I’m proud to say that I designed the exhibition web site and helped three of the artists (Chong, Sigurdardottir and Tanaka) get their stuff online.

Press release below:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, May 25, 2005

CONTACT
Kevin McGarry, Rhizome.org
Phone: 212.219.1288 X220
Email: kevin@rhizome.org

NEW YORK, NY — Rhizome.org is pleased to announce the opening of City/Observer, curated by Yukie Kamiya, Associate Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. City/Observer is the fourth online exhibition of works curated from the Rhizome ArtBase, an archive of over 1500 new media artworks established in 1999.

link to City/Observer

City/Observer presents projects by a group of international artists, AUDC (US), Heman Chong (Singapore), Katrin Sigurdardottir (Iceland), the collaboration of Aisling O’Beirn (Ireland) and Marjetica Potrc (Slovenia), and Koki Tanaka (Japan), who take the cities they live and work in as the subjects of their art practice. Rather than interrogating “the city” as an ideological construct or manifestation, these artists organize their subjective experiences as residents to reveal the distinct, yet connected, characters of their surrounding structures, societies and situations—and articulate some effects of making art in a global world.

Three of the artists — Chong, Sigurdardottir, and Tanaka — included in City/Observer have never before situated their work on the Internet. Their offline practices have been transposed to the Web as an experiment initiated by Kamiya, who remarked that, “it was fascinating to see how the artists approached the Internet as a unique, limitless place, and how these projects grounded in experiences of physical cities interfaced with a foreign, virtual terrain.” Kevin McGarry, Content Coordinator for Rhizome.org commented that, “City/Observer is not only several of the artists’ but also Kamiya’s first time staging an exhibition on the Internet. Through this exhibition she has successfully framed the Web as a site that is informed by unique urbanisms and politics, which at times mirror, overlap and confront those of physical territories.”

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Rhizome Exhibitions is a program begun in November 2004, which invites international artists, curators, and writers to curate online exhibitions from works in the ArtBase.

http://rhizome.org/art/exhibition

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