jihui presents: "Passage of Mirage" Artists / Curators Talk -- Sept. 30, 7-9 PM @ Chelsea Art Museum

jihui presents: "Passage of Mirage" Artists / Curators Talk

Thursday, September 30, 2004, 7 - 9 PM

@ Chelsea Art Museum, Project Room (2nd fl.)

556 West 22nd Street, @ 11th avenue, New York, NY 10011 USA

http://www.chelseaartmuseum.org/projectroom/2004/passageofmirage

http://agent.netart-init.org



Artists / Curators Talk

in connection with the exhibition "The Passage of Mirage" (Chelsea Art Muse=
um, Sept. 14 - Oct. 16)

featuring W. Bradford Paley, Carlo Zanni, Christiane Paul and Zhang Ga

Artists W. Bradford Paley and Carlo Zanni and curators Christiane Paul and =
Zhang Ga will discuss the projects and concepts of the exhibition "The Pass=
age of Mirage," which explores the "virtual object" and the issues of repre=
sentation that have been raised by it. "The Passage of Mirage" features nin=
e projects that portray the virtual object as a process, a data structure (=
or carrier thereof), or as an encoded reality. The artworks expand notions =
of the traditional art object, sometimes quite specifically with regard to =
more established art forms such as photography, film, or painting. While st=
ill informed by the aesthetics of more traditional media, the artworks in t=
he exhibition are media objects that are process-oriented, reactive, or ope=
n to (real-time) data processing and intervention.

W. Bradford Paley creates visual displays with the goal of making readable,=
clear, and engaging expressions of complex data. His visual representation=
s are inspired by the calm, richly layered information in natural scenes. H=
is process invokes three perspectives: rendering methods used by fine artis=
ts and graphic artists are informed by their possible underpinnings in huma=
n perception, then applied to creating narrowly-scoped, almost idiosyncrati=
c representations whose visual semantics are often driven by the real-world=
metaphors of the experts who know the domains best. Brad did his first com=
puter graphics in 1973, founded Digital Image Design Incorporated (didi.com=
) in 1982, and started doing financial and statistical data visualization i=
n 1986. He has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art; he created TextArc.or=
g; he is in the ARTPORT collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art; h=
as received multiple grants and awards for both art and design; and his de=
signs are at work every day in the hands of brokers on the floor of the New=
York Stock Exchange. He is an adjunct associate professor at Columbia Univ=
ersity, and is director of Information Esthetics, a fledgling interdiscipli=
nary group exploring the creation and interpretation of data representation=
s that are both readable and aesthetically satisfying.

Carlo Zanni (La Spezia, 1975) is an Italian-born artist living between Mila=
n and NYC whose work focuses on the intersection of computation and represe=
ntation. He paints landscapes and programs portraits. In the past three yea=
rs, his work was shown at venues including P.S.1, NY; Museum of Contemporar=
y Art (MCA) Chicago; Bitforms gallery, NYC; 3rd Biennale de Montreal, Canad=
a; Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva; and Borusan Center for Culture and Arts,=
Istanbul. During Artissima X, Carlo presented a sculpture-server called Al=
tarboy (Altarboy-Cyrille), a combination of a sculpture and Internet-based =
work. Carlo Zanni has been a recipient of the "2004 Rhizome at The New Muse=
um" commission.

"The Passage of Mirage" is organized by agent.netart – joint public progra=
ms by Intelligent Agent and the Netart Initiative of the Parsons School of =
Design

The exhibition is made possible by funding from THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION

Upcoming events related to the exhibition: "Negotiating Realities – New M=
edia Art and the Post-Object," a symposium at the Tishman Auditorium of the=
New School University, Oct. 10, 11 AM - 5 PM

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jihui (the meeting point), a self-regulated digital salon, invites all inte=
rested people to send ideas for discussion/performance/etc.

jihui is where your voice is heard and your vision shared.

jihui is made possible through the generous support from the Digital Design=
Department and Parsons Design Lab of the Parsons School of Design and from=
the Rockefeller Foundation

A joint public program by NETART INITIATIVE and INTELLIGENT AGENT

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