UPCOMING

2011

–Talk at the Hood Museum, Hanover NH at the new Fluxus exhibition (likely May/June), “Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life.”

–Talk at the AIGA Chicago, Design Thinking 2011 series

23-25 May  2011  / Gaming as Gateway to Computing for Girls and Women, NCWIT Summit on Women and IT: practices and ideas to revolutionize computing, NYC

6th May 2011  / Metadata Games for Archives and Libraries,” American Council of Learned Societies, Washington DC May

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PAST

2011

2nd April 2011  /“Developing and Open Source Metadata Games System for Archives and Libraries,” New England Archivists, Brown U, Providence April

23 March 2011 / NHIP Conference Manchester, 7:30-4:30
Tiltfactor launches its New website, and new Immunization game!

7th – 8th March 2011 / University of Maryland
Digital Cultures and Creativity (http://dcc.umd.edu), Visit and Talks

4th – 5th March 2011 / Technologies of Meaning Conference
Johns Hopkins University and Maryland Institute College of Art
Exhibition of works in the [borders] series , Maryland Institute College of Art

3rd March 2011 (11:30am Thurs March 3) / Digital Media and Learning
Designing Learning Futures Conference, LA
Workshop: Real World Games (for Civic Action Platforms) with Susanna Ruiz, Benjamin Stokes

http://dmlcentral.net/conference2011

28th Feb – 2nd March 2011 / Game Developer’s Conference
Education Summit Panel, San Francisco
Building and Growing a Game Lab

16th February 2011  / Mary Flanagan Artists Talk
Bloomfield College, New Jersey.

14th February 2011  /“Relational Aesthetics + Mediation: Rule systems” Parsons MA in Media Studies program talk

12th February 2011  / Participant, Art/Technology Global Sample, a centennial panel at the College Art Association, curated by Mark Tribe and Chris Csikszentmihályi

30th January 2011 / Mary Flanagan Artists Talk
Writing Machine Collective Exhibition, Youth Square, Chai Wan Hong Kong

15th – 30th January 2011 / Exhibition of three works in the [borders] series
Computational Thinking in Existing Art Forms WMC_e4
(Writing Machine Collective) Youth Square, Chai Wan Hong Kong

15th – 23rd  January 2011 / Thinktank
METAL culture, Southend on Sea UK
with Artist, Author, and Organizer Ruth Catlow, Furtherfield.org and Rachel Lichtenstein, Artist and Author

October 8,9,10 / Speaking at Indiecade

September 6-7 / Trinity College Dublin

August 13-14/ Games for Girls WorkshopChicago

2010

May 24/ Games for Change Games 101 Workshop NYC, at Parsons/The New School

May 14 / Digital Humanities Symposium at Dartmouth College Hanover NH

June 7-9 / Trinity College Dublin

May 6-7 / Values in Design Workshop NYC, at NYU

April 12-16 / Keynote Speaker DIGITEL 2010 Taiwan, The IEEE 3rd International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning

March 14th / Keynote Speaker, Playing the City/Giocando la città, Modena Italia

2009

November 16 / Montreal International Games Summit panel

November 2 /MIT Gambit Lab and in the Purple Blurb lecture series

November 3 / Hood Museum Gallery Talk, Hanover NH

August 2009 / Show of perfect.city
South Korea

May 27-29 / Games for Change

March 27-April 1 / I will be in Hong Kong giving a series of consultations and talks

March 23-27 / Game Developers Conference 2009

March / L.A. Alumni group talk

February 2009 / Talk at the Transart Institute

2008

November / Talk at RISD

November / Talk at DIGRA NYC

October 30 – Nov 3 / Talk at Computer Space, Sophia Bulgaria

October 17 – 19 / Keynote at Future and Reality of Gaming

Sept 13 2008 / Massively Multiplayer Game Launch @ Conflux Festival

August / UC-Santa Clara Values in Design Workshop

July / Games, Learning and Society workshop

June / Games for Change NYC Panel

May / V2 Lab Talk, Rotterdam

April / Cornell Talk

March / Brooklyn Poly Panel

March / AERA Panel

February / GameLab Talk NYU

February / GDC Panel

January / Savannah Talk

January / Georgia Tech Talk

2007

October / Cinekids talk, Amsterdam

October 4 / Beall Center exhibition with GrandTextAuto folks

September 24-28 / Presentation of “A Method For Discovering Issues Around Values in Digital Games” at Digital Games Research Association (DIGRA), Tokyo

September / Presentation of “Locating Play and Politics: Real World Games and Political Action” at The Digital Arts and Culture Conference, Perth Australia

July / Maine College of Art visiting artist

June / MacDowell Colony Residency, New Hampshire

April / Game Design Heuristics for Activist Games, Full Paper, CHI (Computer Human Interaction Conf.)

April / Women in Games Conference, UK

April / Artists Talk, Rutgers University

April / Heading in Different Directions, Emerging Terrain in Games and Simulation Symposium, RPI

April / Artists Talk, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Film Program

March / Artists Talk, School of Visual Arts March

March / eVALUating Games, NYU Workshop, NYC

March / [giantJoystick] in Feedbach, [domestic] in Gameworld, Laboral Art Center Inaugeral Show, Asturias Spain

February / Feminist Visualities conference, Cornell University

January / Graduate Colloquium and Exhibition Talk, Georgia Institute of Technology January

2006

December / Women Making Science: Problem, Progress, Power with The Feminist Press

June / panel organizer, “Trailblazers” at Games for Change conference, NYC

April-Maydistinguished visiting scholar at BTH Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

April / Keynote Speaker, Code Conference Miami Ohio University

April / Artist’s presentation at the Neuberger Museum of Art

March / Serious Play presentation and Panel organizer, Serious Games Summit, GDC

March / Presentation at Living Game Worlds: Design Processes and the Future of Expressive Computing, Georgia Tech

January / American Folk Art Museum Panel, “I Taught Myself Everything I Know: Autodidacticism in New Media Art” organized by Mark Tribe, Brown U.,

December 2005 – 2006 / Residency, creative material group Portland Oregon

Speaker at College Art Association, Boston

Guest speaker at Columbia University, Women in Computing, NYC

The Virtual 2006: designing digital experience, Södertörn University, Stockholm

Nordic Games Conference, Malmo Sweden

exhibition of [giantJoystick] at HTTP gallery, London

Premier of collaborative work on Turbulence

Reading of e-texts in October

Artist’s Talk, Bowling Green State Univ. Ohio in conjunction with gallery installation

2005

October / Microwave International Media Festival Exhibition, Hong Kong

September / AIGA Design conference

June 1-10 / Guest and Keynoter at ICT summer school, Stockholm

April / Juror for Southshore Arts Center TechArt II show, part of Cyberarts Boston

March / keynote speaker at U FL games conference

February / juror on the New York State Foundation for the Arts grant program

February / speaking at St. Louis Museum

February / showing [domestic] at ARCO in Milan

Residency in December at iPark, CT

UW-Milwaukee Film Program Colloquia inaugeral speaker for critical studies program

two papers given at DIGRA

conference in Vancouver

speaking about game design for girls at  the Btween International Festival in the uk, http://www.btween.co.uk/

Co-curating an art and games show to coincide with digra spring 2005

visiting speaker/visiting critic this spring at Pace University, Parsons, Georgia Tech, MassArt, nd Stockton College in New Jersey

2004

November / I’ve just been to UNIVERSITÉ PARIS IV-SORBONNE to give a paper called “Playculture: Work, Leisure, and the Digital Vernacular” at the Leisure and Liberty in North America conference

2003-2004 / I was an invited speaker at the Inter Society of Electronic Arts conference in Helsinki, University of Auckland (multiple engagements), Emerson college, Columbia University, The Art Institute of Chicago, MIT Media Lab, the Plaything Conference Keynote speaker in Sydney Australia, and the NY Law School. Upcoming engagements include University of Maine, St. Louis Center for Contemporary Art, the Steirischer Herbst festival in Austria, the British HCI conference, + the Sorbonne in Paris, among others.

October 2004 / showed work and speaking at the steirischer herbst festival in Graz Austria.

Sept 2004 / spoke at the University of Maine, “Code & Creativity IV Games: Making & Unmaking the World.”

August / Talk with collaborator ken perlin at InterSociety of Electronic Arts (ISEA) conference, Helsinki, “Cultural Softwares: Artistic Tools & DIY Networks;”

August / [ineffable] at siggraph

August / invited to BANFF canada new media summit/thinktank on mobile technologies

July / speaking at Teacher Institute for Contemporary Art at the Chicago Art Institute

June-July / [domestic] @GiganticArtSpace, NYC

June / National Womens Studies Assn conf panel

April / University of Auckland International Strategic Opportunities and Research Collaborations visit

Also article on subversive use of computer games going online at the New York Law School Review (peer reviewed journal) www.nyls.edu/lawreview

March 18 – May 16 / [phage] at the Guggenheim, Seeing Double show, panel discussion May 8th

March 24 / Presidential Roundtable, Gender and Computer Games

March 17 / Talk at Emerson College

Talk at Columbia’s Digital Media center

2003

Visit to Mitch Resnick’s Lifelong Kindergargen program, MIT Media Lab

Plaything, Sydney Australia October – premiere of [domestic] game project

December / Artist’s talk, UC-Colorado Springs

November 4-6DiGRA Conference in Utrecht

May 19 – 23 / Showing work at the Digital Arts and Culture Conference, Melbourne

May 19 / [search] opening

May / Visiting Artist and Artist Presentation, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

April 16-19 / “SIMple and Personal: Domestic Spaces and The Sims” Joint meeting of the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, New Orleans

Feb 27 – Mar 1 / “[search]-ing” 9th Biennial Symposium for Arts and TechnologyAmmerman Center for Arts and Technology at Connecticut College

February 7 – 9 / INTERACTIVE FUTURES: New Stories, New Visions Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival – http://www.vifvf.com/ University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

The State of Play: Panel at NY Law School

Harvestworks Residency

NY Law School-Information Society Project at Yale Law School State of Play conf

Carbon Versus Silicon: Thinking Small/Thinking Fast Banff New Media Summit

2002

December / Co-host at Melinda Rackham’s subtle.net

November 23 / 2002 [contamination] installation at MotelHaus, Eugene OR

November / Artist talk at U Washington

October 10 – 16 / [phage] at the Moving Image Center, Auckland

July – Aug / The Physics Room, New Zealand- Installation

May / Showed work + gave talk at Experimenting Arts and Sciences Conference, Aarhus Denmark

April / Showed work in “Northwest Documenta” in Salem OR showcasing Pacific NW contemporary art

February 7 – 9 / Gave a paper “The ‘Nature’ of Networks: Space and Place in the ‘Silicon Forest’” at the Nature and Progress: Interactions, Exclusions, Mutations Conference, University of Paris-Sorbonne

[remotion] Internet Artwork at CODEDOC, Whitney Artport

[search] Internet Artwork premiers “Mapping Transitions” exhibit, University of Colorado, Boulder

FutureScreen 2002 Sydney Australia – in the “all star data mappers” show

[collection] in the Whitney Biennial

2001

Santa Cruz Art League showcases work in arts and technology show

Talk at the UAAC in Montreal in October about transgenic art and feminism

September / [rootings] premiering at turbulence.org website

August / Showed [collection] at The Banff Centre New Media Institute

April – July / Visiting Professor, Interactive Artist Computer Science + Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1 Sec. 4 Roosevelt Rd, TaipeiWork on multidisciplinary human-computer interface projects

March / “Artist’s Talk” Reina Sophia Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Madrid

January 21 / [The Perpetual Bed] Stuttgart Filmwinter Special 3D exhibition, Stuttgart Germany

February 28-March 3 / College Art Association, “The Surreal, the Hyperreal, and the Virtually Real” Panel Participant

2000

June – December / DIGITAL2000: International Competition and Exhibition New York and Philadelphia. The exhibition of the winning works will travel to the following venues: Central Fine Arts Gallery in SoHo, NYC, the Technology Gallery at The New York Hall of Science (NYHOS) (Sept.18-Nov.26), and Silicon Gallery in Philadelphia (Dec.1-31). Showing [phage]. Juror: John Ippolito, Guggenheim.

July 23-28 / Siggraph 2000 New Orleans

July 22-27 / work going to be at VRML show at Art Gallery at Siggraph 2000, New Orleans

August 2- 4 / Digital Arts & Culture Conference, Bergen Norway showing installation

21-24 February / ACM SIGGRAPH sponsored Web3D/VRML Symposium Monterey, CA, USA

VRML Art 2000 – VRML-ART 2000 shows important advances in the content and structure possible in the Web 3D medium. The works amplify a new wave of creative output by artists and designers, who have specialized on internet

February 21-24 / Web3D-VRML 2000 Monterey, CA, USA

April 14 – 15 / Urban Girls Conference, Buffalo NY

May 21-27 / 6th annual Computer Arts Festival, Maribor, Slovenia

[arborescence]

[unnatural elements: avatarportraits]

[borders]

career moves

[collection]

[collection] from mary flanagan on Vimeo.

corporate ladder

[domestic]

[double]

[from the ranks]

[ghost city]

[giantJoystick]

[theHouse]

[ineffable]

[kaleidoglobe]

[matsu:goddess]

[meme.garden]

[PERFECT.CITY]

[the perpetual bed]

[the perpetual bed] from mary flanagan on Vimeo.

[phage]

[phage] from mary flanagan on Vimeo.

[remotion]

[rootings]

[rootwords]

[search]

she went back

[six.circles]

[xyz]

]]> http://www.maryflanagan.com/imagesvideos/feed 0 http://www.maryflanagan.com/search http://www.maryflanagan.com/search#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:57:07 +0000 admin http://www.maryflanagan.com/dev/?p=52 software / network / computer

When it was proclaimed that the Library contained all books, the first impression was one of extravagant happiness. All men felt themselves to be the masters of an intact and secret treasure… At that time it was also hoped that a clarification of humanity’s basic mysteries […] might be found. …
There are official searchers, inquisitors.
I have seen them in the performance of their function: they always arrive extremely tired from their journeys; they speak of a broken stairway which almost killed them; they talk with the librarian of galleries and stairs; sometimes they pick up the nearest volume and leaf through it, looking for infamous words.

Obviously, no one expects to discover anything.

–Jorge Luis Borges, “The Library of Babel” (1)

Information technology has become an indespensible element in communication, play, and work. For example, a recent study shows that a typical office worker relies more on e-mail communication than face-to-face contact to share knowledge.(2) Almost every computer user relies upon Internet search engines to gather information, seek entertainment, and find pleasure. Search engines are deeply embedded into daily activity-they are the primary way people in the 21st century seek information …”we depend upon them so utterly.” (3)

Searching the internet, however, is regularly confusing and chaotic. Like Borges’ inquisitors mentioned in the passage above, searchers are regularly besieged with lists of thousands of results, and no systematic keyword system has yet developed to standardize the language of the search.(4) Searching can be frustrating, and the material discovered is often inaccurate. Searchers themselves offer to the mix complicated requests, misspellings, and odd X-rated content descriptions; the kinds of things people search for might seem disturbing, petty, or peculiar.

Search engines map, through phrase-like inquiries, our desire to find knowledge. Monitoring such desires allows us to read and live through other people’s interests.(5) To further explore this very critical aspect of Internet life, I developed [search]. [search] is an internet-based application which explores the human desire for information and knowledge through real-time monitoring of internet search engine inquiries from around the world. This research ties in specifically with my internet-based artistic practice, pushing the performative, live, and user-influenced aspects of pieces such as [remotion] (2002), [collection] (2001) and [rootings] (2001).

The work conceptually explores everyday life: how do people use technology in their daily lives? What are the commonalities of human desire? How is the desire affected by the internet’s inherent immediacy? What kinds of language do people bring to search engines? Does the kind of language used by searchers tell us something about how people view the internet and technology? Do people search for material or experiential items? How much time do people spend searching for sex, drugs, or money? Do people spend an equal amount of time searching for friends, god, and spirituality? Are our human values exposed through search engines? What is the data most sought after?

[search] is programmed using the Lingo programming language. Users click on words in the live search feed as they find words in others’ searches which interest them. These words separate, and conduct their own searches on themselves. Users can drag two words together which interest them to produce associative searches.

At this point, who is the searcher? What is being searched?

Acknowledgements:

-This project was funded by a commission from the University of Colorado @ Boulder.
-Special thanks to Brian Brantner, software engineer on the project. He can be found at http://www.marcotte.com.
-AskJeeves.com is used for the search engine feed
-EAT: Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus, a psycholinguistic database, is used to search joint searches from dragged “wordcloud” items

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1 Borges, Jorge Luis. “The Library of Babel.” Labyrinths. New York: New Directions, 1964, 55.

2 “Survey Shows Office Workers Rely More Heavily On E-mail Than Face-to-Face Contact to Share Knowledge; AIIM Attendees Surveyed on Work Practices.” Business Wire March 7, 2002, 2393.

3 Toto, Christian. “Web Wise.” Insight on the News, Dec 10, 2001.17:46, 32-34.

4 Guernsey, Lisa. “The Search Engine as Cyborg.” The New York Times. Technology Sect. Jn 29 2000.

5 Garrity, Bronwyn. “Some Cyberspace of Her Own: Escapes From the Dark Horrible Sucking Trail of the Lost Voice.” The Nation, March 19, 2001. 272:11, 25.

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[remotion] is a computer application which utilizes a webcam as a translator between the natural landscape and an information technology terrain.

Using computer vision technology tied to a wireless, outdoor webcam, the software traces the outlines of rustling tree leaves and waving branches,

tracing/trailing/

chalking/marking/

blipping

the presence of living material in both time and space using three small square points.

The project explores the relationship of nature and technoculture through this reduction of form.

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