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BIO
Mark Tribe is an artist and curator whose interests include art, technology, and politics. He is Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Studies at Brown University, where he teaches courses on digital art, curating, open-source culture, radical media, and surveillance. He is the co-author, with Reena Jana, of New Media Art (Taschen, 2006). His art work has been exhibited at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, and Gigantic Art Space in New York City. He has organized curatorial projects for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, MASS MoCA, and inSite_05. In 1996, he founded Rhizome.org, an online resource for new media artists. He received a MFA in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego in 1994 and a BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 1990. He splits his time between Providence and New York City.
Another NYT story on new media art...
Another NYT story on new media art:
The Wonders of Genetics Breed a New Art
By STEVEN HENRY MADOFF
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/arts/design/26MADO.html
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The article sucks, but I found this passage interesting:
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Yet the science at the heart of the art isn't all darkness, as the
scientists themselves are eager to note. Dr. J. Craig Venter, the
path-breaking geneticist who accelerated the decoding of the human genome
and co-founded Celera Genomics, is circumspect when he's told about this
latest show. "The problem with so much of this work is that it takes the
view of genetic determinism, that we're just the sum total of our genes,"
he said. "But the linear sequence of the genome, while it's an astounding
piece of knowledge, can't alone explain who we are and what will happen to
us. We are a complex business and a complex mystery."
His rival and colleague, Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National
Institutes of Health's National Human Genome Research Institute, seems to
take off from Dr. Venter's point, though he had not heard it. "I know the
artist's role is to provoke, and I welcome a consciousness-raising art, but
I wish more of this work would convey the mystery, the elegance, the beauty
of what the genome is about," he said. "The way in which this instruction
book is put together, the dance within the cell that alters in microseconds
in response to thousands of different circumstances and makes the right
decision to keep that cell healthy. It's stunning. There are plenty of
ethical issues to address, but I wish more of that sense of awe was honored."
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The Wonders of Genetics Breed a New Art
By STEVEN HENRY MADOFF
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/arts/design/26MADO.html
...
The article sucks, but I found this passage interesting:
+ + +
Yet the science at the heart of the art isn't all darkness, as the
scientists themselves are eager to note. Dr. J. Craig Venter, the
path-breaking geneticist who accelerated the decoding of the human genome
and co-founded Celera Genomics, is circumspect when he's told about this
latest show. "The problem with so much of this work is that it takes the
view of genetic determinism, that we're just the sum total of our genes,"
he said. "But the linear sequence of the genome, while it's an astounding
piece of knowledge, can't alone explain who we are and what will happen to
us. We are a complex business and a complex mystery."
His rival and colleague, Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National
Institutes of Health's National Human Genome Research Institute, seems to
take off from Dr. Venter's point, though he had not heard it. "I know the
artist's role is to provoke, and I welcome a consciousness-raising art, but
I wish more of this work would convey the mystery, the elegance, the beauty
of what the genome is about," he said. "The way in which this instruction
book is put together, the dance within the cell that alters in microseconds
in response to thousands of different circumstances and makes the right
decision to keep that cell healthy. It's stunning. There are plenty of
ethical issues to address, but I wish more of that sense of awe was honored."
+ + +
-m
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>Ascii Mades and More : Vuk Cosic
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Infotecture @ Artists Space in NYC
Infotecture
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 30, 6 - 8pm
Artists Space
38 Greene Street, 3rd Fl.
New York, NY 10013
(212) 226-3970
Participants include: AMO and 2x4, Bureau of Inverse Technology, Diller +
Scofidio, Foundation 33, Ken Goldberg and Karl Bohringer, Graft, Janette
Kim, Lunar Design, and the Sociable Media Group at MIT Media Lab.
Curated by guest curator Jenelle Porter.
www.artistsspace.org/exhibitions/future_exhibition_bottom.html
Infotecture responds to the information age
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 30, 6 - 8pm
Artists Space
38 Greene Street, 3rd Fl.
New York, NY 10013
(212) 226-3970
Participants include: AMO and 2x4, Bureau of Inverse Technology, Diller +
Scofidio, Foundation 33, Ken Goldberg and Karl Bohringer, Graft, Janette
Kim, Lunar Design, and the Sociable Media Group at MIT Media Lab.
Curated by guest curator Jenelle Porter.
www.artistsspace.org/exhibitions/future_exhibition_bottom.html
Infotecture responds to the information age
Rachel Greene Named Editorial Coordinator
Dear Rhizomers:
I'm writing to let you all know that Rachel Greene will be our new
Editorial Coordinator, starting June 3. We had 36 applicants for this
position, many of them very qualified, and it was an extremely difficult
decision. In the end, experience became the deciding factor: as many of you
know, Rachel was Rhizome's editor from 1997 through 1999. Hard to beat
that. She has also written about contemporary art for several magazines,
including Artforum, Frieze and Bomb, and is now working on a book on new
media art for Thames & Hudson's world of art series. Her Artforum feature,
"Web Work: A History of Internet Art" (a 7.8 Meg PDF file) is available
online at http://rhizome.org/info/artforum.pdf
I want to say a sincere word of thanks to all of the applicants.
Rhizome.org would have been lucky to have any of you.
Sincerely,
Mark
I'm writing to let you all know that Rachel Greene will be our new
Editorial Coordinator, starting June 3. We had 36 applicants for this
position, many of them very qualified, and it was an extremely difficult
decision. In the end, experience became the deciding factor: as many of you
know, Rachel was Rhizome's editor from 1997 through 1999. Hard to beat
that. She has also written about contemporary art for several magazines,
including Artforum, Frieze and Bomb, and is now working on a book on new
media art for Thames & Hudson's world of art series. Her Artforum feature,
"Web Work: A History of Internet Art" (a 7.8 Meg PDF file) is available
online at http://rhizome.org/info/artforum.pdf
I want to say a sincere word of thanks to all of the applicants.
Rhizome.org would have been lucky to have any of you.
Sincerely,
Mark
