New Media Forum I : "The Art of Software"

New Media Forum I
Presented by the Maryland Institute College of Art
and the MICA Center for New Media

Mark NAPIER
"The Art of Software"

Time: Thursday, November 14, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: Mount Royal Station Auditorium (S3)
Maryland Institute College of Art
Mount Royal Ave. & Cathedral Street, Baltimore
All Lectures are free and open to the public
Reception will follow

Mark NAPIER has created a wide range of projects which appropriate
the data of the Web, transforming it into a parallel Web - in which
content becomes abstraction, text becomes graphics, and information
becomes art.

Mark Napier, painter-turned-digital-artist, is one of the early
pioneering artists of the Internet to exploit the potential of a
worldwide public space. Creating artwork exclusively for the Web,
including such seminal works as "The Shredder," "Digital Landfill"
and "Feed," he has embraced an unprecedented artistic form that gives
the viewer the freedom to recontextualize the medium, to shred its
contents. Most recently his worked have been included in leading
exhibitions of digital art, including: the Whitney Museum of American
Art Biennial Exhibition, the Whitney's Bitstreams exhibition, and the
San Francisco Museum of Art's 010101: Art in the Age of Technology.

Mark Napier's on-line projects:
http://www.potatoland.org/

***********

The New Media Forum is presented by the Center for New Media of the
Maryland Institute College of Art in association with the Digital
Media Center of Johns Hopkins University. The 2002-2003 Forum is a
series of lecture/presentations by leading media artists, focusing on
multiple perspectives that explore the changing cultural phenomena
resulting from the convergence of art and technology.

Upcoming Lectures:

Tuesday, February 18th
Alex GALLOWAY, "How to Hack Multiplayer Games"
Alex GALLOWAY will discuss a new technique of "game remixing ,"
whereby two or more multiplayer game servers are collaged together in
real time.

Tuesday, March 18th
Margot LOVEJOY, "A Turn-Table"
Margot LOVEJOY will provide an exploration of her work on several
fronts, regarding new roles, new themes, new experiments in finding
participation and audience.

Tuesday, April 15th
Perry HOBERMAN, "Unexpected Obstacles"
Perry HOBERMAN will comment on the influence of technology on our
perception and the determination of our every-day life through his
installations and interactive environments. In this way, he expresses
the euphoria of many utopias in both a nostalgic and sarcastic way.

For more information:

MICA Center for New Media
Randall Packer, Director
http://cnm.mica.edu

MICA Office of Communications
410.225.2300