About this project
I have an amazing invitation to bring my installation 'Network' to an artist-run international conference, being held this October in Sao Paolo Brazil. Upgrade! Soft Borders is entirely run by a network of new media artist groups around the world. As such, it's a great context for exchange and exposure, but funding is limited, especially this year. Many artists participate via fundng from institutions where they teach. My chosen 'gig' is not in academia but in technology development for artists. So, in order to participate, I will need to raise my plane fare, materials costs, and accommodations.
'Soft Borders' will be my second international invitation, so it's also a huge opportunity for my work. Your help to get me there would be greatly appreciated!
More about 'Network':
Visualizing the idea that we simultaneously live in a real and virtual world, and that the virtual is infinitely expansive, 'Network' uses large quantities of electric yellow twine (tied in patterns based on both social network structures and Internet network infrastructure) to suggest a virtual network landscape cutting through an otherwise ordinary space.
Since November 2009, site-specific versions of 'Network' have been created in Chicago for an unused store front downtown and a gallery space at Hyde Park Art Center (for Spatial City, An Architecture of Idealism, which will also travel to MOCAD Detroit in September). Currently, a version for 'What It Is' project space in Oak Park IL takes over a working house.
Links:
http://saraschnadt.com/section/143533_NETWORK_2009.html
http://softborders.art.br/eng/
http://www.theupgrade.net/
http://wot-it-is.com/
http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/2010/05/the_spatial_city_the_architect.php
Budget:
$1000 plane fare
$500 materials
$500 accommodations
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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on September 16, 2010.
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All contributors: invited to an open house for kickstarter supporters of 'Network' at my studio upon my return to Chicago. The studio visit will include an artist talk about the making of Network, and my experience creating a version of it in Sao Paolo.
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An 8"x10" signed, limited edition print of an image of my finished piece in Brazil
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A dvd of the new film version of my performance installation 'Network Hub' http://tinyurl.com/35d4ck3
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A signed copy of the catalogue for 'Network, Domestic Intervention', a version of 'Network' created this summer for 'What It Is' project space in Oak Park, IL. www.wot-it-is.com. For 'What It Is' this August, a version of 'Network' inhabits the entire house that is the project space and artists/curators' live-work space, and extends out into the garden. Tom Burtonwood and Holly Holmes will also live with the work in their home for a month, negotiating their routines around it. A series of photographs will document their activity for the project catalog. Catalog essay by Lori Waxman.
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A 12"x14" signed, limited edition print of an image of my finished piece in Brazil
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An 18" x 24" signed, limited edition print of an image of my finished piece in Brazil
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Connected as Sara Schnadt
Sara Schnadt is a Chicago-based artist working in new media, installation and performance art. She has shown her in work in Chicago at Hyde Park Art Center, Pop-Up Art Loop temporary gallery series, 12x12 at the MCA Chicago, the Site Unseen Performance Festival, Balloon Contemporary, and at Antena Gallery. National and international shows include Spatial City at MOCAD Detroit, Exchange Rate public projection series in LA and New York, and the Busan Biennale in Busan, South Korea.
Sara co-curates the IN>TIME Performance Series and is co-founder and technologist for Chicago Artists Resource website at the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.
