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        ADRIENE JENIK

      Adriene Jenik is a telecommunications media artist whose diverse artistic projects straddle and trouble the borders between art and popular culture. Her video productions include the internationally exhibited video short, What's the Difference Between a Yam & a Sweet Potato? (with J. Evan Dunlap), and the award-winning live satellite TV broadcast, EL NAFTAZTECA: Cyber-Aztec TV for 2000 A.D. (with Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes).

      Jenikšs computer-based interactive projects include interactive road movie MAUVE DESERT: A CD-ROM Translation. Based on the novel Le Désert Mauve by Nicole Brossard, the project has been screened at, among many others, the Toronto International Film Festival, 2nd Annual Digital Storytelling Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, and Centro Nacionál de las Artes. DESKTOP THEATER, Jenikšs current project, is a series of live theatrical interventions and activities in public visual chat rooms developed with Lisa Brenneis. Inaugurated with waitingforgodot.com in 1997, DESKTOP THEATER has continued with weekly experiments and "doubly-live" presentations at venues including Digital Arts & Culture '99 in Atlanta, FutureScreen '99 in Sydney, Australia, and Urban Futures 2000 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

      Jenik's work has been reviewed and discussed in such publications as Parachute, The Independent, Jumpcut, The Village Voice, Afterimage, Art Papers, Artlink, Modern Fiction, Salon Magazine and The New York Times Online. In addition, her creative

      writing and essays have been published in High Performance, Felix, The L.A. Weekly, Off Video, Heresies, and The Utne Reader. Her awards include a 1997 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in New Media, and most recently, a Franklin Furnace Archives commission for the 2001 Future of the Present internet performance series.