jihui digital salon presents Christina McPhee -- Thurs, March 17 @ 7:00 pm

jihui Digital Salon presents
Christina McPhee

Thurs, March 17, 2005 @ 7:00 pm
jihui - Digital Salon
Parsons Design Lab
55 West 13th Street, 9th Fl.
New York, NY 10011
http://agent.netart-init.org

Christina McPhee will discuss her work on digitally transformed landscapes, in particular her most recent project “Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries,” which consists of a live online data project and an architectural installation of C prints, sound and video, and is currently shown at Transport Gallery, Los Angeles.

Christina McPhee creates large digital chromogenic prints from medium format documentary photography, digital video, digital photos, and drawings made on site at seismically active zones in central California: from Carrizo Plains about 150 miles north of Los Angeles – called the Cadillac of San Andreas Fault geomorphology – to nearby Parkfield, where a 6.0 quake on September 28, 2004 has delivered a rich trove of geomorphologic data.

In the online diaries, Christina McPhee – in collaboration with writer Jeremy Hight and information designer Sindee Nakatani – draws from live, micro-seismic measurements and compiles hourly updates into number sequences that collide with an archived seismic database from the recent quake. The diaries are a live communication from a continuously active seismic landscape. Like fragmentary pages from a cinematic notebook, the data triggers Flash movies in which sound, text and visual narratives juxtapose the intangible, intimate and local sense of place with the “big data reality” of the continuous seismic activity in California imagined as a darker take on the romantic American western landscape. Layers of fiction trigger from the disturbances, much like the way human memory reconfigures itself after shock.


Christina McPhee is a multimedia artist whose digitally transformed landscapes mesh painterly, architectural and technological detail within an atmosphere of chiaroscuro and baroque complexity. She develops technologically nuanced topographies in net art, installation, performance, painting and photography. Her performances, video, and net art have been shown in exhibitions, festivals, and electronic media archives around the world, including Cybersonica/Convergence at the ICA New Media Center, London; California Museum of Photography; back_up/Lounge|lab at Bauhaus-University Weimar; Victoria Film Festival, Victoria, BC; FILE Sao Paulo, and Digital Arts and Culture at RMIT Melbourne. Her writing on phenomenology, trauma and memory in electronic art and architecture includes "Net Baroque" in Life in the Ruins: A CTheory Reader, edited by Marilouise and Arthur Kroker (2004) and "Aphasia/Parrhesia" for http://www.drunkenboat.com (2005).
http://www.christinamcphee.net


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