- Yael Kanarek
Yael Kanarek (born
1967 ) is an artist based inNew York City . [Rachel Greene, "Internet Art", Thames & Hudson, Ltd., 2004. ISBN 0500203768]Kanarek is the founder of [http://www.theupgrade.net/ The Upgrade!] , an international network of artists and curators concerned with art, technology and activism. She holds an MFA from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute .Kanarek has been developing an integrated media project called [http://www.worldofawe.net World of Awe] since
1995 . At the core of World of Awe is “The Journal”—an original narrative that uses the ancient genre of the traveler's tale to explore connections between storytelling, travel, memory and technology.Selected for the
2002 Whitney Biennial , Kanarek has been recognized in the United States and abroad with awards including the Rockefeller2005 New Media Fellowship, 2003 Netizens Webprize, andCNRS /UNESCO Lewis Carroll Argos prize in France. She has received grants from the Jerome Foundation Media Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and commissions from San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, [http://turbulence.org Turbulence.org] , and the Alternative Museum. Kanarek has also completed artist residencies at Eyebeam and Harvestworks.Kanarek’s work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Sala Uno Gallery in Rome; K-99, in Cologne; Nelly Aman, Israel; Rhizome openMouse; The Kitchen;
SIGGRAPH ;American Museum of the Moving Image ;The Drawing Center ; and bitforms gallery, New York and Seoul, among many others. [http://www.bitforms.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=91#id=14&num=1]References
External links
* [http://worldofawe.net/index.html Yael Kanarek's World of Awe]
* [http://rhizome.org/news/story.php?timestamp=20070418 Rhizome News post about World of Awe]
* [http://acfmusic.org/innova/podcasts/m4m/33_Yoavgal_Yaelkanarek.mp3 Podcast interview with Phillip Blackburn on "Bit by Bit, Cell by Cell"]
* [http://www.mediascot.org/podcasts/NMSpodcast150906.mp3 Podcast of Yael Kanarek's lecture for New Media Scotland at the inaugural Upgrade! Scotland meeting]
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