CYNTHIA LAWSON JARAMILLO . DINA KELBERMAN . EVAN ROTH
Launching February 1 | crosstalkexhibition.com
Participate & shape the experience: February 1st—3rd
CrossTalk: Speech Acts & Interference in Networked Art is an experimental online exhibition that explores interference as a metaphor for trends in contemporary net art. Artists Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, Dina Kelberman and Evan Roth present works that create visual interference in the virtual realm by appropriating and re-presenting the content of multiple other Internet users. Using diverse but poetic tactics, each artist disrupts and deconstructs that content, opening it up to new meanings.
This interference is echoed in the experimental format of CrossTalk, which places the virtual gallery in the same browser window as a real-time virtual critique. Over the course of three days, February 1st—3rd, the public is invited to log on at crosstalkexhibition.com, view the artworks, register on the message board and participate in an open, unmoderated critique. Similar to a piece of of software, the CrossTalk model sets up conditions and variables that allow viewers to become users and makers of the exhibition. The ultimate message of the show will be shaped by those who participate.
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CrossTalk: Speech Acts and Interference in Networked Art is curated, designed and programmed by Zach Pearl. It is the culmination of his thesis research for the anticipated receipt of an MFA in Criticism & Curatorial Practice from OCAD University this Spring. Zach's project is unique in the fact that it will be the first completely virtual exhibition in the graduate program's history.
This thesis project has been advised thus far by Paula Gardner, Ph.D. (primary), Caroline Langill, Ph.D. and David Cecchetto, Ph. D.
Made possible in part by the generous support of the Graduate Studies Department at OCAD University.
