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Past Exhibitions
Narrative Structures
Narrative Structures
is a group exhibition of eight artists who use technology to tell their
stories in engaging innovative ways. The artists represented in the exhibition
are: Gregory Cowley, Sharon Daniel, Christopher Dean, David Lee, Kent
Manske, Robin McCloskey, Anne-Marie Schleiner, and Lise Swenson.
Curatorial Statement:
"Narratives can
be literal, implied, enigmatic, and metaphoric. Structures can be non-linear,
layered, fragmented and symbolic. Narrative is no longer specifically
a literary form but also an epistemological category, a way to knowledge.
When employed by visual artists, narrative content is enhanced by the
personalized rendering of the narrative as it is produced in the mind
of the audience.
While many narratives
invite individual interpretation, it is important to be aware of the distinction
between manifest meaning and latent content. Likewise, it is valuable
to consider that a narrative simultaneously presents and represents a
world, a perspective. Narratives seem at one moment to reveal and illuminate;
the next to hide and distort.
The artists featured
in "Narrative Structures" present a diversity of investigation
into the nature, sources, and boundaries of human knowledge and perception.
As keen observers of the world we live in, these artists are creatively
using the tools offered by technology to express their visions and interpretations
of this world."
Monica Vasilescu
Nanette Wylde
ARTISTS:
- Gregory
Cowley
- Sharon
Daniel
- Kent
Manske
- Robin
McCloskey
- Anne-Marie
Schleiner
- Lise
Swenson
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Chik
Tek '97
The increasing frequency
and intimacy of our interactions with new technologies are redefining
what it means to be human. Within the new technology area, women have
been at the forefront in critiquing and challenging many of the assumptions
o technological progress reminding us of the human side of the human-technology
interaction, revealing both the idealistic and dire aspects of the technology.
Contemporary woman artists are playing a leading role in exploring the
technology's artistic potential for addressing and challenging gender
stereotypes, political issues, and cultural discourse.
The Chik
Tek '97 art exhibition spotlights art forms presented in digitally
manipulated video and photography, computer animation, interactive installations,
movies, and art forms specifically created for the World Wide Web. All
the artists represented in the exhibition challenge the confines set by
industry while stimulating technological advances in a highly creative
way. The Bay Area, as a technological crux is providing the fertile environment
for encouraging women to experiment and employ the emerging technologies
in unconventional and creative ways, thus challenging the assumptions
that women and technologies are incompatible.
ARTISTS:
- Rebeca Bollinger: new media conceptual artist
- E. G. Crichton: new media artist, UC Santa Cruz assistant professor
- Susan Felter: digital photography, Santa Clara University professor
- Diane Fenster: digital photography
- Lynn Hershman: pioneer new media artist, UC Davis professor
- Lisa Jevbratt: new media artist, graduate student CADRE Institute, San Jose State University
- Monica Lam: video artist
- Lara Lee: video and film artist and producer
- Elizabeth Stephens: video artist, UC Santa Cruz professor
- Christine Tamblyn: new media conceptual artist
- Tamiko Thiel: engineer/creative director and new media artist
- Geri Wittig: new media artist
- Nanette Wylde: new media artist
- Camera Obscura: video artist and film producer
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