ABOUT
THE SHOW
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JANUARY 15, 2010
WHO:
FEED invites Artists of all media, Technologists, Researchers, Students, Professors, Scientists to submit proposals: All levels of experience welcome.FEED is a project developed by Lisa Lunskaya Gordon, Curator.
WHERE & WHEN:
2010: Main Event (Submission deadline January 15)
FEED: the exhibition: a network of 40+ projects and performances, film / video and more in a large industrial space in Boston.
WHAT:
FEED is a mixed media collaborative art installation / performance composed of individual art works on the themes of information network, and symbiosys within a neural network. We conceive of the exhibition as a series of artworks networked together to create a metaphorical closed system-- a living body. FEED is a juried project requiring collaboration, adaptation and invention.
WHY:
Every day we are becoming more dependent on information: When we cannot access our e-mail, or forget our mobile, we go into withdrawal. We have become part of the network. Increasingly this connection is literal: an implanted pacemaker is reset and tested using tones over a phone line held near the chest. Science and Medicine announce such cybernetic innovation daily. We have been assimilated.
THEMES:
Network (the grid, the "information superhighway") and how networking is informed by:
• Information Transmission
• Symbiosis
• Human / Machine
• Organic / Inorganic.
Those artists whose work is conceptually strong and relevant to the project and it's theme of NETWORK, but do not know how their work might be integrated physically may be invited to collaborate with others to ‘jack’ their work into the system.
FEED challenges artists who work in traditional media to invent methods of physically networking their pieces into this artificially constructed network system. The artist’s creativity thus becomes part of a larger collective work—a spirit not often fostered in contemporary art making. How far is the artist willing to push, revise, edition, or reengineer their work in order to comply with the rigidity of the system?
