V2_: Model Behaviour, interactive installations

[marjolein at v2.nl]

Model Behaviour
Interactive installations by Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead (GB)
Opening: Friday 25th January 2002, 18.00 hours (with the presence of the 
artists)
Date: 26th January  10th February 2002
Open: 12.00  18.00 hours, closed Monday 4th February 2002
Admission: € 3,50
Location: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam

‘Driving through Las Vegas’
Choose your own soundtrack by using a patch panel and a headphone, while 
cruising the main strip of Las Vegas. Part road movie, part 3D driving 
game. DIY cinema for devotees.

‘CNN Interactive just got more interactive’
Infotainment ad absurdum: add a variety of soundtracks to the monolithic 
CNN Interactive website in an attempt to further mediate a moment of 
infotainment -to bring a cinematic conceit to this ever changing global 
news feed. CNN Interactive just got more interactive highlights the thin 
lines between fact and fiction, news making and entertainment.

‘Telephony’
Visitors can dial into a wall based grid of 42 Siemens mobile telephones, 
which in turn begin to call each other and create a piece of 'music.' Each 
phone has been individually programmed with a different ringtone. The more 
people who dial into the work, the more layered the audio becomes.

Biographies:
Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead have been working with video and sound since 
1991. More recently they have been exploring the possibilities of the 
Internet and screen based multimedia to create navigable or user led 
environments. Many of their internet-based works seek to manipulate 
existing data (websites, sound tracks, ring tones) in surprising, critical 
and humorous ways. The latter often engenders a feeling of estrangement in 
the visitor.

Recent exhibitions include 
‘010101 Art in Technological Times’ at The 
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco and 
‘Art & Money Online’ at Tate Britain.

Jon Thomson studied BA Fine Art in Leicester and PG diploma Electronic 
Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee and currently 
lectures at The Slade School of Fine Art in London.

Alison Craighead studied painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art 
in Dundee and is currently a researcher into web specific art at the 
University of Westminster.

More info: http://www.v2.nl/2002 and on http://www.thomson-craighead.net/

Concept and production: V2_Organisatie, Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotterdam

‘Model Behaviour’ is supported by: Cultural Affairs, City of Rotterdam, 
Ministry of OC&W, Luna Internet, Siemens, KPN Mobile and The British 
Council. The works are provided on Courtesy Mobile Home, London