Screening Circle
by Andy Deck
launched March 22, 06
artport, the Whitney Museum's portal to Internet art
http://artport.whitney.org
http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/screeningcircle/screeningcircle.shtml
Screening Circle adapts the cultural tradition of the quilting circle into =
an online format. Visitors to the site can enter the drawing area to compos=
e loops of graphics and affect and edit each other's screens. The pieces ca=
n be made by one person or by several people and the arrangement of the seg=
ments can be haphazard or precise. In the screening area, the resulting mot=
ion graphics will be on view instantaneously. The "circle" invoked in the t=
itle refers to the circle of participants, and, indirectly, to the loop of =
images that are produced. "Screening" refers to the pre-viewing of film in =
the film making process. It is a form of viewing that allows people to have=
some influence over the final product.
Accompanied by an essay by Alison Colman, "A temporal block-to-block: The e=
lectronic quilting frame of Screening Circle"
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"Screening Circle" is the third in a series of three works co-commissioned =
in collaboration with Tate Online. See http://artport.whitney.org/commissio=
ns/new_commissions.shtml
Critical texts and video interviews with the artists will accompany the wor=
ks at http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/
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Previous commissions:
The Dumpster (launched Feb. 14, 06)
Golan Levin with Kamal Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg
http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/thedumpster/dumpster.shtml
The Battle of Algiers (launched March 1, 06)
Marc Lafia and Fang-Yu Lin
http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/battleofalgiers/BattleofAlgiers.shtml
New artport | Tate Online commission: "Screening Circle" by Andy Deck
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Type: discussion