[artinfo] V2_: Model Behaviour, interactive installations (fwd)

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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:26:50 +0100
From: marjolein@v2.nl
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Subject: V2_: Model Behaviour, interactive installations

Model Behaviour
Interactive installations by Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead (GB)
Opening: Friday 25th January 2002, 18.00 hours (with the presence of the
artists)
Date: 26th January  10th February 2002
Open: 12.00  18.00 hours, closed Monday 4th February 2002
Admission: =80 3,50
Location: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam

=01=91Driving through Las Vegas=92
Choose your own soundtrack by using a patch panel and a headphone, while
cruising the main strip of Las Vegas. Part road movie, part 3D driving
game. DIY cinema for devotees.

=01=91CNN Interactive just got more interactive=92
Infotainment ad absurdum: add a variety of soundtracks to the monolithic
CNN Interactive website in an attempt to further mediate a moment of
infotainment -to bring a cinematic conceit to this ever changing global
news feed. CNN Interactive just got more interactive highlights the thin
lines between fact and fiction, news making and entertainment.

=01=91Telephony=92
Visitors can dial into a wall based grid of 42 Siemens mobile telephones,
which in turn begin to call each other and create a piece of 'music.' Each
phone has been individually programmed with a different ringtone. The more
people who dial into the work, the more layered the audio becomes.

Biographies:
Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead have been working with video and sound since
1991. More recently they have been exploring the possibilities of the
Internet and screen based multimedia to create navigable or user led
environments. Many of their internet-based works seek to manipulate
existing data (websites, sound tracks, ring tones) in surprising, critical
and humorous ways. The latter often engenders a feeling of estrangement in
the visitor.

Recent exhibitions include =01=91010101 Art in Technological Times=92 at Th=
e
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco and =01=91Art & Money Online=92 at Tate=
 Britain.

Jon Thomson studied BA Fine Art in Leicester and PG diploma Electronic
Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee and currently
lectures at The Slade School of Fine Art in London.

Alison Craighead studied painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art
in Dundee and is currently a researcher into web specific art at the
University of Westminster.

More info: http://www.v2.nl/2002 and on http://www.thomson-craighead.net/

Concept and production: V2_Organisatie, Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotter=
dam

=01=91Model Behaviour=92 is supported by: Cultural Affairs, City of Rotterd=
am,
Ministry of OC&W, Luna Internet, Siemens, KPN Mobile and The British
Council. The works are provided on Courtesy Mobile Home, London