[spectre] "Project Features" spotlights Emily Hermant

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"Project Features"
http://features.nmartproject.net <>
is happy to present during April 2005
its 4th feature:
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Emily Hermant (Canada) 
and her interactive netart piece, entitled:
"The Lies Project"
 
Project statement 
 
Based on the artist's previous body of work, which investigated notions of exaggeration, fabrication, embellishment and tall-tell-tale-telling--LYING IN REAL TIME--this web-based work examines the act of lying as it applies to cyberspace. The Lies Project suggests fabrication or embellishment as a currency in the construction of everyday culture. 
 
The Lies Project is an interactive web-site where viewers are invited to enter a virtual lying booth and submit their lies. Participant submissions continually generate woven networks of lies that in turn produce and sustain a virtual community. However, The Lies Project intends to make systematic alterations to the virtual world(s) that these lies attempt to construct--to question and challenge the power structures that are built with these words and that in turn govern our everyday interactions. 
 
About the artist 
Born in Toronto, Canada in 1980, Emily Hermant is an award-winning textile and installation artist. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction, in Studio Arts [Concentration: Fibres] and Religion, from Concordia University. Hermant's work has been shown in Canada and the USA and her cyber-work has been shown internationally. Hermant's recent professional activity include a thematic residency for Art's Birthday Festival at Studio XX in Montreal and contributor to Reverie: NoiseCity, a virtual urban landscape on the web organized by the Western Front Society and aaeol in Vancouver, Canada. 
 
Hermant's current research investigates ways of integrating traditional notions of craft and textile production with the fastly evolving fields of digital technologies and new medias. Hermant is particularly interested in how traditional techniques such as embroidery, burnout and weaving used to create a 'personal' space find their parallels in the hyper text mark-up and other languages of virtual space. Hermant now lives and works in Montreal. 
 
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"Project Features"
http://features.nmartproject.net <>
which will feature during 2005 each month
another exciting art project
using net based media for artistic expression.
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The 1st issue on http://features.nmartproject.net <>
was featuring in January 2005 -->
Doron Golan (USA)
and his streaming video
"Tale of Crow" (2004)
.
The 2nd issue was featuring in February 2005--->
Simon Fildes and Katrina McPherson (UK)
and their interactive piece, entitled:
"Ardnamurchan Zillij" (2004)
 
The 3rd issue was featuring in March 2005---> 
Mary Flanagan (USA) 
and her interactive net piece, entitled: 
"[six.circles]" (2004) 
 
more details on <http://features.nmartproject.net> 
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"Project Features"
http://features.nmartproject.net <>
is curated by Agricola de Cologne
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[NewMediaArtprojectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net <>
experimental platform for Art and New Media
operating from Cologne/Germany
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contacts and artists proposals:
info at nmartproject.net <>