RESIDENCES
VIRTUAL RESIDENCIE
Deanne Achong
a
bird in the google
http://residente.studioxx.org/deanne/
Dates: Febuary-March 2005
Length : 8 weeks
Format: interactive website
" A bird in the house means death in the house"
-- Do you know this superstition? Have any stories about it?
Deanne Achong is an artist doing a research/web production
project which looks at various stories about birds. She will
be collecting stories, and images for use in a project sponsored
by STUDIOXX as part of a virtual residency. If you have any
stories and/or images (or even video clips) you would be willing
to contribute, please visit studioxx.org. Thematically, they
do not need to be strictly restrained to the realm of superstitious
tales.
If you are interested in contributing to this project, let
the artist know here : http://residente.studioxx.org/deanne/
a bird in the google will focus on the intersection
of various narratives about birds and exploring the technology
of delivering this narrative. The stories will be culled from
various sources, a blend of fiction, information found on
the web and material gathered from inviting participants to
send me pictures, video clips and stories about birds. I am
particularly interested in tales of superstition connected
with birds, although this is not the only point of interest.
A database
will be created from which random or selected stories will
be displayed along with the imagery. Flash will be used to
interpret the video and other imagery, with an interest in
using the process of degeneration of the image as a feature,
rather than a negative or mistake. Also, the concept of slowness
is something I want to examine, to remember that broad-band
access is not yet everywhere.
Deanne Achong is a Vancouver based
artist. She is interested in the web for a bundle of reasons,
and keeps hoping to be one day outwit google. She has exhibited
her work, online and off, in Canada, the US, Europe and the
Caribbean. She has a BFA from NSCAD and an MFA from UBC.
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