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<p><b><i><font face="Geneva"><font color="#5d6d89"><font size="+1">Ebon
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<font face="Geneva"><font color="#5d6d89"><font size="-1">BIONIC CULTURE</font></font></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font face="Geneva"><font color="#5d6d89"><font size="-1">Cultivating
"media organisms" in the plasma of culture and mass communications, Ebon Fisher
refers to himself as a "media breeder." Wired has dubbed him "Mr. Meme" and
New York Magazine has listed him among the "New York Cyber 60." Java Magazine
featured him as a "Visionary of the New Millenium" along with Douglas Rushkoff,
Howard Rheingold, and Mark Pauline. The Guggenheim Museum has presented Fisher's
website in its online CyberAtlas since 1996, which documents the emergence
of cyberculture.</font></font></font>
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<img src="P.S.1_MOMA_Zcode.jpg" width="365" height="159" border="1"> </p>
<p><font face="Geneva"><font color="#5d6d89"><font size="-2">Zoacode, "Equalize Seduction," at P.S.1/MOMA </font></font></font></p>
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<blockquote><font face="Geneva"><font color="#5d6d89"><font size="-1">In 1984
Fisher began investigating the impact of high technology on culture at MIT's
Media Lab and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies. His creative and unorthodox
approach to media earned him the job of teaching the Media Lab's first undergraduate
class, Creative Seeing. After completing his MIT studies, Fisher spent a
couple of years fronting a multimedia rock band, Nerve Circle, and moved
to Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1989. There he began to explore community-based
media rituals, including the<i> Media Compressions, (718) SUBWIRE</i> and
the <i>Web Jam. </i>According to Domus Magazine, Fisher's <i>Web Jam</i>
became a "symbolic climax" to the emerging Williamsburg art and music scene.
That densely tangled, multimedia collaboration, known as "Organism," was
attended by over 2,000 people and lasted for 15 hours. Newsweek dubbed Fisher's
bionic system a "sequel to the rave."</font></font></font> <br>
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<font face="Geneva"><font color="#5d6d89"><font size="-2">LEFT: A
tattoo of a Bionic Code on environmental anthropologist, Erich Schienke</font></font></font>
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<font face="Geneva"><font color="#5d6d89"><font size="-2">RIGHT: Bionic
Code on Japanese Television (via Galapagos Artspace, Brooklyn)</font></font></font></p>
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<blockquote><font face="Geneva"><font color="#5d6d89"><font size="-1">Codifying
his media rituals in a network language, Fisher developed a system of voluntary
ethics called <i>Bionic Codes. </i>These social problem-solving routines eventually
evolved into the media viruses now known as<i> Zoacodes. </i>A wide range
of venues have hosted Fisher's media works, including Boston's Institute
for Contemporary Art, Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Arts, Kölnischer
Kunstverein in Germany, PS1/MOMA, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Kitchen
in New York, a rave with DJ Ritchie Hawtin (Plastikman), numerous street
festivals and nightclubs and a tattoo on environmental anthropologist, Erich
Schienke.</font></font></font>
<p><font face="Geneva"><font color="#5d6d89"><font size="-1">Fisher is
currently cultivating Zoacodes as part of a virtual world called Nervepool.
This alien, gardenlike space, construed as an "operating system for inter-species
communion," has materialized in a variety of projects, including life-sized
architectural studies in his Brooklyn studio, Web television broadcasts for
MIT’s Media Lab and the Venice Guggenheim Museum, and a 3D computer model
built with graduate students at the University of Iowa.</font></font></font>
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<p><font face="Geneva"><font color="#5d6d89"><font size="-2">Fisher's Nervepool</font></font></font></p>
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<blockquote><font face="Geneva"><font color="#5d6d89"><font size="-1">MEDIA</font></font></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font face="Geneva"><font color="#5d6d89"><font size="-1">Ebon
Fisher's media organisms have been discussed in the New York Press, FlashArt,
Domus, Wired, The Drama Review, Newsweek, Die Zeit and several art history
books. Fisher's music has been included in Elliott Sharp's CD anthology of
experimental sound composition, "State of the Union," and his bio-cybernetic
terms have entered a variety of dictionaries and glossaries. Fisher's Bionic
Codes have also appeared in the Wall Street Journal and have been broadcast
by Fuji Television to 10 million viewers in Japan. The Encyclopedia Britannica
has listed Fisher's website as one of the "Best of the Web."</font></font></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font face="Geneva"><font color="#5d6d89"><font size="-1">ACADEMIA</font></font></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font face="Geneva"><font color="#5d6d89"><font size="-1">Ebon
Fisher received a BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1982 and an MS in
Visual Studies from MIT in 1986. He has taught media practice and theory at
MIT, The Massachusetts College of Art, the New School University and the
University of Iowa. He has given lectures at New York University, Sarah Lawrence
College, Bennington College, the University of Washington and Columbia University.</font></font></font>
<p><font face="Geneva"><font color="#5d6d89"><font size="-1">In 1998 Fisher
created a new digital arts program at the University of Iowa called Digital
Worlds and returned to New York in 2001 to help establish the digital arts
at Hunter College. Fisher has instigated a variety of exhibitions and forums,
including a salon for 600 emerging artists in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and
an exhibit at Eastern Connecticut State University linking the rap propaganda
of Public Enemy with the soundbites of Negativland and the Riot Grrrl movement.
He has written for Artbyte, Digital Creativity, the Utne Reader, the New York
Foundation for the Arts and the Walker Arts Center.</font></font></font> </p>
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<font face="Geneva"><font color="#5d6d89"><font size="-2">Zoacodes at the
Museum of Art, University of Iowa</font></font></font> <br>
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