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The eighth project in SMoCA’s “southwestNET” series, this exhibition highlights groundbreaking art using new technologies by Mark Amerika/ Rick Silva/ Nathaniel Wojtalik (Boulder, Colorado); David Birchfeild/ Loren Olsen (Tempe, Arizona); Natalie Jerimeijenko (La Jolla, California); Yves Amu Klein (Scottsdale, Arizona); Lucy Petrovich (Tucson, Arizona) and Tristan Shone (La Jolla, California). On December 17, artist Rick Silva will be at SMoCA for a 24-hour, international “blog jam” using cell-phone technology, with Mark Amerika (in Sydney, Australia) and Nathaniel Wojtalik (in Boulder, Colorado).
Please Join Us for a Feral Robotic Release!
Saturday, January 21, 1:00 pm
Artist Natalie Jeremijenko will discuss her Feral Robotic Dog project along with students from South Mountain High Achool and Arizona State University who participated in the design and modification of the feral dogs. Paul Rasmussen Director of Policy and Planning for the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality will join the discussion and briefly discuss children's health issues as they have been effected by local pollution. Following the discussion the grop will visit speciialy slected sites to release the robotic dogs to test for urban pollutants in the community.
Maps to the sites will be provided following the presentation at SMoCA.
Organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Made possible in part by Karla and Walter Goldschmidt and the SMoCA Salon. |
Natalie Jeremijenko, Feral Robotic Dogs, 2003
plastic robotic toy dogs with modified electronic components, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
© Natalie Jeremijenko
December 17, 2005-
May 14, 2006
Virginia Ullman Gallery, SMoCA |
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