DATA::::EVENT::::16.0

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DATA::::EVENT::::16.0 in association with the Civil Arts Inquiry

When: Thursday, Feb 12, 2004 - 7pm
Venue: Stags Head Pub (Upstairs Room), Dame Lane, Dublin, Ireland

DATA 16.0 just in time for Valentine's day!
Featuring presented work by artists/designers
Mark Tribe (Rhizome.org/ Columbia University),
Mary Flanagan (Hunter College/Game Art),
Kai-Peter Baeckman (Space Station Manager Game) +
Gameboy musical performance by Ewan Hennelly (aka
Herv)!

All D.A.T.A. events are FREE and open to the public!

Information on DATA 16 Presenters:

Mark Tribe
URL: http://www.nothing.org
Mark Tribe is an artist, curator and educator
whose interests lie at the intersection of
emerging technologies and contemporary art. He is
Director of Art and Technology at the Columbia
University School of the Arts. In 1996, he
founded Rhizome.org, an online platform for the
international new media art community, and served
as Rhizome's Executive Director until mid-2003.
He remains on the Rhizome.org board of directors
and also serves on the boards of ISEA, the
Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts, and the
New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City.
His most recent art project, Revelation 2.0
<http://www.nothing.org/revelation2>, was
commissioned by Computer Fine Arts. Recent
curatorial projects include Agenda for a
Landscape, a new media installation by Leah
Gilliam at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in
New York City, and the computer art section of
Game Show, an exhibition of artist's games at
MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Mary Flanagan
Professor, Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, NYC,
URL: http://www.maryflanagan.com
Mary Flanagan teaches at Hunter College in
Manhattan and lives and works in New York. She
holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and
studied film studies and experimental filmmaking.
Currently Flanagan's projects focus on networked
and computer based art and installation, popular
culture, and computer gaming. Flanagan's work
has been shown internationally at venues
including the the Whitney Museum of American Art
2002 Biennial, Ars Electronica, New York Hall of
Science, and galleries/events in Spain, the UK,
Norway, Japan, Denmark, Canada, Australia,
France, Italy, Slovenia, and the US. Flanagan's
essays on digital art, cyberculture, and gaming
have appeared in periodicals such as Art Journal,
Wide Angle, Convergence, and Culture Machine, as
well as several books. Her co-edited collection
Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture was
published by MIT Press in 2002, and reskin is due
in 2004. She is also the creator of aThe
Adventures of Josie True,a the first web-based
adventure game for girls, and is collaborating on
a new project to teach middle school girls
computer programming.

Kai-Peter Baeckman
URL: http://www.mistaril.com/
Kai-Peter Backman started programming demos and games on the Amiga
in the eighties. A fascinating hobby turned into a career when he founded
Mistaril in 1996 to make Java games and
applications.In 2001 he started researching the
viability of independent game development using
the internet as the main distribution channel.
The first title, Space Station Manager, was
completed in February 2003 and subsequently
published and distributed by Mistaril. The game
has been selected as a finalist in the
Independent Games Festival 2004, in San Jose, CA.
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Musical Guest:

Ewan Hennelly (aka Herv)
URL: http://www.compactrisc.net

Ewan Hennelly, aka Herv, has become one of Ireland's better-known electronic
musicians in the past three years, amassing a considerable catalogue of
releases on labels both at home and abroad.
Working with a laptop and a Nintendo Gameboy
running custom software, Herv's music is a
frantic swarm of 8-bit melody and syncopated
percussion, punctuated by warm accordian and
layered violin and cello lines. Hailing from New
Ross, a move to Dublin to study and a chance
meeting with Tom
O'Doherty spawned their label Compactrisc, on which several Herv releases h=
ave
appeared. Working closely with filmmaker Conor Ryan, videos for several of
Herv's releases have also been produced and aired on the Irish alternative
music show No Disco, as well as being screened as part of the Dublin Electr=
onic
Arts Festival Blind Screenings, "documenting the evolution of music video i=
deas
for leftfield music in Ireland" (www.deafireland.com).

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ABOUT D.A.T.A.:

Dublin Art and Technology Association
D.A.T.A. Group

The Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA)
is a group formed with the intention of
promoting, exploring, discussing, and exhibiting
art and technology in Ireland and the world.
Based in Dublin, DATA is built on the idea that
collaboration between artists, musicians,
technologists, and academia is the key element in
creating a rich cultural environment for the
dialogue and conception of technological art
practices. We aim to create an informal space
where art and technology can meet and allow
people from multiple backgrounds to come
together, collaborate, and explore new directions
and art practices.

DATA is dedicated to both showcasing the work of
local technologists, musicians, and artists using
technology as well as providing a meeting point
for the intersection of these disciplines.

Our aim is to encourage collaboration between
group and non/group members and support an open
forum for ideas, practice, and presentation. All
forms of art and tech are welcome for showing at
the group events - from interactive work to
net-based projects to digital video to audio
projects to theatrical performances to
installations - and we will be asking for an open
call for people to present their projects at the
various events and venues around Dublin.

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Contact Info:
Website: http://www.data.ie
To Join Mailing List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/datagroup/

Co-Founders:
Jonah Brucker-Cohen ([email protected])
Nicky Gogan (nicky\[email protected])

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All D.A.T.A. events are FREE and open to the public
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ABOUT THE CIVIL ARTS INQUIRY
The Civil Arts Inquiry is a defined period of
strategic research into the development of a new
identity for the City Arts Centre, Dublin which
will also address wider community and arts
sectors.The Civil Arts Inquiry is based on the
recognition that social and cultural needs change
and that the means of meeting those needs also
has to change. To achieve this the Inquiry is
testing ideas and ways of working in support of
wider participation and of access to the value of
cultural production and experience.

All our events are recorded and published on our
website and in hard copy. Visit
<http://www.cityartscentre.ie>www.cityartscentre.ie to
download this material. For other
information contact Alexa Coyne
<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]