais, Artbyte, NY Times, Art Press, and 
 TemaCeleste among others. 
 
 
 
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 for further information contact either: 
 Cornerhouse Gallery (Jude Holmes) tel: 
 0161.200.1517 
 email: jude.holmes@cornerhouse.org 




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Melentie Pandilovski
Director
Contemporary Arts Center  - Skopje
Orce Nikolov 109, 1000 Skopje
Republic of Macedonia
Tel/Fax: +389.2.133.541
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Mobile: +389.70.217.075
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