TY - ADVS
T1 - Interventions:
T2 - Interventions: Engaging the Body Politic Exhibition
A2 - Leishman, Donna
N1 - “Front” (2014) creative practice originally commissioned by ALT-W / Creative Scotland / Scottish Government and Project Ginsberg, was peer reviewed and curated into this ELO 2015 Festival which complimented the academic conference, as part of a theme of exhibiting Electronic literature that intervenes in our political world: the environment, social justice, surveillance and more.
PY - 2015/5/7
Y1 - 2015/5/7
N2 - The Interventions exhibition features works that engage with contemporary cultural discourse and political reality, challenging audiences to consider digital artifacts and practices that reflect and intervene in matters of the environment, social justice, and our relation to the habitus. The program also includes a presentation of works originally made for 3D CAVEs adapted for the Oculus Rift, and in Cinemateket a performance of a “code opera” and screenings of a film about the field of electronic literature.
Works presented in this exhibition include “Inside the Distance” by Sharon Daniel (US), “The End: Death in Seven Colors” by David Clark (CA), “The Wandering: An Interactive Poetry Robot!” by Jason Nelson (AU), “Front” by Donna Leishman (UK), “Faceless Patrons” by Andreas Zingerle (AT) and Linda Kronman (AT), “Death of an Alchemist” by Chris Rodley (AU) and Andrew Burrell (AU), “Cave Classics on Oculus Rift” by Damon Baker (US), “Shy Nag: A Generated Code Opera” by Chris Funkhouser (US), Sonny Rae Tempest (US), and Louis Wells (US), and “The Exquisite Corpus: Issues in Electronic Literature” by Talan Memmott (US).
AB - The Interventions exhibition features works that engage with contemporary cultural discourse and political reality, challenging audiences to consider digital artifacts and practices that reflect and intervene in matters of the environment, social justice, and our relation to the habitus. The program also includes a presentation of works originally made for 3D CAVEs adapted for the Oculus Rift, and in Cinemateket a performance of a “code opera” and screenings of a film about the field of electronic literature.
Works presented in this exhibition include “Inside the Distance” by Sharon Daniel (US), “The End: Death in Seven Colors” by David Clark (CA), “The Wandering: An Interactive Poetry Robot!” by Jason Nelson (AU), “Front” by Donna Leishman (UK), “Faceless Patrons” by Andreas Zingerle (AT) and Linda Kronman (AT), “Death of an Alchemist” by Chris Rodley (AU) and Andrew Burrell (AU), “Cave Classics on Oculus Rift” by Damon Baker (US), “Shy Nag: A Generated Code Opera” by Chris Funkhouser (US), Sonny Rae Tempest (US), and Louis Wells (US), and “The Exquisite Corpus: Issues in Electronic Literature” by Talan Memmott (US).
KW - Politics
KW - Social Justice
KW - Surveillance
KW - Electronic Literature
KW - Selfies
M3 - Exhibition
PB - ELMCIP, Irish Research Council and the European Commission
CY - Galway
Y2 - 7 May 2015 through 14 May 2015
ER -