Thundergulch in collaboration with Rhizome.org at New York University, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Film Center Sponsored by the Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University Thundergulch Dialogues Database Cultures Thursday, May 23rd, 7:00 PM, 2002 --- FREE New York University, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Film Center, Room 102, 36 East Eight Street between University Place and Greene Street Directions: Take N/R to 8th Street or the A/C/E/F to West 4th Street Featuring: JENNIFER and KEVIN MCCOY, New Media Artists W. BRADFORD PALEY, Interface Designer/Artist, Founder of Digital Image Design JÉRÔME SIMÉON, Computer Scientist, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies MARK TRIBE, Artist, Curator, Founder and Director of Rhizome.org WAYNE ASHLEY, Moderator, Guest Curator, Thundergulch THUNDERGULCH, the new media initiative of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, is pleased to present "Database Cultures." At the turn of the century, the computer database has become the dominant storage system, enabling a variety of networked individuals to organize, search, retrieve, and display information about everything from chat-room gossip to the outbreak of diseases in the country's hospitals. Organized by guest curator, Wayne Ashley, five panelists discuss the challenges of using a database as the generative engine behind their art work, creating alternative systems that reveal the poetic, critical, and community-building possibilities of manipulating and reconstituting data. Speakers include Kevin and Jennifer McCoy, Mark Tribe, Brad Paley, and Jérôme Siméon. _______________ S P E A K E R S: JENNIFER AND KEVIN MCCOY are new media artists. Their work plays upon the capacity of new technology to fragment, store, and analyze audio and video material. Resulting projects include installations, performances, and net art that explore ideas of genre, interactivity, and automation. Their work has been exhibited internationally. In New York they have shown at P.S.1, Postmasters Gallery, The New Museum, and The Swiss Institute. W. BRADFORD PALEY is an artist and interaction designer whose goal in both worlds is the visual interpretation of complex hidden phenomena. He did his first photography in 1968, his first computer imagery in 1973, and founded Digital Image Design Incorporated in 1982. He has shown at the Museum of Modern Art, and his designs are at work every day in the hands of brokers on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. He speaks frequently on the subject of interaction design and pursues projects where design inspires art and art informs the design. MARK TRIBE is an artist and curator whose interests lie at the intersection of emerging technologies and contemporary art. He is the founder and executive director of Rhizome.org, an online platform for the international new media art community. His latest art project, Revelation 1.0 (commissioned by Amnesty International), looks at the aesthetic armature of the Amnesty USA web site by stripping away its text and graphics, leaving only blocks of color and photographic images. JÉRÔME SIMÉON is a researcher at Bell Labs, a division of Lucent Technologies. He is a member of the Network Data and Services Research Department. His research interests revolve structuring, storing, and exchanging information over the Internet, XML, the Semantic Web, and data integration. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reservations are not required but for further information please contact Wayne Ashley, Guest Curator, Thundergulch at (212)219-9401 x106, washley007@yahoo.com, or Erin Donnelly, Visual and Media Arts Program Associate, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council at (212)219-9401 x107 or edonnelly@lmcc.net Support for Thundergulch audience development is provided by American Express Company. Funding for Thundergulch is generously provided by Cowles Charitable Trust, Experimental Television Center, the Greenwall Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation. This project is made possible, in part, with public funds from the Electronic Media and Film Program and the Media Arts Technical Assistance Fund of the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Thundergulch The new media arts initiative of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Rhizome.org is an online platform for the global new media art community. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that engages new technologies in meaningful ways. They foster innovation and inclusiveness in everything they do. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council 145 Hudson Street, Suite 801, New York, NY 10013 212-219-9401 212-219-2058 fax www.lmcc.net www.thundergulch.org Liz Thompson, Executive Director Moukhtar Kocache, Director of Visual & Media Arts Erin Donnelly, Visual & Media Arts Program Associate Wayne Ashley, Guest Curator, Thundergulch