[NetBehaviour] Slippage: exhibition announcement

[Nanette Wylde]

Exhibition Announcement

"Slippage: fragilities and instabilities in the phenomena of meaning"

an exhibition of net.art, runs parallel to 
ISEA2006/ZeroOne San José.  http://01sj.org

Exhibition URL: http://slippage.net
Exhibition dates: July 15 - August 31, 2006
Curator: Nanette Wylde

Slippage exists in the grey areas of language and 
social interaction. It is the realm of the 
in-between--the place of disjunction, 
expectations, covert meanderings, and the 
processes and residue of questioning minds. Sites 
selected for "Slippage" explore and expose 
relationships between intention, perception, 
control, experience, behavior, memory, knowing 
and the unexpected.

Artists include Mez Breeze; Krista Connerly; 
Juliet Davis; Lisa Hutton; Paula Levine; Jess 
Loseby, et al.; UBERMORGEN.COM; and Jody Zellen.

"Mez does for code poetry as jodi and Vuk Cosic 
have done for ASCII Art: Turning a great, but 
naively executed concept into something 
brilliant, paving the ground for a whole 
generation of digital artists." (Florian Cramer). 
The impact of her unique code/net.wurks 
[constructed via her pioneering net.language 
mezangelle] has been compared to Shakespeare, 
James Joyce, Emily Dickinson, and Larry Wall. Mez 
has exhibited extensively eg Wollongong World 
Women Online 1995, ISEA 1997 Chicago USA, ARS 
Electronica 1997, SIGGRAPH 1999 & 2000, 
_Under_Score_ @ The Brooklyn Music Academy USA 
2001, +playengines+ Melbourne Australia 2003, 
p0es1s Berlin Germany 2004, Arte Nuevo 
InteractivA Yucatan Mexico 2005 + in Radical 
Software @ Turin Italy 2006. Her awards include 
the 2001 VIF Prize [Germany], the JavaMuseum 
Artist Of The Year 2001 [Germany], 2002 Newcastle 
New Media Poetry Prize [Australia], winner of the 
2006 Site Specific Competition [Italy] + 2006 
Artifical A.Gender Competition [Australia].

Krista Connerly's overarching work is the Project 
for Urban Intimacy, an online space that features 
projects and ideas for instigating intimate 
encounters and "border-crossing" within an urban 
environment. Connerly received her MFA from 
Carnegie Mellon University in 2001. Her work has 
been featured in a range of national and 
international venues, including the Women's 
International Film Festival in Sydney, Australia, 
the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, the 
Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, the New 
Museum's online art community Rhizome, The Urban 
Institute for Contemporary Art in Michigan, and 
the Next Wave Festival in Melbourne.

Juliet Davis (Assistant Professor of 
Communication, the University of Tampa, Florida) 
is an intermedia artist, writer, and researcher, 
teaching theory and practice in interactive 
media, visual culture, and media writing, with 
particular interest in cyberfeminism. Davis' 
writing appears in peer-reviewed journals such as 
Intelligent Agent and Media-N (Journal of the New 
Media Caucus), and among Rhizome Digest 
commissions. Her artwork, which is forthcoming in 
SIGGRAPH 2006, has exhibited in Institute of 
Contemporary Art (London), MAXXI Museum (Rome), 
Web Biennial (organized by the Istanbul 
Contemporary Art Museum), The International 
Museum of Women (web), D>Art (Sydney Opera 
House), The Tampa Museum of Art, FILE (Rio and 
Sao Paulo), the Iowa Review Web, and many other 
spaces. She was awarded the 2005 "Born Digital 
Award" presented by the Institute for the Future 
of the Book (hosted by the University of Southern 
California's Annenberg Center for Communication) 
and is currently writing a book for called 
Exploring Writing for New Media (Thomson Delmar), 
to be published in 2007.

Lisa Hutton is an independent San Diego based 
artist working primarily in new media.  She 
received her MFA from the University of 
California San Diego. Recent exhibitions include 
Digital Visions and Prog:ME.  Her work has been 
exhibited in diverse venues including the 5th and 
7th New York Digital Salons, LA Freewaves at MOCA 
Los Angeles, the Downey Museum of Art in Downey, 
CA, the Walker Art Center's Beyond Interface, 
ISEA '97 Chicago, and Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, 
Austria. She has been getting along very well 
with computers since 1987 and is sometimes seen 
using rollerblades. 

Paula Levine is a visual artist focusing on 
experimental narrative and new forms of narrative 
spaces. She comes from experimental documentary 
photography and video.  Her research/art practice 
is in Locative Media -- Global Positioning System 
(GPS), wireless and remote devices. Recent work 
looks at hidden dynamics as a way to develop new 
understandings about the nature of place. Paula 
Levine is an Associate Professor of Art at San 
Francisco State University.  She teaches in 
Conceptual/Information Arts (CIA), an area 
focusing on digital art and experimental 
technologies.

Jess Loseby is a digital artist from the UK. Her 
main "canvas" is the Internet but she also 
creates large interactive installations, video, 
mobile phone media, prints and performance. Her 
work is based around "the cyber-domestic 
aesthetic": scrutinising the small, the domestic 
and her ideas of "amplified reality". She was the 
first artist to undertake a totally virtual 
artist residency (with Furtherfield.org) and her 
awards include Daniel Langlois, Dino Villani 
International Prize (Premio Suzzara) and Arts 
Council England. She exhibits in galleries and 
festivals internationally and is an established 
artist-curator. Jess has an eccentric husband, 3 
inspirational children and a pink wheelchair. She 
also lives in "the village" - just not that one.

UBERMORGEN.COM is an artist duo created in 
Vienna, Austria, by Lizvlx and Hans Bernhard, a 
founder of etoy. Behind UBERMORGEN.COM we can 
find one of the most unmatchable identities 
'controversial and iconoclast 'of the 
contemporary European techno-fine-art 
avant-garde. Their open circuit of conceptual 
art, drawing, software art, pixel-painting, 
computer installations, net.art, sculpture and 
digital activism (media hacking) transforms their 
brand into a hybrid Gesamtkunstwerk. 
UBERMORGEN.COM’s work is unique not because of 
what they do but because how, when, where and why 
they do it. The computer and the network are 
(ab)used to create art and combine its multiple 
forms. The permanent amalgamation of fact and 
fiction points toward an extremely expanded 
concept of one’s working materials, that for 
UBERMORGEN.COM also include (international) 
rights, democracy and global communication 
(input-feedback loops). 'Ubermorgen' is the 
German word both for 'the day after tomorrow' or 
'super-tomorrow'.

Jody Zellen is an artist living in Los Angeles, 
California who works in many media simultaneously 
making photographs, installations, net art, 
public art, as well as artists' books that 
explore the subject of the urban environment. She 
employs media-generated representations of 
contemporary and historic cities as raw material 
for aesthetic and social investigations. Solo 
exhibitions include Pace University's Digital 
gallery (2005); The Laguna Art Museum (2004-05); 
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (2002); 
Deep River, Los Angeles (2001). Her net art 
projects have shown world wide since 1997 in 
festivals and exhibitions such as Arte Nuevo 
Interactive, Mexico; ACCEA, Armenia; Prog:Me, Rio 
de Janeiro (2005); File, Brazil; Festival du 
Noveau Cinema, Montreal; Siggraph, Los  Angeles; 
International Festival of Electronic Art, 
Argentina; Cosign, Croatia (2004); New Forms 
Festival, Vancouver; Recontres Internationales, 
Berlin (2003); Whitney Museum Artport (2002); XXV 
Bienal de Sao Paulo (2002); Art Future, Taiwan 
(2000); Net_Condition, ZKM (1999); Film + Arch.3, 
Graz (1997).

Nanette Wylde is a conceptual artist working in 
hybrid media. Her interests include: language, 
personality, difference, beliefs, systems, ideas, 
movement, reflection, identity, perceptions, 
structure, stories, socializations, definitions, 
context, memory, experience, change, and 
residue.  She is an Associate Professor of Art & 
Art History at California State University, Chico 
where she developed and coordinates the 
Electronic Arts Program.