[spectre] For Immediate Release: Hyper-runt

[emily]

InLiquid.com presents a major new media project, HYPER-RUNT, curated by Ebon
Fisher and Emily Zimmerman.

ONLINE (from September 3) at http://www.inliquid.com/hyper-runt/
ONSITE (October 8-14) at the National Products Building in Old City,
Philadelphia.

(Philadelphia, September 2004)  InLiquid.com is pleased to present
HYPER-RUNT, an exhibit of digital and conceptual art curated by Ebon Fisher
and Emily Zimmerman.

HYPER-RUNT is an exhibition of experimental art projects by an
internationally diverse group of artists including Bigtwin, Shawn Brixey,
David Brody, Bradley Eros, klip//collective, Ken Goldberg, Natalie
Jeremijenko, Yael Kanarek, Mark Napier, MTAA, Joseph Nechvatal,
neuroTransmitter, and Caterina Verde. The artists were asked to submit those
projects which rose up out of the creative process and took on an insistent
life of their own, either in the studio or out in the public arena. These
works do not fit snugly in the usual litter of cultural categories. As Ebon
Fisher points out,

"HYPER-RUNTs raise uneasy questions pertaining to the nature of art in the
realm of artificial life forms, media viruses, robot psychology, and
inter-species cultures. They flirt with the possibility of a 'post-human'
future in which the paradigm of art and civilization gives way to a
hyper-biology of emergent processes. A HYPER-RUNT might be seen as an ornery
cultural lifeform, an élan vital, unexpectedly rearing its head in the
turmoil brewing between artist, audience, technology, and ecosystem."
													
										
HYPER-RUNT's Onsite component (October 8-14, 2004) will be the last event to
take place at Philadelphia’s National Products Building, which is scheduled
for reconstruction in November 2004. The entrance to the National Products
building is located at 119 Arch Street in Old City Philadelphia. This
exhibition will include technologically based installations and site-specific
works tailored to the National Products building. InLiquid.com is also
hosting a series of events in conjunction with the exhibition, including a
screening of Frames, a documentary about Grahame Weinbren’s piece by the same
name, and an evening of immersive media with klip//collective and musical
guests. 

Both events will be promoted during the Philadelphia Fringe Festival through
a guerrilla marketing campaign in Philadelphia and New York with materials
featuring the HYPER-RUNT logo and URL.


Curator, Ebon Fisher, was one of the first instructors at MIT's Media Lab
during its inception. Since the early 1990s he has been cultivating media
organisms through the use of media rituals and "Bionic Codes" in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He ran the Digital Worlds program at the University
of Iowa for 3 years, beginning in 1998, and has exhibited and lectured
internationally. Curator, Emily Zimmerman, has worked with Creative Time, New
York as a curatorial assistant to Carol Stakenas, and is currently working as
a research assistant on a moving images reader for Tanya Leighton. Other
consultants on the HYPER-RUNT exhibit include Glen Muschio, professor and
director of the Digital Media Program at Drexel University.  Prior to
teaching at Drexel University, Glen had over 20 years experience in corporate
communications, legal, community and educational media production. Ian Cross
is a co-founder of the Philadelphia area New Media Association (PANMA),
co-founder and CEO of I-Site, Inc., and co-founder of MYX gallery in
Philadelphia.


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dedicated to providing opportunities and exposure for visual artists and
designers, serving as a free public hub for arts information and resources,
and making the visual arts more accessible to a broader audience. More than
just an online presence, InLiquid also nurtures our creative community
through a continuing series of “non-virtual” art exhibitions and events.