PARTICIPANTS
Shu Lea Cheang

Over the past few years media installation artist and filmmaker Shu Lea Cheang has created a number of large-scale net installations that traverse actual and virtual spaces. These include Bowling Alley (1995), which net-links a local bowling lane with the Walker Art Center's gallery space and a cyber-bowl site; Buy One Get One (1997) which locates net-access in Africa and Asia with a bento digi-suitcase; and Brandon, the Guggenheim Museum's first commission of a web art project.

Cheang's feature films include Fresh Kill, which has been screened at the Berlin International Film Festival (1994) and the Whitney Museum Biennale (1995); and I.K.U: a Japanese cyber-porn feature film released in 2000. Her current projects include Baby Play the first of three Net installations based on a fictional scenario set in the year 2030; and

Kingdom of Piracy an online open work space exploring piracy as the net's ultimate art form (co-curated with Armin Medosch and Yukiko Shikata).

    Symposium Abstract: When psychotics go out of their bodies where do they go?

    SERVERED- we float. IN THE AIRLESS AIRSPACE. The portal is set in motion as we hard

    driving our haunted shell bodies. Circuited, bodyparts are our last hold of ID-entification. The hyperlink is deemed obsolete.

    WIRELESS, we seek for airported networking. Anticipating system shutdown, we

    congregate in memory in the greenfield. SOFTLY PRESS THE BELLY BUTTON for system restart.

    In this panel, I would show 3 of my petite net art sites: Expand (2001), STOP (2002), apt (2002), and also discuss my upcoming projects in 2002: DRIVE BY DINING, wireless dinner with International Browserday, May, Amsterdam; and THE FIELD (working title), trading garlic gloves for wireless network, August, New York City

    LINK:

    Expand

    http://www.telepolis.de/english/kunst/nk/shopping/default.html

    STOP

    http://www.shine02.org/STOP

    apt

    http://www.shrink.li/shrink/art/apt_shulea/