{"id":1095,"date":"2006-02-28T22:12:29","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T20:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/28\/the-upgrade-johannesburg-and-wits-digital-soiree-presents-mtaa\/"},"modified":"2006-03-04T16:10:41","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T14:10:41","slug":"the-upgrade-johannesburg-and-wits-digital-soiree-presents-mtaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/28\/the-upgrade-johannesburg-and-wits-digital-soiree-presents-mtaa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Upgrade! Johannesburg and Wits Digital Soiree present: MTAA"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Upgrade! Joburg<\/a> site:<\/p>\n

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At their permission, Nathaniel Stern will be presenting the work of MTAA<\/a>, a Brooklyn based digital art duo, most famous for their extremely provocative and quirky networked art: <\/p>\n

Artists M. River<\/strong> and T. Whid<\/strong> formed MTAA<\/a><\/strong> in 1996 and soon after began to explore the internet as a medium for public art. The duo’s exhibition history includes group shows and screenings at The New Museum of Contemporary Art<\/a>, Postmasters Gallery<\/a> and Artists Space<\/a>, all in New York City, and at The Getty Research Institute<\/a> in Los Angeles. International exhibitions include the Seoul Net & Film Festival<\/em><\/a> in Korea and Videozone2 – The 2nd International Video Art Biennial<\/em><\/a> in Israel. In the forthcoming New Media Art<\/em> (Taschen, 2006), authors Mark Tribe and Reena Jana describe MTAA’s 1 year performance video (aka samHsiehUpdate)<\/em><\/a> as “a deftly transparent demonstration of new media’s ability to manipulate our perceptions of time.” The collaboration has also earned grants and awards from Rhizome.org<\/a>, Eyebeam<\/a>, New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc.<\/a> and The Whitney Museum’s Artport<\/a> web site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Christo’s cool poster:
<\/strike>UPDATE: this awesome poster was made by Arlene Murphy:<\/strong>
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\"MTAA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Upgrade! Joburg site: At their permission, Nathaniel Stern will be presenting the work of MTAA, a Brooklyn based digital art duo, most famous for their extremely provocative and quirky networked art: Artists M. River and T. Whid formed MTAA in 1996 and soon after began to explore the internet as a medium for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,8,19,5,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-re-blog-tidbits","category-stimulus","category-technology","category-theory","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-hF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1102,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/04\/1102\/","url_meta":{"origin":1095,"position":0},"title":"MTAA @ WSOA","author":"nathaniel","date":"04 March 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"That's M. 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