Cybernetic Works

Diane Bertolo, Channel Untitled
In channelUntitled, Diane Bertolo explores the history of communication technologies that have allowed us to transmit messages over distance and have therefore contributed, by the invention of each new device, to the "the death of human contact." Using the examples of three "contact" instruments—the telephone, the radio and the computer—the work is a reflection on the materialization of the intangible, the manifestation of the invisible, the relationship between the presence and the absence of the individual, and the future of the body in the contexts created by telecommunications.

Caitlin Berrigan , La Specola
Innumerable cultures with a lasting written or oral history make some reference to the archetype of the vagina dentata, or the toothed vagina. The practice of fantasizing teeth in soft, dark places informs the ways in which medicine approaches the body's interiors. It is a fantasy in which fear, desire, and repulsion combine. The interactive environment of La Specola is an invitation to experience themes of violation, pleasure and fear within the structure of medical examination. It contains a repository of videos, text, and images where historical and contemporary ideas intermingle to form a portrait, not necessarily of the vagina, but of our relationship to gender and the body's viscera. (On site viewing only)

Elizabeth Kilroy, arttype
shaping words around the act of seeing, typography as kinetic image

Lorie Novak, Reverb
Reverb online examines the personal and political significance of personal and media photographs and their meanings as public and private memorials. Images are drawn from important and little known documentary images of historical events from World War II to the present, and from Novak's archive of personal imagery including family snapshots, self-portraits, and travel photographs from the same periods.

Fred Ritchin, Chasing the Dream
In the year 2000, 189 Member States of the United Nations agreed to help the world’s poorest nations to make significant and measurable progress towards a better life for their people by the year 2015.

Profiling the lives of eight young people in eight places – Brazil, Cambodia, India, Jamaica, Morocco, Uganda, the the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in Hoima, Uganada , and the Ukraine – this website, Chasing the Dream, explores their difficult living situations and their intense desire, whatever the odds, to lead better lives. Photographs by Diego Goldberg and articles by Roberto Guareschi on the youth can be seen by clicking on Eight Lives.

In Chasing the Dream workshops young people in each of the eight places were invited to comment, in photography and writing, on their own particular likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, and explore some of the social issues that frame their lives. A selection of these photos and texts are featured in Views from the Inside.