[NetBehaviour] Identity Bureau Workshop: How to make a new identity

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Identity Bureau Workshop: How to make a new identity

20 October 2011, 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM

By Heath Bunting

Date: Thursday, 20 October 2011
Time: 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk)
Keizersgracht 264
Amsterdam


An identity is a mutable object. It’s negotiated between people, 
organizations, and institutions, formalized in documentation, actions, 
and possessions. In this workshop Heath Bunting (UK) shows how you 
create your own legal identity. As Bunting demonstrates, identities can 
be constructed over time by developing relationships to place a given 
“person” within a web of shopping cards, cell phones, bills, government 
correspondence, and other “personal” data. Identity Bureau challenges 
the idea of personhood by showing how materially produced an identity is.

Heath Bunting explores the porosity of borders. Often performing as an 
interventionist or prankster and finding form within everyday acts of 
resistance, Bunting's work reaches its public through systems of 
documentation and distribution including photography, print publishing 
and the web. Dismantling the divisions separating art and everyday life, 
Bunting prioritises information and action. His work is based on 
creating open and democratic systems by modifying communication 
technologies and social systems.

The workshop is limited to 15 participants. The participation fee is € 
10,00 (€ 5,00 for students) including refreshments and entrance to the 
exhibition The Art of Hacking.

For more information and registration, please email to anouk at nimk.nl


Heath Bunting‘s work straddles various modes of action, documentation 
and visualisation. Bunting is best known for his involvement in the 
formation of the net.art movement in the 1990s and as a founder of 
irational.org. His practice may be viewed in parallel with the 
tendencies of historical movements such as Conceptual Art or the 
Situationist International. Dismantling the divisions separating art and 
everyday life, Bunting prioritises information and action. His work is 
based on creating open and democratic systems by modifying communication 
technologies and social systems. He explores the porosity of borders, 
both in the physical space and online. Often performing as an 
interventionist or prankster and finding form within everyday acts of 
resistance, Bunting's work reaches its public through systems of 
documentation and distribution including photography, print publishing 
and the web.

Bunting’s works have been commissioned and exhibited at a range of 
venues, including The InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo; Apex Art, 
New York; The New Museum, New York; Tate, London; Documenta X, Kassel; 
The Banff Centre, Canada; Lovebytes Festival, Sheffield; Art 
Teleporticia, Moscow; The Arts Council England; Proboscis, London; The 
Watershed, Bristol; and DA2 London.

Some of his well-known works are: readme.html (1997), which relates to 
the issue on the Internet of visibility versus invisibility. BorderXing 
Guide (Tate commission, 2002) in which he comments on the way in which 
governments and associated bureaucracies restrict movement between 
borders. The Status Project (2004–2008) examines how the construction of 
our ‘official identity’ as a collection of data influences how we can 
navigate the social space, the Internet and private or governmental 
databases. And Map of Terrorism (Tate commission, 2008), in which he 
plots on a map the information required when making an online purchase 
in relation to new legislation defined in the UK government’s 2006 
Terrorism Act.

This workshop is organised by NIMk and SKOR | Foundation for Art and 
Public Domain.
www.nimk.nl
www.skor.nl


Netherlands Media Art Institute
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
T 020 6237101
F 020 6244423
http://www.nimk.nl

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