01.26.05 Anne Galloway 02.23.05 Andy Deck and Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga 03.30.05 Pete Gomes, Jeff Knowlton/Naomi Spellman 04.27.05 Julian Bleecker, Elizabeth Goodman, Greyworld, Teri Rueb and Anne Galloway (moderator)

Wednesday, February 23
7:00 p.m.
Bill Bordy Theatre
216 Tremont St.
Free and open to the public.

Andy Deck
http://www.artcontext.org

Andy Deck is a media artist specializing in Internet art. His work addresses the politics and aesthetics of collaboration, interactivity, software, and independent media. Deck started making what he has called "public art for the Internet" in 1994. Since then he has been at the forefront of aesthetic research into the creative possibilities of the Internet as a medium. In addition to being an image producer, he now acts as a collaborator, cyberspace architect, and programmer. His aesthetic program seeks a cultural break from the modernization of passive consumerism. Using the site ARTCONTEXT.NET, he combines code, text, and image, demonstrating new patterns of participation and control that distinguish online presence and representation from previous artistic practices.

Deck collaborates with the environmentalist arts organization Transnational Temps and with the Athens-based arts collective, Personal Cinema. In addition to numerous online exhibitions, his work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Barcelona), PS1-MoMA (NYC), Net_Condition (ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany), and the Moving Image Gallery (NYC). Further recognition and awards include mention at Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), a Webby Award nomination, Art Futura (Spain), and a VIDA LIFE 4.0 prize (Spain). Deck received his MFA in Computer Art at School of Visual Arts, NYC, and he completed post-graduate studies at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. He has taught at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Sarah Lawrence College, and New York University. Currently, he teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga
http://www.ambriente.com

Ricardo Miranda Zuniga grew up between Nicaragua, and San Francisco. Although his formal education has been within the borders of the United States, his personal perspectives and ideology have been molded by a bicultural reality, consisting of such polar elements as Disneyland and the Nicaraguan Leftist Revolutionary movement. A bicultural upbringing tied to a multidisciplinary education has lead to work that attempts to cultivate interaction with the viewer and may include performance, sculpture, video and audio, the Internet or a combination of all. The principle behind the work is communication as a creative process.