Upgrade 2.0//with Nancy Nisbet

Join us Monday, April 5 at 730 pm for a talk by Nancy Nisbet.

Nancy will be discussing her new work-in-progress FA$Ter, a new media performance and installation that moves across international borders freely trading personal belongings with people along the way. It uses the tracking technology of radio frequency identification to label all items and a commercial transport truck to travel between Canada, the United States and Mexico. This project engages the turbulent intersection of the political/economic, technological, and personal. It addresses problems with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and issues of globalization, myths of increased security and protection through surveillance of people and commodities, and relationships between consumer goods and identity construction.

Nancy Nisbet is a Canadian artist working with new media, installation, performance and photography. Her artistic practice revolves around issues of digital technology as they relate to various systems of identification stemming from increasing surveillance, computer gaming, and the proliferation of computer-mediated communications. She received a Master of Fine Arts from The California Institute of the Arts and has degrees in Genetics and Education from the University of Alberta. She has taught Interdisciplinary Computing for the Arts at the University of California, San Diego and teaches in the Department of Art History, Visual Arts and Theory at the University of British Columbia


URL: http://www.finearts.ubc.ca/faculty/artworks/nisbet/index.cfm

Monday, April 5th at 730 pm
Western Front
303 East 8th Avenue
Vancouver, Canada

See you there!

Kate Armstrong
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The Upgrade 2.0// Vancouver is an informal monthly meeting of new media artists and curators held at the Western Front at 303 East 8th Avenue in Vancouver, Canada. The Upgrade series is a forum for the presentation of new work and is meant to foster dialogue and create opportunities for collaboration within the media art community. At each meeting one or two artists present work in progress and participate in a discussion. For more information contact Kate Armstrong : [email protected]

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