— 11 Nov 2004 Steve Dietz wrote:
> You're invited.
>
> "Database Imaginary" opens Saturday, November 13 at
> the Walter Phillips
> Gallery, Banff Center.
>
> http://databaseimaginary.banff.org - website
>
http://www.banffcentre.ca/WPG/exhibits/2004/2004-10-14_database_imaginary/de
> fault.htm - press release
>
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A1=ind0411&L=new-media-curating
> -
> crumb discussion list "data art"
>
> Artists:
> Cory Arcangel, Julian Bleecker, Natalie Bookchin,
> Kayle Brandon, Heath
> Bunting, Alan Currall, Beatriz da Costa, Hans
> Haacke, Harwood/Mongrel, Agnes
> Hegedus, Axel Heide, Pablo Helguera, Lisa
> Jevbratt/C5, George Legrady, Lev
> Manovich, Jennifer + Kevin McCoy, Muntadas,
> onesandzeros, Scott Paterson,
> Philip Pocock, Edward Poitras, David Rokeby, Warren
> Sack, Jamie Schulte,
> Thomson&Craighead, Brooke Singer, Gregor Stehle,
> University of Openess,
> Angie Waller, Cheryl L'Hirondelle Waynohtew, Marina
> Zurkow
>
> Database Imaginary
> Curated by Sarah Cook, Steve Dietz, Anthony Kiendl
>
> "If [with] the arrival of the Web the world appears
> to us as an endless and
> unstructured collection of images, texts, and other
> data records, it is only
> appropriate that we will be moved to model it as a
> database. But it is also
> appropriate that we would want to develop poetics,
> aesthetics and ethics of
> this database."
> Lev Manovich (1)
>
> Database Imaginary presents 23 works made by 33
> artists between 1971 and
> 2004. The art projects in this exhibition span a
> period almost as long as
> the word database has been in use. It is really only
> with the rise of
> computing and widespread access to vast quantities
> of organized information
> that the term has come to the fore in the popular
> imagination. The urge to
> organize, however, is a longstanding trait of human
> civilization. In this
> sense, Database Imaginary is less about databases
> than about this cultural
> moment when they have become ever-present.
>
> Databases structure our economy, our knowledge
> systems, our security. Yet
> these structures serve and are subject to multiple
> goals and agendas. Our
> practical experience of databases in westernized
> societies suggest access
> not just to information about the world, but the
> world
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