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09/12/2006 Archived Entry: "Jonah Brucker-Cohen talks at Concordia"

Jonah Brucker-Cohen at Concordia University, Montreal, September 11, 2006

The Oboro Gallery is opening an exhibition this Saturday of works by net artist Jonah Brucker-Cohen. As an appetizer (one would imagine) Jonah gave us a talk and intro to his work and methodology yesterday at Concordia's Visual Arts building (the old one). Nice to see some of my favorite pieces such as Police State, and a couple of the other pieces (such as BumpList) made me wish more of the students from the Sociology of Cyberspace course I am TAing this term had come by. A smattering of (strangely disjointed?) questions followed regarding mainstream access and collaborative ownership-- I just enjoyed a moment to think about the collision of real and virtual spaces. The Saturday exhibition opens with a 3pm performance of SimpleTEXT, which if I understand correctly is a collaborative VJing performance.

I wanted to ask how someone who has worked extensively with tangible interfaces saw SimpleTEXT performance-- particularly since performance is commonly quite physical and expressive, and the means of 'performing' in this work is so narrowly bounded (on the surface). But I was just too damn sick-- *snork* -- I'll have to see for myself on Saturday.