No Power to Push Up the Sky: Lana Lin

Lana Lin is a New York-based media artist who has interpreted histories in different cultural contexts, raising questions about translation and the processes of identification. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, China Taipei Film Archive, Taiwan, and the Festival de Femmes, Creteil, France. She has received numerous awards, including the New York State Council on the Arts, the US Fulbright Foundation, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Since 2001, she has been part of the collaborative team Lin + Lam.

No Power to Push Up the Sky presents fifteen people translating a controversial interview with student protest leader Chai Ling, conducted one week before the Tiananmen Square massacre, Beijing, 1989. Multiple narratives, conflicting positions, and overarching uncertainty demonstrate the complexities of locating meaning across language, culture, and politics.

For more information visit: http://www.strangerbaby.info. No Power to Push Up the Sky requires Quicktime 7 or later and a DSL/Cable connection or faster.

Unattended Body: Arzu Ozkal Telhan

Arzu Ozkal Telhan is a Turkish born media artist whose recent work reflects on social and political conditions in the "third world" and the US. Ozkal Telhan's performances involve public participation that encourages her audience to subvert accepted social practice - at least - for a moment. Her work has been shown in Barcelona, Cologne, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Pittsburgh (PA) and Buffalo (NY).

Unattended Body mainly discusses how an existence at 'it's most banal' can be simply perceived as a disturbance or a potential threat if it does not act in its expected way for society.

The body is mute. It stands still, avoids eye contact and minimizes any reference that relates it to something or somewhere. No shopping cart at the grocery store, no gun or money bag at the bank, no plastic container at the gas station, no filthy clothes or disturbing odor, no sign for an emergency health problem, just a body - obviously a human body - sitting.

For more information visit: http://contrary.info/ .

Mouthpiece #2: Deva Eveland

Deva Eveland is a Chicago artist who creates performance based videos, installations, conceptual projects, and live art manifestations. His work has been shown in a number of galleries and festivals across the United States and Canada. He has recently been awarded a 2006 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in New Performance Forms. His Mouthpiece #2‚ is a video/performance that eloquently intersects the body and its sensations with the larger categories of nationalism, patriotism and warfare.

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International Airport Montello: eteam

eteam’s members are Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger. Their work is guided by a process of understanding the circumstances and possibilities of a specific place or site. They have worked in such unusual sites as skyscrapers, public parks, the internet and the desert. Their projects have been recently featured in exhibitions at the P.S.1 and Momenta in New York City; the Soap Factory in Minneapolis; Grizedale Arts in England; MUMOK in Vienna; and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Spain, among other places.

International Airport Montello is a collaboration between the eteam and the people of Montello, Nevada. The project uses as canvas a 10-acre piece of land that eteam purchased in an auction on eBay.com near the town of Montello. It includes the production of events and memories about an abandoned airstrip (approximately 6,000 feet long and located nearby eteam’s land) to make of it local cultural paradigm. The project’s construction wiki-website is operated by eteam and the people of Montello.

For more information visit: http://www.meineigenheim.org

Pandemic Rooms: Jason Nelson

While fearful of the ways seasons don't change in tropical Queensland Australia, Jason hides in a cave-like office and makes odd creatures. His net artworks and digital poetics have appeared in galleries and journals (both real and virtually real) across the world.

With the world obsessed with the bird flu and whole industries being created preparing the corporate world for reduced work forces and face mask dress codes, I’ve created a new net artwork centering around all things pandemic. This artwork is built around the notion of empty rooms, defunct institutions whose occupants are gone. We are in love with the idea of catastrophic change, always watching for those invisible viral creatures filtering humanity.

For more information visit : http://www.secrettechnology.com

All the News that's Fit to Print: Jody Zelen

Jody Zelen is an artist living in Los Angeles, California. She works in many media simultaneously making photographs, installations, net art, public art, as well as artists’ books that explore the subject of the urban environment. She employs media-generated representations of contemporary and historic cities as raw material for aesthetic and social investigations.

All the News that’s Fit to Print uses the daily New York Times as its point of departure. It explores the relationship between how the news and the images that accompany headline stories are presented online and imprint. The lines between what is hard news and what is filler blur. The juxtapositions become wrong, sad, funny, inexplicable, and often to the point. The headline and image are presented in conjunction with the daily paper’s image.

One is drawn to the initial layout, the language of the headline and to the sensationalism of the image.

For more information visit : http://www.jodyzellen.com

ReBurger: The Yes Men, Patrick Lichty

The Yes Men have established a near legendary track as cultural saboteurs. Their ‘Identity Correction’ strategy has most notably included the WTO. The Yes Men, a movie, follows a couple of anti-corporate activist-pranksters as they impersonate World Trade Organization spokesmen on TV and at business conferences around the world. Andy and Mike—a couple of semi-employed, middle-class (at best) activists with only thrift-store clothes and no formal economics training—posed as spokespeople for the World Trade Organization. ReBurger is a mock industrial video. In it, a scheme for a proposed food sustainability program by McDonald’s is unveiled, but there’s a catch...

For more information visit : http://www.theyesmen.org . ReBurger requires Quicktime 7 or later and a DSL/Cable connection or faster.

Hippopotamus: Peiyun Lee

Peiyun Lee is a Taiwan born artist. Her projects investigate language, culture and social conditions in Taiwan and the USA. She received her MFA from State University of New York at Buffalo in 2005. Recently relocated to Taipei Taiwan, she is currently teaching in National Taiwan University of Arts, department of Multimedia and Animation Arts. Her installations and performances have been exhibited in Buffalo NY, Ontario Canada and Taipei Taiwan.

Hippopotamus is a video document of a performance where Peiyun Lee practices the English pronunciation of letters A to Z.

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