[NetBehaviour] Media Art and Teenage

Wed Jun 2 23:45:06 CEST 2010

that's her, thanks

keep us posted on your project Lauren

bye
Annie

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 5:31 PM, <LWright at turnercontemporary.org> wrote:

>  Thanks Annie (and hello over there!), was it Sadie Benning you were
> thinking of? I’m also a fan J
> http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/benning.html
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> xxlaw
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> *From:* netbehaviour-bounces at netbehaviour.org [mailto:
> netbehaviour-bounces at netbehaviour.org] *On Behalf Of *anniea
> *Sent:* 01 June 2010 15:59
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> *To:* NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
> *Subject:* Re: [NetBehaviour] Media Art and Teenage
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>
> Hi Lauren,
>
> I was a bit like Michael, but also I cant find the name of the artist I was
> thinking about
>
> Some ten or even more years ago an American young girl had a videotoycamera
> for her birthday and starts after a sort of emotional shock, if I remember
> well, filmimg her life. The videos are very low tech and beautifull.
>
> Maybe my mail triggers someome elses mind :)
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>
>
> Yours
>
> Annie
>
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:44 AM, <LWright at turnercontemporary.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Michael, Ruth,
>
>
>
> Many thanks for the suggestions – really really helpful. I had that Axel
> Stockburger piece on my list already, but not the rest. The show’s finally
> beginning to coalesce a bit, but I still felt I’d not found quite the right
> work to look critically at the role of technology in teenagers’ lives. So
> some really good tips in there. If anyone else has thoughts do keep them
> coming!
>
>
>
> xxlaw
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> *From:* netbehaviour-bounces at netbehaviour.org [mailto:
> netbehaviour-bounces at netbehaviour.org] *On Behalf Of *Michael Szpakowski
> *Sent:* 31 May 2010 14:27
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> *To:* NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
> *Subject:* Re: [NetBehaviour] Media Art and Teenage
>
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>
> Hi Lauren
>
> I felt guilty about not replying to this for ages but I couldn't think of
> *anything* teenager related, which says quite a lot about me , I think.
>
> Ruth's reply prompted me think a bit harder and I remembered Michael Daines
> who was a bit of a star on Rhizome as a teenager in the 2001 or so. The one
> that people remember is "the body of michael daines" but he also made a
> couple of other good things including a rather droll work called "it is now
> safe to turn off your computer" . There's a Rhizome memory lane editorial
> here:
>
> http://rhizome.org/editorial/2707
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>
> I couldn't find any of the actual pieces though..
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> hope it's all going well!
>
> michael
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>
>
> --- On *Mon, 5/31/10, Ruth Catlow <ruth.catlow at furtherfield.org>* wrote:
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> From: Ruth Catlow <ruth.catlow at furtherfield.org>
> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Media Art and Teenage
> To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" <
> netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org>
> Cc: "LWright" <LWright at turnercontemporary.org>
> Date: Monday, May 31, 2010, 1:15 PM
>
> Hi Lauren,
>
> Sorry for the tardy reply
> Been meaning to get back to you with a few suggestions.
>
> Jeanie finlay makes beautiful work (film, live, networked media, all sorts)
> with different groups of people Including this, Teenland, film
> http://www.jeaniefinlay.com/wordpress/?p=3
>
> Classic early (and controversial) netart notable for it's uncomfortable
> intimacy and heat
> http://www.mouchette.org/
>
> I found this on Turbulence---Beyond the Fire is an interactive documentary
> by Sesh Kannan which tells the stories of *teenage* war refugees and their
> journeys to the U.S. http://archive.itvs.org/beyondthefire/
> Although this probably wouldn't make ideal gallery viewing, an online
> component of this nature might connect with the experience of a section of
> local Margate teenagers. Could be a great spur for work with the gallery
> education/outreach programme
>
> An old favourite of mine is *Boys in the Hood* - video, Axel Stockburger
>
> http://art-action.org/proposition/catalogue/detail_cat.php?codeoeuvre=B13152&lang=en&qui=reali&oeuvre=B13152
> "interviews with players of the controversial computer game "Grand Theft
> Auto". The players deliver their perspective of the narrative space of the
> game by giving detailed descriptions of locations, movements, and actions in
> the game. These subjective accounts of a shared space lead to a diffusion of
> the borders between ‘real’ and ‘virtual’."
>
> This from the 2008 Whitney Bienniale sounded pretty spectacular
>
> http://whitney.org/www/2008biennial/www/?section=events&page=at_park_performances
> *Teenage Lontano*
> Marina Rosenfield invited 40 teenagers to engage in a musical performance.
> Under a speaker installation suspended overhead in the vast Drill hall, each
> teenager wears a set of headphones and mp3 player containing an original
> vocal score, derived from Gyorgy Ligeti's 1967 piece *Lontano* for
> orchestra.  As the choir performs Rosenfeld's "cover version" of the Ligeti
> work, electronic sounds sweep in circles around the architecture of the
> drill hall from a single horn rotating, like a turntable, at 33 1/3 r.p.m.
>
> David Valentine (Mediashed)  - Video Sniffing
> Commercial (made using hacked CCTV footage) around Southend
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRQjLRm1xD8
> and
> The Duelists (cctv freerunning film) made in Manchester's Arndale Centre
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwueQrsTxXM&feature=related
>
> Golan Levin Kamal Nigam ,Jonathan Feinberg  *Dumpster*(visualization of
> online teenage breakup texts)
> http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/bvs/thedumpster.htm
>
> Hope these are helpful. It's a great subject for a show.
>
> : )
> Ruth
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From*: LWright at turnercontemporary.org
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> *To*: netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org
> *Subject*: [NetBehaviour] Media Art and Teenage
> *Date*: Tue, 25 May 2010 15:29:46 +0100
>
> Hello NetBehaviourists,
>
>
>
> For those who don’t recognise my name, I’m a former full-fledged
> Furtherfielder (Assistant Director and Co-Curator of HTTP) who is now in a
> new role, but still an adjunct of sorts, and very much (perhaps more than I
> knew!) a Furtherfielder at heart.
>
>
>
> I’ve been a NetBehaviour lurker and sometime-participant for a long time
> now – I hope you don’t mind my calling on you for some help. I know this is
> a forum where an interesting discussion might arise… So here goes…
>
>
>
> My new role is Curator at Turner Contemporary, an arts organisation in
> Margate, Kent soon (next year) to open a new gallery. The first big project
> I’m really getting stuck into is a major exhibition now called Teenage,
> which will open next summer. It will examine how Teenage – principally as a
> complex experience with an ambivalent rap in contemporary culture – has been
> represented in art since about 1900. It will also consider ‘Teenage’ as a
> concept with an interesting and compelex history, resulting in the
> ambivalence we now have as a culture toward young people – we both envy them
> for their youth, and media and capitalism do all they can to exploit that
> image, but we also collectively fear them (if the press ‘they’ get is any
> indication…)
>
>
>
> The project arose from lots of really good work they’ve been doing here
> long before my time with both young people and older people reflecting on
> their own experiences as teenagers. For those who don’t know it, Margate is
> now quite a deprived town so many of their experiences are quite difficult,
> but it also has a really interesting history wrt teenage – many people from
> all over the country will have spent holidays here in their youth, and it
> became quite famous as a place for different groups like Mods and Rockers to
> hang out (and sometimes fight!). So many people have much more positive
> memories and associations.
>
>
>
> The show will probably include artworks but also other stuff like music,
> photographs, etc. I’m very very keen that it include some great media art
> works and have been doing some research, but wondered if anyone had made,
> seen or knew of any thing, recent or not so recent, that might be relevant
> for me to look at.
>
>
>
> I’m also happy to hear your thoughts on the project generally, or your
> reflections on the idea of ‘teenage’. It’s quite a tricky project to put
> together as a curator, esp as it’s being led by someone from our learning
> team. It needs to be relevant to lots of different audiences – local,
> regional, national, international – but I don’t want it to be anything like
> a dry historical survey. So, any and all thoughts very much appreciated!
>
>
>
> Best to all,
>
> Lauren
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> Lauren A Wright
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> Curator
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> 29/05/2010 20.30 Nimk Amsterdam performance Huis Clos / No Exit - On
> Translation http://nimk.nl/eng/performmikka-internettikka
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> Article IF NOT YOU NOT ME, ANNIE ABRAHAMS AND LIFE IN NETWORKS,
> Maria Chatzichristodoulou in Digimag 54 May 2010
> http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1793
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29/05/2010 20.30 Nimk Amsterdam performance Huis Clos / No Exit - On
Translation http://nimk.nl/eng/performmikka-internettikka

Article IF NOT YOU NOT ME, ANNIE ABRAHAMS AND LIFE IN NETWORKS,
Maria Chatzichristodoulou in Digimag 54 May 2010
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1793
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