Syndicate: (re)distributions PDA art show opens

[Patrick Lichty <voyd@voyd.com>]

Press Release 8/01/01
(re)distributions show opens at voyd.com
http://www.voyd.com/ia

Personal information appliances, PDAs and nomadic technologies are causing a
redefinition of technological culture in the way that society communicates,
locates, and expresses itself.  (re)distributions addresses these shifts in
considering the handheld and embedded digital device as site of cultural
inquiry and personal expression.  Comprised of nearly 25 artists and scholars,
(re)distributions represents one of the first international exhibitions focused
on the handheld and wireless genres.

Included in the show are a number of recognized pioneers in the area of new
media art, such as Mark Amerika, Giselle Beiguelman, David Crawford, GH
Hovagimyan, Fee Plumley, hactivist.com/Critical Art Ensemble, Institute for
Applied Autonomy, Matt Locke, Simon Penny, rhizome.org, John Simon, and Joel
Slayton.  In addition, exciting new works from Elise Co, Gregory Little, Tom
Kemp, Angie Waller, Gregory Chiapuisat, Chiaki Darcy, and Max Kauffmann
(RTMark) stretch the boundaries of expression in the handheld realm.

One new genre that was a big surprise the genre of handheld/PDA art was that of
video art  for these platforms.  Louise McKissick offers her award-winning
Palm-based video, ?I Love You?, and (re)distributions invites the visitor to
view even more groundbreaking venues at sites around the Internet.

In addition, (re)distributions features several essays of an analyzing,
probing, and provoking nature on the possibilities and ramifications of
handheld, nomadic, and  wireless technologies from DiSalvo & Meyer, Patrick
Lichty, Mike Mosher, Rob Ray, and CADRE?s Joel slayton.

(re)distributions is a dynamically  oriented show, and will be adding new works
as well as hosting discussion forums and other events until the end of its
active run on October 31, 2001.  After this time, the exhibition will remain
archived at the voyd.com site, and negotiations are under way for portions of
this exhibition to be shown at venues around the nation.  

As handheld, embedded, and wireless technologies further insinuate themselves
into our daily lives, what are the creative/critical possibilities for these
devices, and will artists portend possible futures for technological society?

 (re)distributions is sponsored by voyd.com

Contact:
Patrick Lichty
Curator, (re)distributions
225-766-3811
voyd@voyd.com
 

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