2006 Longwood Digital Matrix Commissions launch online + offline

*apologies for cross-posting*

New web projects commissioned by the Longwood Digital Matrix from eTeam, Jenny Polak, Mariam Ghani and Mary Walling-Blackburn are now online and linked from http://www.longwoodcyber.org.

The projects were launched last week with the show Longwood Arts Projects: Then and Now, organized in conjunction with Longwood's 25th anniversary celebration. The show is up at Haven Arts in the Bronx through January 12th, 2007 and features work by the 2006 Digital Matrix artists as well as the artists commissioned in 2005 (Manuel Acevedo, Monika Bravo, Gaye Chan, Prema Murthy); artists from the last year of Longwood's Cyber Residency program (William Crow, Nicolas Dumit Estevez, Kenta Furusho, Shih-Chieh Huang, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz); and artists associated with the early years of Longwood (Fred Wilson, Algernon Miller, Tim Rollins + KOS).

For more information on Longwood, contact program coordinator Juanita Lanzo-Guilbe or curator/director Edwin Ramoran: [email protected]

To check out the new commissions, visit:

eTeam's International Airport Montello
http://www.internationalairportmontello.com/airport/doku.php

Mariam Ghani's Points of Proof
http://www.kabul-reconstructions.net/proof/

Jenny Polak's Design for the Alien Within
http://jennypolak.com/Alien_Within.htm

Mary Walling-Blackburn's Bonfire Bitumin
http://www.bonfirebitumin.com/

Haven Arts
http://www.havenarts.org/index.php?page=exhibitx