*For Immediate Release*
November 10, 2001
“Taystes”, a new web-based work by New York
artist Jenny Marketou
http://www.taystes.net
will premier as an interactive installation,
commissioned by:
Cornerhouse Gallery / Futuresonic Festival,
Manchester, UK
“Broken Channel” exhibition
15 November - 21 December, 2001
http://www.cornerhouse.org
http://www.futuresonic.com
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Big Brother is Watching you...
“TaystesROOM” will have its world premier at the
exhibition “BROKEN CHANNEL”, at Cornerhouse
Gallery, UK in association with FUTURESONIC
(Manchester’s festival of electronic and sonic
arts). This exhibition will also feature the
work of 2 other artists: Harun Farocki and Ravi
Deepres. The three artists examine a world of
high tech surveillance and voyeurism whether
sinister and controlling or personal and erotic.
For the exhibition, New York based artist, Jenny
Marketou, has constructed “taystesroom”, an
elaborate, interactive installation; it uses
mirrors and the internet to create a voyeuristic
arena. The installation evokes the erotic tension
of watching and being watched, seeing and being
seen, tracking and being tracked; and explores
the new vectors of desire that erupt in an
increasingly technological and networked
surveillance of voyeurs .
The taystes tool has a sonic online component
which is dynamically generated as the application
extracts and generates sounds (in real time)
while it is searching for taysty tid bits of
information in the surveillance databody, not
unlike a detective, sifting through the body of
evidence.
Special Acknowledgements:
Installation Design: Andreas Angelidakis
(architect, Greece)
Sound Component: Ile Cvetkoski (net.artist,
Macedonia)
Special thanks to HULL TIME BASED ARTS for their
generous support of the sonic component of
Taystesroom. http://www.timebase.org/
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About the artist:
Jenny Marketou is a New York based artist. She
has been working in different media, including
photography,video, video events involving dj’s
and performers, public performances, computer
installations, using internet, telepresence
environments and
interfaces, networking technologies.and
artificial smells. Her work has been shown
internationally including “CTRL [SPACE], ZKM,
Karlsruhe, “Markers Art / Re:Duchamp Exhibition”
49 Venice Biennial, Italy; Sao Paolo Biennial;
Net_Condition, ZKM Karlsruhe, Manifesta I,
Rotterdam; “Tenacity”, Swiss Institute, NYC. Her
lectures include: “Invencao”, Sao Paolo, Brasil;
at MoCA, LA; Her grants + artist
residencies include: ART OMI, MECAD, Barcelona,
Banff Center, Canada; She is readying herself for
“Art Hack: Open Source Lounge” at Media Z Lounge
(New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC) with Steve
Dietz, Walker Art Center, and Anne Barlow, New
Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC). Her work has
been reviewed and published in: Speigel, Flash
Art, El Pais, Artbyte, NY Times, Art Presse, and
Temaceleste among others.
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for further information contact either:
Cornerhouse Gallery (Jude Holmes) tel:
0161.200.1517
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
or Jenny Marketou email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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best regards,
Cristine Wang
mobile: 917.318.0081
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://cristine.org
