I am off to Montreal tomorrow to set up a show at Espace Videographe. The show will feature “88 Constellations for Wittgenstein” and four older internet pieces. I am also doing a new slide piece for the windows of the building. The opening is on Thursday, May 7 and I am very pleased that my old friend Nelson Henricks will be hosting a discussion about the work.

There is a publication for this show with an excellent essay by Vancouver artist/writer Marina Roy called “Invisible Hands” that talks about “88 Constellations” and “A is for Apple”. I have been working with Marina and her husband Graham Meisner for the last few years on a new project based on a book that Marina wrote called “Sign after the X”.

I have now made professional looking copies of the CD-ROM that I will be sending out and distributing. Here is the cover:

‘88 Constellations’ has been included an internet project being put together by Blackflash Magazine that can be seen here.

88 Constellations for Wittgenstein will be included in the Media Art Exhibition as part of the FILE 2009 RIO that will take place at Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from March 10th to April 19th, 2009. I have participated in this festival a number of times before but haven’t been to Rio yet.

The New Genre Festival presented by Living Arts in Tulsa is presenting ‘A is for Apple’ as part of a program called [::ART.net::] Curated by J.D. McPherson.

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‘88 Constellations’ has been included in the HZ Net Gallery that is curated by Sachiko Hayashi. This magazine has excellent articles and curation. ‘A is for Apple’ was included in the first edition of this journal.

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‘Meanwhile’, an interactive, non-linear film I made in 2006 with my collaborators in the group ‘computer.says.no: Shelley Simmons, Chris Mendis and Jeff Howard has won an award at the CINEMA TOUS ECRANS, 14e Festival International du Film in Geneva Switzerland. Our piece won the Reflet d’Or of the best interactive multimedia fiction. The jury said that “The price is awarded to a piece of work that put the multimedia feature in the center of its conception and thus allows to develop a new narrative experience. This experience wanders from the inflexibility of  cinematic narration and of the interactive scenarii of video games.”

We are pretty chuffed and are trying to figure out how we can all get to Switzerland to use the €4000 in production services that comes with the prize.
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The project can be seen here; Meanwhile

I’m off to New York next week for an exhibition of ‘88 Constellations’ and ‘A is for Apple’ at the Pace University Digital Gallery. I will be talking on Thursday, November 13 at 6pm. I am showing my work with Michelle Gay who did her MFA years ago at NSCAD. New York should be a blast. Students from the Digital Projects class will be coming down for a class trip and we will be zipping around New York until Tuesday.

Pace University Digital Gallery

This is a blog of material related to the net.art piece: “88 Constellations for Wittgenstein (to be played with the Left Hand). I will be posting material here about the piece and inviting viewers to discuss and ask questions about the site. This project was started in 2004 and was completed in May 2008.