[spectre] Database Imaginary exhibition - interview online

[Sarah Cook]

"... Now that databases have become instantiated in nearly every aspect 
of contemporary culture, I think it’s important for artists to 
recuperate what this mass of numbers might mean in lived experience or, 
on the opposite end of the spectrum, to get a certain sense of the 
sublime..." - Steve Dietz

This week on Rhizome you can find an interview by Kevin McGarry with 
the curators of the exhibition Database Imaginary: Sarah Cook, Steve 
Dietz and Anthony Kiendl.

> http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=15882&text=30434#30434

The exhibition, which presents 23 works made by 33 artists between 1971 
and
2004, is in its last weeks at the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff 
Centre, Canada (it closes January 23, 2005) but will be touring Canada, 
the US and UK/Europe through mid 2006. The next venue is the Dunlop Art 
Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, opening in mid March 2005.

The exhibition website, which is regularly updated images and texts, is 
at
http://databaseimaginary.banff.org

Artists in the exhibition:
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

A catalogue for the exhibition will be available in late spring 2005.

The exhibition was co-organized by the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina 
Public Library, and made possible with funding from The Canada Council 
for the Arts, the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and 
Technology, Canadian Heritage (Museums Assistance Program), and the 
Alberta Foundation
for the Arts.

We'd love to hear what you think of the show!

Sincerely,

Sarah Cook


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Dr. Sarah Cook, New Media Curator / Research
School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland
CRUMB web resource for new media art curators
http://www.crumbweb.org
BALTIC, Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
http://www.balticmill.com