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<p><span class="style6"><span class="style9">...</span></span><img src="hyperhive_oval_w.jpg" width="300" height="221"><br>
<span class="style6"> The </span><span class="style6">Hyperhive of the Nervepool --A virtual hive of infinite dialogue <br>
<span class="style9">.........</span><span class="style9">..</span>involving multiple species, languages and behaviours</span><br>
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<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE </p>
<p>____________________________________________________<br>
<em>Drexel University's 2005 Marjorie Rankin Scholar-in-Residence </em></p>
<p class="style10"><span class="style2">THE NERVEPOOL</span><br>
EBON FISHER'S EVOLVING SYSTEM of ETHICS <br>
for the AGE of NETWORKS</p>
<p><span class="style12">EXHIBIT OPENING</span>, Wed. March 30th, 2005, 5-7 pm<br>
Leonard Pearlstein Gallery</p>
<p><span class="style12">RECEPTION AND LECTURE</span>, Tuesday April 12th, 2005, 6pm<br>
Ruth Auditorium</p>
<p><span class="style12">LECTURE</span>, Thurs. April 14th, 2005, 4pm <br>
Ruth Auditorium<br>
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<em>All events are at:</em><br>
Nesbitt Hall, Dept. of Media Arts & Design (MAD) <br>
DREXEL UNIVERSITY <br>
33rd & Market Streets, Philadelphia<br>
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<span class="style14">INFO: <a href="index.html">NERVEPOOL.NET</a></span><span class="style15"><br>
CALL:</span> <span class="style14">(609) 894-2390<br>
</span><span class="style15">EMAIL:</span> <span class="style15"><a href="mailto:[email protected]" class="style15">[email protected]</a><br>
IMAGES FOR THE PRESS :</span><span class="style14"> <a href="go.html">NERVEPOOL.NET</a></span><span class="style15"><a href="go.html">/go.html</a> <br>
( To download an image, select "Turbulence," "Adoration," etc., then choose a "Zoacode" or two ) <br>
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<p>OVERVIEW</p>
<p>Human cloning, church/state boundary confusion and prisoner abuses in Iraq have marked the new millenium with a charged dialogue on ethics and "moral values." Digital artist and theorist, Ebon Fisher, enters these turbulent waters with a form of ethics he has been cultivating in a language of networks.</p>
<p>Fisher, Drexel University's 2005 Marjorie Rankin Scholar-in-Residence, presents an exhibit and a series of lectures on the experimental system he calls The Nervepool. This cross-media confabulation involves virtual architecture, video and "ethics modules" called Zoacodes. Fisher will also discuss media rituals he conducted in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the 1990s which helped to establish vital modes of communication for that landmark arts district. Diagrams of information flow which Fisher prepared for his Brooklyn events evolved into Fisher's Zoacodes. </p>
<p>Ebon Fisher states:</p>
<p><em>"In principle, rituals of communication help to lubricate graceful relationships. They are living ethical systems. Morals might be seen as problem-solving routines, the psychological equivalent of computer code ...and like computer code, they work best when they're open source and evolving through public debate."</em></p>
<p>Fisher's Zoacodes (as in living codes) are weblike entities suggesting multiple ways to explore, build social networks and share information. Over 50 in all, the Zoacodes are construed as modules to be combined into millions of different sequences in a rich variety of media --from T-shirts to video to tattoos. The Nervepool was launched by Fisher in an effort to translate international values of peace, love and ecological grace into a cybernetic language of networks. </p>
<p>Modules from Fisher's Nervepool have appeared internationally in museums, raves, festivals and other media, including PS1/MOMA, Japanese television and the Guggenheim Museum's online CyberAtlas which documents the emergence of cyber culture. His work has been discussed in Domus, FlashArt, Mute, Wired, Newsweek, Die Zeit, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and The Drama Review. </p>
<p><img src="Schienke_tattoo_oval.jpg" width="250" height="184"><br>
<span class="style6"><span class="style9">......</span><span class="style9">.</span>Environmental anthropologist, Eric Schienke,
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<span class="style9">.........</span><span class="style9">.</span><span class="style9">............</span><span class="style9">.</span>with Zoacode Tattoo </span></p>
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WIGGLISM AND INTERCODING</p>
<p>At Drexel's Ruth Auditorium on April 14th Fisher will discuss "Wigglism," his approach to culture as a form of "intercoding" between humans, machines and the environment. Fisher suggests:</p>
<p><em>"This may all seem rather ominous, but rather than capitulating to an Orwellian nightmare of servitude to a vast machine, we might see the matrix we inhabit as a liquid continuum swirling with possibilities for mutual intercoding. The fruits of existence may lie in the continuous coding and re-coding of vital ecosystems."</em></p>
<p>Fisher will read from his Wigglism Manifesto, a call to scientists and artists alike to approach their work as "a form of interactive cultivation --not of facts, objects or beauty, but of virtual lifeforms, ecosystems and networks." </p>
<p>Fisher will discuss Wigglism's formation while he was cultivating vital networks of communication in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in the 1990s. His community-based rituals in North Brooklyn helped to seed what has become one of the most active arts districts in New York. His "Web Jam," for instance, brought 2,000 people into an all-night multimedia jam lead by 120 media artists, musicians, performers, architects and historians. Fisher's Web Jam was dubbed a "sequel to the Rave" by Newsweek Magazine. Domus called it a "symbolic climax" to North Brooklyn's creative emergence. </p>
<p>ROOTS AT MIT’S MEDIA LAB </p>
<p>Ebon Fisher is openly obsessed with networks - social, neurological and the wired variety. He's rendered diagrams of neurons in graffiti throughout Pittsburgh, fronted a multimedia rock band called Nerve Circle and immersed his MIT students in an anechoic chamber to listen to "the high pitch squeal of their own nervous systems." Fisher taught the creative use of media at MIT's Media Lab during its first two years of operation and is counted among the pioneers of the digital culture field.</p>
<p>MORE INFORMATION<br>
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Glen Muschio, Dept. of Digital Media, Drexel University: (215) 895-2056 <br>
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Ebon Fisher: http://www.NERVEPOOL.NET, [email protected], (609) 894-2390 </p>
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SCHEDULE of EVENTS: <br>
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<p><img src="snow_+_Zoacode_forked.jpg" width="600" height="450" border="2"><br>
<span class="style6">Larval Zoacode Over Snow, Ebon Fisher, 2005 </span></p>
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Wednesday March 30th, 5-7 pm: <br>
Exhibit opening and reception with the media artist <br>
<span class="style12"><em>LARVAL ZOACODES OF THE NERVEPOOL</em></span><br>
Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Nesbitt Hall <br>
Dept. of Media Arts & Design (MAD) <br>
DREXEL UNIVERSITY <br>
33rd & Market Streets, Philadelpha <br>
(Exhibition runs Mar. 28 - April 14) <br>
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As a special focus to his 2005 Rankin Residency at Drexel, Ebon Fisher will zero in on some of the odd, aesthetic issues arising from his efforts to cultivate a public network language. For his exhibit at the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery he has developed a set of primitive network forms (Larval Zoacodes) which he merges with photographs. Peculiar dramas emerge between the everyday forms captured by his camera and an overlay of "larval, unresolved networks." Perceived structure and explicit structure melt into an unsettling, hybrid sauce. <br>
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Joining the Larval Zoacodes will be a sample of Fisher's more street-friendly Zoacodes and a preview of a music video for The Nervepool. <br>
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Tuesday April 12th: <br>
--Reception with media artist, Ebon Fisher, 6pm <br>
--Lecture, 7pm <br>
<span class="style12"><em>THE NERVEPOOL: CULTIVATING A WORLD IN THE MEDIA JUNGLE</em></span><br>
Ruth Auditorium, Nesbitt Hall <br>
Dept. of Media Arts & Design (MAD) <br>
DREXEL UNIVERSITY <br>
33rd & Market Streets, Philadelpha <br>
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The Nervepool is Ebon Fisher's cross-media confabulation comprising virtual architecture, video and evolving behaviour codes called Zoacodes. Zoacodes (as in living codes) are probing, weblike entities suggesting multiple ways to explore, build social networks and share information. Fisher will discuss the emergence of The Nervepool out of experimental media rituals he conducted in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in the 1990s. He will also introduce The Nervepool's virtual architecture, the Hyperhive, which serves as a virtual shrine to open dialogue. With its myriad poles, terraces and passages converging on an open space, the Hyperhive represents, according to Fisher, "a pregnant void where collective expression is free to emerge." <br>
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Fisher says he has developed The Nervepool's content (along with its digital files) like "a swarm of pet organisms" in parallel with his life and a rapidly evolving array of media tools. <br>
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"Cultivating a world in the media is similar to product branding," says Fisher, "but it's a lot messier and far more personal." Fisher will discuss how his efforts to evolve the Nervepool involved a prolonged, passionate struggle with junglelike media conditions. <br>
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Lecture, Thurs. April 14th, 4pm <br>
<span class="style12"><em>WIGGLISM: CULTURE AS MUTUAL INTERCODING</em></span><br>
Ruth Auditorium, Nesbitt Hall <br>
Dept. of Media Arts & Design (MAD) <br>
DREXEL UNIVERSITY <br>
33rd & Market Streets, Philadelpha <br>
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Ebon Fisher will present a series of slides, diagrams and animations which offer a view of culture as a hive of interacting systems. Architecture is likened to an operating system in which ritual activities within its walls process minds and behaviours. Roads, telecommunications and social networks can be seen as a nervous system integrating buildings and organizations. Various intensities of discord, from wars to conversations, are likened to zones of re-coding and chaotic integration. <br>
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"Love-making is an ideal form of intercoding," says the media artist. "The intercoding takes place in a symphony of verbal, gestural and, for some, genetic activity." <br>
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Ebon Fisher will read from his Wigglism Manifesto, a call to scientists and artists alike to approach their work as a form of "interactive cultivation --not of facts, objects or beauty, but of vital lifeforms, codes, ecosystems and networks." He will discuss an array of "media rituals" he conducted in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in the 1990s which provided Fisher with insights into the intercoding tendencies of humans, machines and even other species. These community-based media events helped to seed what has become a landmark arts district in North Brooklyn. </p>
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