The Upgrade w/Zhang Ga next Thursday

Subject: The Upgrade w/Zhang Ga next Thursday
From: "Yael Kanarek" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, June 19, 2003 2:00 pm
To: [email protected]
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Dear all,

We're gathering again next week, THURSDAY, June 26, for an evening with
Zhang Ga.

Zhang Ga is an artist and the co-director of agent.netart, a joint public
program by NETART INITIATIVE and INTELLIGENT AGENT. His interest lies in
a recombinant construct of the analog and the digital, the real and the
surreal, which manifests itself in both the ambiguity and
unpredictability of imagery with regards to speed and time, and the
dynamics resulting from such tension between the inability to control and
the anxiety of grasping the ephemeral.

His recent online body of work deconstructs and rebuilds from cultural
iconography new interpretations and examines the dilapidated humanism in
the age of technological sublime.

Zhang Ga studied in Central School of Fine Arts (Beijing), Berlin Academy
of Arts (HDK), and holds a MFA from Parsons School of Design (NYC). He
has exhibited in Europe and America in ephemeral domains as well as
tangible spaces; organized conferences and digital salons on
network-based art practice; and served jury duties for new media art
grants. He lives and works in NYC where he is a faculty member of the MFA
Design and Technology Program @ Parsons School of Design; he also is a
visiting lecturer @ Computer Graphics and Interactive Media @ Pratt
Institute.

URL: http://apiece.net

When/Where:
Thursday, June 26, 7:30 PM
Eyebeam
540-548 west 21st street
Between 10 & 11 Ave

See you then.

Best,
Yael Kanarek

About our host: Eyebeam is a not-for-profit organization established in
1996. Through its Education, Moving Image and Exhibition divisions the
organization works to expand the public's appreciation and
understanding of media art. As part of its mission and efforts to provide
support for artists working within the intersection of art, science, and
technology, Eyebeam is excited to act as host for The Upgrade! events and
activities since April 2000.


Yael Kanarek :: NYC
:: net.art = http://www.worldofawe.net
:: initiatives = http://www.treasurecrumbs.com