Announcing Proteus a net art project by Conor McGarrigle

ANNOUNCING

PROTEUS
The ineluctable modality of the visible - the continuing story of Artie
Doyle

A Net Art Project by Conor McGarrigle

http://www.stunned.org/proteus

Proteus is a meditation on place which takes place as our protagonist,
Artie travels on the DART commuter train into Dublin. For a few minutes
on this journey you can see Sandymount strand, the sea and the sky
before you are plunged once again into the heart of the city. This
episode is set against the background of those few minutes and the
train's movement as Artie's thoughts in the form of images of place and
notebook sketches are made manifest.

The project is part of a non-linear episodic narrative work in progress
which follows artist Artie Doyle on his travels through Dublin, each
episode corresponds to a chapter in Joyce's Ulysses. This is the second
episode of eighteen, the first being Cyclops.
http://www.stunned.org/cyclops

While on first appearence the scenes have a realistic look, it is soon
obvious that they are purely digital creations. The Dublin that is
presented in these narratives is an enhanced city, a city of grand
gestures and declamatory statements where the inner life of the
citizens, their thoughts, hopes and desires become manifest in the
streetscape and the fabric of the city like a contemporary take on
pathetic fallacy. As Joyce's stream of consciousness revealed the inner
lives of ordinary Dubliners these narratives seek to reveal the creative
processes of our protagonist, Artie Doyle, an artistic everyman and to
connect him to both the physical city and the iconic Joycean city where
the strands of history and culture bind us to the past.

Conor McGarrigle will be presenting both Proteus and Cyclops at the 5th
Symposium on Art and Multimedia Metanarrative(s)? at the Mediateca,
Fundacio "la Caixa", Barcelona 28th & 29th January
http://www.mediatecaonline.net/5jornades/eng/index.htm

About Conor McGarrigle
http://www.stunned.org/cmg.htm