curating the web: “while we were working” + infobahn episode one (secret) at la esquina september 4
First Friday at la Esquina, 1000 West 25th, is all about mediating virtual information. The free evening kicks off at 7:30 with While We Were Working, a one-hour program of YouTube selections curated by artists Eric Fleischauer (Chicago) and Robert Snowden (New York). “Digging in deep, past the recognizable, recommended, and promoted selections, we have compiled a range of videos that provoke and articulate YouTube’s role as an artist resource, venue, and medium,” they write. Their program folds together video featuring such cultural icons as Barack Obama, David Lee Roth, John Cage, Charlie Rose, Nicholas Cage, A-ha, and Picasso’s Guernica; cultural phenomenon such as Japanese train loading, wave pools, and QVC television; and a range of highly idiosyncratic performances, experiments and activities that emblematize the wildly eclectic, populist nature of YouTube.
At 8:30 is the launch of INFOBAHN, a new event series where invited presenters will each share approximately 15-minutes worth of selections culled from the vast field of web-based information in response to a given theme. INFOBAHN is about information, inspiration, and personal interest; the process of searching, navigating, discovering, making choices; and the unique structure and ever expanding virtual terrain that is the internet. The theme for INFOBAHN Episode I is “Secret.” Presenters include Ari Fish, Miguel Rivera, Lisa Marie Evans, Dirk Cowan, Paul Shortt, and Deanna Skedel.
Read complete press release. POST EVENT UPDATE!: INFOBAHN Episode I links.