Apologies for cross posting…. opening this Friday in LA
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Christina McPhee
<http://www.christinamcphee.net>
<www.naxsmash.net>
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From: Lynn Hasty <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:47:04 -0700
To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject: Cyborg Press Release
For Immediate Release
October 22, 2002
"Memoirs of a Cyborg"
Christina McPhee
Opens in Los Angeles at Xin on October 25, 2002
Los Angeles, CA - Net artist Christina McPhee brings her multimedia
installation "Memoirs of a Cyborg" to Xin in the hip Melrose Heights area
(West of Fairfax) at 8064 Melrose Avenue, 90046. There will be an opening
reception and artist meet & greet on Friday, October 25th from 7:00pm -
10:00pm with an open bar in the adjacent breezeway. The exhibit runs
through November 14, 2002. For store hours or directions please call Xin at
323-653-2188.
"Memoirs of a Cyborg" is a transmedia installation that imagines the
memories of a feminine cyborg, trapped behind the digital screen. Her
presence is seen and heard in fragments of image, sound streams, and
performance video – an erotic architecture of the invisible world behind
the screen, beyond the web.
For her Xin show, McPhee redefines the Melrose high-edge retail space with
looped performance DVD video and spatial divides made of translucent
Panelite (www.e-panelite.com), that are printed in transparent duraclear
scrims. Video soundtracks loop digital keyboard and voice improv remixed in
ambient twelve-tone style. Music sources derive from her 2002 electronic
ambient CD, 47Reds+SonicPersephone (mp3 downloads at www.naxsmash.net
<http://www.naxsmash.net>).
Christina McPhee is a California-based digital performance artist who works
collaboratively in architectural design, sound art, electronic poetry and
the net. Her critical writing and net art has received international
attention this year. A new article, "Aphasia and Parrhesia" on
cyberpresence has just appeared on the Italian new media site,
www.neural.it/english <http://www.neural.it/english>. An elegy to the
cyborg in the invisible city, "47Reds" appears this month in the fall 2002
issue of the acclaimed online digital culture journal, Metal and Flesh/Chair
et Metal based in Montreal (www.chairetmetal.com
<http://www.chairetmetal.com>). Her new work was screened live at the
Institute of Contemporary Art, London and Softform/Hive Projects, Toronto
earlier this year, and at FILE2002 Electronic Language Symposium, Sao Paulo,
this summer. She presents critical presentations on the electronic space of
the net, most recently last month at Cornell University for the conference
"Digital Terror and Wired Ruins"
(<http://ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu/issue3/>). A digital installation of
her work is currently up at the California Museum of Photography UC
Riverside/Digital Studio's show "Impromptu" which runs through January 9,
2003 (www.cmp.ucr.edu/photography/impromptu
<http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/photography/impromptu>). "Memoirs of a Cyborg" will
debut online in Brussels and Helsinki via www.boringart.com
<http://www.boringart.com> on October 31st.
An interview with the artist on electronic sound art and media is online at
the London-based www.soundtoys.net <http://www.soundtoys.net>.
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For more information or to interview Christina McPhee please contact Lynn
Hasty at Green Galactic at 323-466-5141 or [email protected]. Also,
please visit www.christinamphee.net.
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