[spectre] "Mapping Transitions" Net Art Exhibition, Boulder/USA

[kendall@altx.com]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

"Mapping Transitions" Internet Art Exhibition Scheduled for Colorado
Conference
Contact: Kendall Pata kendall@altx.com
August 30, 2002

THE DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER, IN
CONJUNCTION WITH THE ATLAS CAMPUS-WIDE TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE AND THE ALT-X
DIGITAL ARTS FOUNDATION, ANNOUNCES UPCOMING INTERNET ART EXHIBITION

BOULDER, Colorado (August 30, 2002) -- The "Rethinking the Visual: New
Technologies in the Context of Society and Culture" conference, to be held
September 13-15, 2002, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will open
with an Internet art forum and online exhibition at the Department of Fine
Arts.  The exhibition, entitled "Mapping Transitions", will be co-curated
by CU-Boulder digital art professor Mark Amerika and Christiane Paul,
Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Both the conference and exhibition web sites can be accessed at
http://www.altx.com/visual

The exhibition consists of 3 newly commissioned pieces from Internet
artists whose work was selected for the Whitney Biennial 2002. The artists
participating in this event are Mary Flanagan, Lisa Jevbratt, and John
Klima. The exhibition will open on September 4, 2002, and Ms. Paul and all
of the artists will demonstrate their work to the public on the opening
night of the conference in Boulder.

"As an interactive, dynamic, customizable, and participatory electronic
mass medium, the Internet has challenged traditional notions of art and
the artist, requiring reconsideration of the aesthetics, social context,
and cultural significance of 'visual art' as we know it," said the
curators. "The title 'Mapping Transitions' refers to both the actual
process of giving visual form to different kinds of data and data flow,
and to the transitions between more traditional forms of visual arts and
this new medium."

In addition to the opening of the Internet art forum and exhibition, the
conference has invited stellar plenary speakers whose presentations will
reflect on visual culture from their own perspectives -- including art
history, anthropology, mass communication, theology, and folklore -- as
well as address some of the issues raised by the Internet Art work
exhibited in the "Mapping Transitions" forum. Speakers include Joanna
Drucker, W.J.T. Mitchell, Rod Coover, Faye Ginsberg, and Steve Jones.

Funding for the conference and Internet art forum has been provided by
University of Colorado's ATLAS (Alliance for Technology, Learning, and
Society) program, the University of Colorado's Department of Fine Arts,
and the Alt-X Digital Arts Foundation.

For more information on the "Rethinking the Visual: New Technologies in
the Context of Society and Culture" conference or the "Mapping
Transitions" Internet art forum, please send email to Kendall Pata at
kendall@altx.com
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