Media Arts Program
 

Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.

CEPA Gallery and Hallwalls present

Stephanie Rothenberg

Best Practices in Banana Time with Doctor Rodenberger

Hallwalls Cinema and Eyebeam Island in Second Life

A mixed reality talk show in real life and the 3D social networking environment of Second Life about people whose work lives intersect the real and the virtual. Doctor Rodenberger (aka Stephanie Rothenberg) will interview her virtual guests about how the virtualization of their labor affects the value of their work. Tentative guests include a real world/virtual world dog trainer, a pastor and a race car driver.

More about Stephanie Rothenberg

Stephanie Rothenberg creates provocative interactions that question the boundaries and social constructs of manufactured desires. Through participatory performance, installation and networked media, her work investigates the mediation of the physical, analog body through the digital interfaces of commodity culture. Adopting the role of cultural anthropologist, the medium of the techno-sphere itself becomes a laboratory for raising critical questions about our interpersonal relationship to technology and its broader socio-political implications.

 
 
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Marla Hlady
Walls


For the past twenty years, objects and sound have played an ongoing and intimate part in the practice of Toronto artist Marla Hlady. Often, a rigorous and seemingly solid sculptural form has been injected with an element of seemingly spontaneous action—which generates its own sound score—as well as pre-recorded sound elements introduced innocuously into fabricated objects. There has often been a duality between the desire to contain and shape sound and motion and the impulse to let it find its own self-actualizing space.