[spectre] july 0n -empyre-

Melinda Rackham melinda@subtle.net
Sat, 29 Jun 2002 17:44:40 +1000


-empyre- guests for July are Val=E9rie Lamontagne and Sylvie Parent from
Montr=E9al....

---> Val=E9rie Lamontagne - a Montr=E9al artist, freelance art critic, an=
d
curator, will present the collectively produced online zine MobileGaze wh=
ich
looks at new media arts, providing in-depth online video interviews with
media artists, and live Webcast events; and Location / Dislocation, a
net.art exhibition, curated in collaboration with Sylvie Parent, and
presented in the context of the Saison du Qu=E9bec =E0 New York at the Ne=
w
Museum of Contemporary Art.Val=E9rie will also discuss the current show o=
nline
at MobileGaze "Matter + Memory".

---> Sylvie Parent is a free lance curator and art critic. She was editor=
 of
the CIAC Electronic Magazine (Centre international d'art contemporain de
Montr=E9al) from 1997 to 2001, an on-line publication dedicated to the
promotion of net.art, and curated the net.art component of the Biennale d=
e
Montr=E9al in 2000. Last year she co-curated Location/Dislocation with Va=
l=E9rie
Lamontagne, and is currently engaged in investigating the history of web =
art
in Qu=E9bec, and artistic content for mobile phones and pda's. Sylvie wil=
l
discuss the importance of an historical point of view on web art, and
consider projects that had less visibility on the web for reasons of
geography, networking, language, etc.

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