Alex Galloway
New York, NY
Alex Galloway is a programmer, author, and the former director of content and technology at the online art platform Rhizome.org. He is a founding member of the software collective RSG, whose first work is Carnivore, a data surveillance project based on FBI software of the same name. His previous work, Prepared Playstation, is included in the survey exhibition Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-based Art at Pace Wildenstein Gallery. He has also exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, White Columns, and PS1, all in New York City, and internationally at the Intercommunication Center in Tokyo, Transmediale in Berlin, and The ICA in London. His first book, Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization, was published in 2004 by MIT Press. He is an assistant professor at New York University.
Want
Want is a six-channel video installation about contemporary desire. Want explores the current climate of society over-stimulated by the bombardment of technological instant gratification, and the very definite, yet-to-be-revealed implications and issues of accountability and responsibility surrounding virtuality. Here, the Internet’s underbelly is exposed; pushing the quiet, anonymous behavior that flourishes in cyberspace into public space, forcing us to reevaluate this behavior as if it were to take place in the physical community. The life-sized video displays use custom software to monitor real time Internet searches. When the software finds a programmed keyword, it triggers a video clip of one of several actors/avatars who translates the virtual request to reality. The videos are triggered almost concurrently, causing the voiced requests to overlap. The result is an audio-visual cacophony of desire; an online echo chamber of warped reality.
MTAA + RSG
AlexGalloway is a programmer, author, and the former director of content and technology at the online art platform Rhizome.org. He is a founding member of the software collective,RSG, whose first work is Carnivore, a data surveillance project based on,FBI,software of the same name. His previous work, Prepared Playstation, is included in the survey exhibition Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-based Art at Pace Wildenstein Gallery. He has also exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, White Columns, and PS1, all in New York City, and internationally at the Intercommunication Center in Tokyo, Transmediale in Berlin, and The,ICA,in London. His first book,,Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization, was published in 2004 by,MIT,Press. He is an assistant professor at New York University.
,Artists,Michael,Sarff and,Timothy,Whidden formed,MTAA,in 1996 and soon after began to explore the Internet, video, software and sculpture as mediums for their conceptual art. The duo’s exhibition history includes group shows and screenings at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Postmasters Gallery and Artists Space all in New York City, and at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. International exhibitions include the Seoul Net & Film Festival in Korea and Videozone2: The 2nd International Video Art Biennial in Israel. In,New Media Art,(Taschen, 2006), authors Mark Tribe and Reena Jana describe,MTAA’s,One Year Performance Video (a.k.a. samHsiehUpdate),as ”a deftly transparent demonstration of new media’s ability to manipulate our perceptions of time.” The collaboration has earned grants, commissions, and awards from Rhizome.org, Eyebeam, New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc. and The Whitney Museum of American Art.
Michael Sarff
Brooklyn, NY
Artists Michael Sarff and Timothy Whidden formed MTAA in 1996 and soon after began to explore the Internet, video, software and sculpture as mediums for their conceptual art. The duo’s exhibition history includes group shows and screenings at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Postmasters Gallery and Artists Space all in New York City, and at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. International exhibitions include the Seoul Net & Film Festival in Korea and Videozone2: The 2nd International Video Art Biennial in Israel. In New Media Art (Taschen, 2006), authors Mark Tribe and Reena Jana describe MTAA’s One Year Performance Video (a.k.a. samHsiehUpdate) as ”a deftly transparent demonstration of new media’s ability to manipulate our perceptions of time.” The collaboration has earned grants, commissions, and awards from Rhizome.org, Eyebeam, New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc. and The Whitney Museum of American Art.
Timothy Whidden
Brooklyn, NY
Artists Timothy Whidden and Michael Sarff formed MTAA in 1996 and soon after began to explore the Internet, video, software and sculpture as mediums for their conceptual art. The duo’s exhibition history includes group shows and screenings at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Postmasters Gallery and Artists Space all in New York City, and at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. International exhibitions include the Seoul Net & Film Festival in Korea and Videozone2: The 2nd International Video Art Biennial in Israel. In New Media Art (Taschen, 2006), authors Mark Tribe and Reena Jana describe MTAA’s One Year Performance Video (a.k.a. samHsiehUpdate) as ”a deftly transparent demonstration of new media’s ability to manipulate our perceptions of time.” The collaboration has earned grants, commissions, and awards from Rhizome.org, Eyebeam, New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc. and The Whitney Museum of American Art.