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TAGallery 003_link.of.thought_thought.of.link...

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TAGallery by CONT3XT.NET extends the idea of a tagged exhibition and
transfers the main tasks of noncommercial exhibition spaces to the discourse
of an electronic data-space. The method of tagging allows the attribution of
artworks to different thematic fields. EXHIBITION_003 was tagged/curated by
Ursula Endlicher and Ela Kagel, who started the blog Curating NetArt in May
2006 as ongoing conversations about various topics surrounding media arts.
Their exhibition " link.of.thought_thought.of.link..." for TAGallery is an
extension of this blog in dialogue-form and a meta-curatorial statement of
their perspective on the challenges of curating media/net/art.

Exhibition
http://del.icio.us/TAGallery/EXHIBITION_link.of.thought

Curator's dialogue
http://del.icio.us/TAGallery/TALK_link.of.thought

Curator's bio/CV
http://del.icio.us/TAGallery/TAGGERS_link.of.thought

Curator's blog
http://curating-netart.blogspot.com

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For TAGallery we were interested in applying the format of our blog – a
dialog between the two of us summarizing and juxtaposing
experiences/venues/observations surrounding net art as well as media and
digital arts at large – to the idea of curating. As we bounced back and
forth our thoughts, we were letting ourselves get inspired by the previously
mentioned context. We were introducing and debating net art, physical or
virtual locations as "gallery" space, or documentations concerning web-based
questions, for this exhibition. This procedure turned out to be quite
intriguing, as it, over time, could stimulate more than one response, and
form some kind of tree-structure.

It was important to us to keep a lively discussion open, and bring in a
variety of different works, artists, organizations, and galleries. We were
interested in a brainstorming model, and in a spontaneous "blog" model of
curating, where every thought leads to a new thread. Our technique takes
inspiration by exquisite-corpse by the surrealists, but plays it by its own
rules. Instead of concealing the part that was written we used it as some
sort of chain-reaction, very much also, again, like in threads and comments
within a blog; Therefore in our curating model each collaborator adds
sequentially a new choice of links. Our focus is to link thoughts, while
thinking of a new link...

With projects/works by

UBERMORGEN/Alessandro Ludovico/Paolo Cirio, Jo-Anne Green/Helen Thorington
(Turbulence), Aleksandra Domanovic/Oliver Laric/Christoph Priglinger/Georg
Schnitzer, Cornelia Sollfrank, Eva Grubinger/Thomas Kaulmann,
0100101110101101 (Eva and Franco Mattes), Ruth Catlow/Marc Garrett
(Furtherfield), Graffiti Research Lab, Mushon Zer-Aviv/Dan Phiffer

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Curators/Taggers

Ela Kagel is digital media producer & curator in Berlin. She is a member of
Public Art Lab Berlin and co-initiator of the Mobile Studios project. Online
since 1996, Ela has focused her work on the intersection of art and
technology - with a special interest on digital culture. On this basis she
has created interface structures and concepts for various cultural events:
media art exhibitions, networked performances, mobile applications,
television formats, ambient computing or multimedia exhibition design – very
often in combination. Besides her work with Public Art Lab, Ela is a curator
and researcher in international media arts. In September 2006, Ela has
initiated Upgrade! Berlin, a series of public field trips to media art
places in Berlin along with a growing online resource.

Ursula Endlicher is a conceptual "multiple-media" artist working on the
intersection of Internet, performance and multi-media installations. She is
living and working in New York. Having used the Internet since 1994 – and
having started to use digital media several years prior – she bridges the
Web and physical reality either in multi-media settings or in performance.
Many works are also solely conceived for the Web. Thematically, her focus
lies in analyzing the social, political and structural components of the
WWW. Special focus goes to reflecting on hidden architectures on the Web,
such as translating "html" into different visualizations, formats, and even
into choreography, to make them visible, enjoyable, and experiential for
everyone. She received online commissions from New Radio and Performing Arts
(Turbulence), and from the Whitney Museum's Artport. Her work is included in
Rhizome's Artbase, and featured on Furtherfield. Endlicher has shown her
work at Artists Space, New York, Illegal Machines, Ars Athena and on
Thirteen/WNET's ReelNY.web. Recent workshops included an invitation to
TanzQuartier Wien

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