For Immediate Release Hyper-Runt (October 8-14, 2004)

InLiquid.com presents a major new media project, HYPER-RUNT, curated by Ebon Fisher and Emily Zimmerman.

ONLINE (from September 3) at http://www.inliquid.com/hyper-runt/
ONSITE (October 8-14) at the National Products Building in Old City, Philadelphia.

(Philadelphia, September 2004) InLiquid.com is pleased to present HYPER-RUNT, an exhibit of digital and conceptual art curated by Ebon Fisher and Emily Zimmerman.

HYPER-RUNT is an exhibition of experimental art projects by an internationally diverse group of artists including Bigtwin, Shawn Brixey, David Brody, Bradley Eros, klip//collective, Ken Goldberg, Natalie Jeremijenko, Yael Kanarek, Mark Napier, MTAA, Joseph Nechvatal, neuroTransmitter, and Caterina Verde. The artists were asked to submit those projects which rose up out of the creative process and took on an insistent life of their own, either in the studio or out in the public arena. These works do not fit snugly in the usual litter of cultural categories. As Ebon Fisher points out,

"HYPER-RUNTs raise uneasy questions pertaining to the nature of art in the realm of artificial life forms, media viruses, robot psychology, and inter-species cultures. They flirt with the possibility of a 'post-human' future in which the paradigm of art and civilization gives way to a hyper-biology of emergent processes. A HYPER-RUNT might be seen as an ornery cultural lifeform, an elan vital, unexpectedly rearing its head in the turmoil brewing between artist, audience, technology, and ecosystem."


HYPER-RUNT's Onsite component (October 8-14, 2004) will be the last event to take place at Philadelphia’s National Products Building, which is scheduled for reconstruction in November 2004. The entrance to the National Products building is located at 119 Arch Street in Old City Philadelphia. This exhibition will include technologically based installations and site-specific works tailored to the National Products building. InLiquid.com is also hosting a series of events in conjunction with the exhibition, including a screening of Frames, a documentary about Grahame Weinbren’s piece by the same name, and an evening of immersive media with klip//collective and musical guests.

Both events will be promoted during the Philadelphia Fringe Festival through a guerrilla marketing campaign in Philadelphia and New York with materials featuring the HYPER-RUNT logo and URL.


Curator, Ebon Fisher, was one of the first instructors at MIT's Media Lab during its inception. Since the early 1990s he has been cultivating media organisms through the use of media rituals and "Bionic Codes" in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He ran the Digital Worlds program at the University of Iowa for 3 years, beginning in 1998, and has exhibited and lectured internationally. Curator, Emily Zimmerman, has worked with Creative Time, New York as a curatorial assistant to Carol Stakenas, and is currently working as a research assistant on a moving images reader for Tanya Leighton. Other consultants on the HYPER-RUNT exhibit include Glen Muschio, professor and director of the Digital Media Program at Drexel University. Prior to teaching at Drexel University, Glen had over 20 years experience in corporate communications, legal, community and educational media production. Ian Cross is a co-founder of the Philadelphia area New Media Association (PANMA), co-founder and CEO of I-Site, Inc., and co-founder of MYX gallery in Philadelphia.


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