CyberPowWow 04 - Unnatural Resources

For these two days, Nation to Nation, a First Nations/Native
American/Aboriginal artist collective, invites you to join us for the
opening of a new wing of our virtual gallery and the launch of our
newly updated website. You can visit from the comfort of your
personal computer, or by going to one of nine designated Gathering
Sites across Turtle Island. Community members will log into a
combination chatspace, virtual gallery and library that explores
issues of contemporary Aboriginal art, technology and community. For
the fourth event (since 1997) in this ongoing series, we ask: What
does it mean to claim territory in cyberspace? What are the natural
resources of such territory? Can they be exploited? Is cyberspace
really infinite? How much can it escape the finite world of wires in
the ground, access to computing power, and entrenched modes of
thinking? Invited artists Rosalie Favell, Greg A. Hill, Ryan
Johnston, Joseph Tekaroniake Lazare and Archer Pechawis use their
intimate knowledge of some of the unnatural resources we have
determined so far -data, pixels, bandwidth, computing power,
networks, access, and attention- to create web-based works that will
be launched during CPW04. Visit www.CyberPowWow.net to find out about
other Gathering Sites, how to join in, and to see work from the
previous CyberPowWows.

Nation to Nation thanks terminus1525 for their generous support.


Skawennati is an artist, writer and independent curator who creates
projects for the World Wide Web because she believes it is an
extraordinary art delivery system. She has enjoyed frequent speaking
engagements, most notably at the Banff New Media Institute and UCLA's
Design | Media Arts Lecture Series. Recent essays about net.art, new
technology and the future have been published in Blackflash, Fuse and
HorizonZero. Check out www.skawennati.net for more info.


Jason is a digital media artist and technologist interested in
creating innovative forms of expression and the technology to support
them. He currently holds an Assistant Professorship in Digital
Image/Sound & the Fine Arts (DFAR) Concordia University's. Within
DFAR he teaches the next generation of digital designers and artists
how to think critically about the role of art and design in culture.
Visit www.thethoughtshop to explore his projects.