[spectre] Fw: "Taystes"
Misko
mpandil@soros.org.mk
Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:59:40 +0100
*For Immediate Release*
November 13, 2001
"Taystes", a new web-based work by New York artist
Jenny Marketou
http://www.taystes.net
will premier as an interactive installation
commissioned by:
Cornerhouse Gallery / futuresonic,
Manchester, UK
"Broken Channel" exhibition
15 November - 21 December, 2001
http://www.cornerhouse.org
http://www.futuresonic.com
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Big Brother is Watching you...
"TaystesROOM" will have
its world premier at the exhibition "BROKEN
CHANNEL", at Cornerhouse Gallery, UK in
association with FUTURESONIC (the UK's festival
of electronic and sonic arts). This exhibition will
also feature the work of 2 other artists: Harun
Farocki and Ravi Deepres. The three artists examine a
world of high tech surveillance and voyeurism, whether
sinister and controlling or personal and erotic.
For the exhibition, New York based artist, Jenny
Marketou, has constructed "taystesroom", an
elaborate, interactive installation; it uses
mirrors and the internet to create a voyeuristic
arena. The installation evokes the erotic tension
of watching and being watched, seeing and being
seen, tracking and being tracked; and explores
the new vectors of desire that erupt in an
increasingly technological and networked
surveillance of voyeurs .
TaystesROOM prizes open observational technologies
to reveal erotic fantasies of control, hacking into
surveillance cams drawing you into a world of
voyeurism where the watchers are watched and the
trackers tracked. Where Ravi Deepres has slipped
between the wire to enter military complexes
and gain aesthetic perspectives on state-of-the-art
bugging, tastesroom breaks into closed circuits to
examine networks of surveillance that are at
once intimate and global.
Taystes has a sonic open source component
which is dynamically generated as the application
extracts and generates sounds (in real time)
while it is searching for taysty tid bits of
information in the surveillance databody, not
unlike a detective, sifting through the body of
evidence.
Special Acknowledgements:
Installation Design: Andreas Angelidakis
(architect, Greece)
Sound Component: Ile Cvetkoski (dj, artist,musician,
Macedonia)
Special thanks to HULL TIME BASED ARTS for their
generous support of the sonic component of
Taystesroom.
http://www.timebase.org/
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About the artist:
Jenny Marketou is a New York based artist. She
has been working in different media, including
photography,video, public performances, computer
installations, using internet, telepresence
environments and interfaces, networking technologies
and artificial smells. Her work has been shown
internationally including "CTRL [SPACE], ZKM,
Karlsruhe, "Markers Art / Re:Duchamp Exhibition"
49 Venice Biennial, Italy;represented Greece in Sao
Paolo Biennial 1998; Net_Condition, ZKM Karlsruhe,
Manifesta I, Rotterdam; "Tenacity", Swiss Institute,
NYC. Her lectures include: "Invencao", Sao Paolo,
Brasil; <net.net.netat MoCA, LA; Her grants + artist
residencies include: ART OMI, MECAD, Barcelona,
Banff Center, Canada; She is readying herself for
"Art Hack: Open Source Lounge" at Media Z Lounge
(New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC) with Steve
Dietz, Walker Art Center, and Anne Barlow, New
Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC). Her work has
been reviewed and published in: Speigel, Flash
Art, El Pais, Artbyte, NY Times, Art Press, and
TemaCeleste among others.
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for further information contact either:
Cornerhouse Gallery (Jude Holmes) tel:
0161.200.1517
email: jude.holmes@cornerhouse.org