C5 Field Mediation Participants:
Joel Slayton Additional C5 members:
Anne-Marie Schleiner
Joel Slayton is founder and president of C5, a research corporation
specializing
in theoretical models, analysis, and tactical implementations of information
technology. Slayton is a digital media art professor at San Jose State
University, where he is director of the CADRE Institute, an
interdisciplinary research center. He is a member of
the Leonardo/ISAST board of directors and is a highly respected
artist, writer, and theorist whose work has been featured in over 100
exhibitions and 50 publications. Selected for ISEA98, his theoretical paper
"Re-Purpose of Information: Networks as Art" explores the hyperlogical
and autocatalytic nature of network evolution. Slayton was a participant
in the prestigious PAIR residency program at the Xerox Parc Research Center.
Geri Wittig, a C5 research theorist, currently is investigating the
potentiality of autopoietic data systems organization.
Wittig is a research associate at the CADRE Institute, San Jose State University; a contributing editor of
Switch, CADRE's on-line, new media art journal; and a Web producer
at Adobe Systems Inc., based in San Jose, California. In addition, she is a new media
artist collaborating in the net.art medium and is contributing to a book by the Electronic
Disturbance Theater to be published by Autonomedia in 1999.
Jan Ekenberg, a C5 research theorist, came to Silicon Valley in 1994
after studies in his native Sweden and at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art
in Copenhagen. As an installation artist and sculptor, he has exhibited his work in
Sweden, Denmark, and the United States. Ekenberg also has collaborated on numerous
large-scale projects, including "The Volcanic Sofa Project" in
Reykjavik, Iceland; "The Secret Bunker Site" in Hirtshals, Denmark; and
"Landscape Painting as Counter Surveillance" outside of Area 51, Nevada.
He has written theory and criticism and teaches new media art at the
CADRE Institute, San Jose State University.
Brett Stalbaum, a C5 research theorist, specializes in network
aesthetics, algorithm development, and critical theory. Stalbaum is a
teaching associate and graduate student at the CADRE Institute, San Jose State University.
As a network artist, he has developed a number of network-based conceptual projects,
including the "Joint Tactical Disinformation Distribution System" and
"net.art Sketch" (a geographical scale drawing tool); he also has collaborated as the Java
programmer for the Electronic Disturbance Theater. He has written numerous
critical essays on net.art for Switch, CADRE's on-line magazine, and is contributing to a
book by the Electronic Disturbance Theater to be published by Autonomedia in
1999. Currently, he is researching the problems and potential of
using autopoietic computing models in fine art.
Lisa Jevbratt is an artist and C5 research theorist. She came to the United States
and the CADRE Institute in 1994 after studying in art and philosophy
in her native Sweden. As a teacher at San Jose State University, Jevbratt lectures on
computer systems and networks as art,
art-theory, and innovative uses of programming languages. In her artistic work,
she explores organizational structures, data mining,
and collaborative information filtering. Jevbratt's work has been exhibited
internationally and featured in various media. Her ongoing work, "A Stillman
Project," is being shown as a parasitic art system commissioned and hosted
by Walker Art Center's Web site (www.walkerart.org).
Jack Toolin is a performer,
photographer, painter, and videographer. He regularly performs in the San
Francisco Bay Area and has appeared in Pittsburgh, New York, Hong Kong, and
Reno, Nevada. His performances combine visual punch with information mania and
cathartic cacophony, creating a humorous antidote to economic stress in the
era of late capitalism. For the past six years, he has produced, curated, and
emceed the Performance Night series at Works/San Jose, a nonprofit
alternative gallery and performance space, and has curated several visual art
exhibitions as well. Toolin works with students of all ages
and teaches a variety of topics, from fundamental art
to postmodern theory. |