The adminstrator used to be a person but slowly over the course of several years he became absorbed by his network tasks. Now he exists virtually. One might say he has tele-presence.

Pay no attention to that miniature man embedded in your PDA!

Chris Borkowksi is a media maker from Buffalo, NY that is now living and working in New York City. He has worked professionally as video editor, network administrator, media arts center Technical Director, and University instructor in digital arts. He has shown work internationally at various galleries and media festivals and has also performed a number of real-time audio and video pieces. He like sunsets and long walks in the park, the shape of pixels, social climbers, hackers, misfits and charlatans. His favorite colors are RGB and finds name dropping and writing his own bio the biggest turn off.

G.H. Hovagimyan is an experimental artist working in a variety of forms. He was one of the first artists in New York to start working with the Internet and new media in the early nineties. His work ranges from hypertext works to digital performance art, installations and HD video.

Recent Exhibitions: 2006 - Art Basel Miami, New York Video Festival, Video Dumbo, 1800 Frames, 2007 – CIRCA 07, PR, Coachella Arts Festival, Kuntsverein Stuttgart (Online), Pocket Films-Centre Pompidou, France

http://nujus.net/gh

http://spaghetti.nujus.net/rantapod

http://spaghetti.nujus.net/artDirt

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Jerome Joy is french composer and improviser. Experimentations and research in live systems, concerts and performances: instrumental, electronics, programmings and on-line systems. Involved in various collective and networked projects since 1995, he's continuously working on 'extended music': live music, live radiophony, live cinema, performances

Alan W. Moore – Personal Statement

Visiting Assistant Professor – Critical Theory & Contemporary Art

Ph.D., City University of New York, 2000

FAH 258

(813) 974-9252

amoore [at] arts.usf.edu & awm13579 [at] gmail.com

I am delighted to be here at the University of South Florida. The opportunities seem excellent in this institution which so cherishes research, and sharing them with the students I meet will be a great pleasure.

The conditions of creative production – the artist’s job – have changed dramatically in recent times. Artists are moving to the center of western knowledge economies. In order to assert their core values of creative expression, to create the changes we all want to see, and to build the other world that is possible, artists need to learn tactics that will help them retain their autonomy. My belief is that knowledge of art’s histories can give artists a toolkit to devise the strategies they will need.

Much of my conviction of the necessity of art history’s “local” tasks comes from my experience in 2005-06 at Kennesaw State University, where over the course of a year brave undergraduates built a website describing the “Artworlds of Atlanta .” (I reflected on this project as pedagogy at last year’s “Trans” Visual Culture conference at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.)

Students in my courses this year in Tampa will build a website which illuminates the University of South Florida’s continuous and crucial role in the artworlds of the Tampa Bay region.

For next semester’s graduate seminar, I will focus on my research area, which is the history of artists’ collectives. We will annotate the tremendous list of international artists’ groups compiled by Temporary Services, liaise with Basekamp’s Plausible Artworlds,� and the Art Spaces Archives Project, and read the late work of medievalist Donald Drew Egbert (1902-1973).

My research and teaching responds to a new wave of collectivity in the world of art. It is an exciting moment, and I am excited to be here in Tampa to work on it.

For background, see:

“General Introduction to Collectivity in Modern Art,” paper for Critical Mass exhibition, Smart Museum, University of Chicago, April 2002

Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette, editors, Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945 (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)

I was a member of these groups in New York: Collaborative Projects, aka Colab, and ABC No Rio. I manage the MWF Video Club archive.

Thomas Hutchison is a multi-media artist/air hockey champion living and working in New York. Since his graduation from the University of Florida's Electronic Intermedia MFA program in 2004 he has participated in a number of shows including: Dumbo Arts Festival, Flux Factory's Secret Clubhouse Project, Inter-Society of Electronic Arts(ISEA)2007 SanJose Museum of Art, Festa di Cane Bastardo Timberspace, Los Angles, and YMI at Dead End Gallery, Brooklyn.