<nettime-ann> Turbulence Commission: "iPak - 10, 000 songs, 10, 000 images, 10, 000 abuses"

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Turbulence Commission: "iPak - 10,000 songs, 10,000 images, 10,000 abuses" 
Curated and Engendered by Ajaykumar
http://turbulence.org/works/iPak

"iPak - 10,000 songs, 10,000 images, 10,000 abuses" (iPak) is a playful,
inter-active and participatory art work, that integrates your creativity,
the random generation of works by a computer, and art engendered by
Ajaykumar. iPak synthesises conceptual innovation, social engagement and
therapeutic process: generative art as re-generative force; art-making as a
medicine; inspiration emerging from tragedy; and the notion that social
factors -- such as marginalisation and racism -- cause mental illness.
Ajaykumar has created the foundation for a 'polyphonic' narrative, one
created by many stories -- yours essentially. You can upload still images,
movies, texts, music, sounds, and ideas, to create a dynamic, evolving,
relational entity in cyberspace. iPak fully comes into 'being' through your
participation.

"iPak - 10,000 songs, 10,000 images, 10,000 abuses" is a 2007 commission of
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web
site. It was made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the
Arts. Its production has also been funded by Arts Council England. "iPak"
has been researched, developed, and realised through a digital media bursary
and support from Artsadmin (UK), funded by Arts Council England; as well as
through collaboration with Re-Active (Italy). "iPak" - is a research project
of Goldsmiths University of London, curated and engendered by Ajaykumar.

BIOGRAPHY

Ajaykumar's art and research focuses on 'being': interrogating notions of
'relational being', 'the being of a space', and 'non-anthropocentric being'.
It is concerned with engendering new epistemologies in ontological art
practice: through reappraising Buddhist, Tantric, and Animistic processes;
through investigating the contemporary pertinence of a hypothesis of
'dependent origination' beyond its original Buddhist cultural and religious
significance, particularly with regard spectatorship, ludic, performative,
and pedagogic processes.

Ajaykumar teaches at Goldsmith's College, London. His current courses
include: Technology, Art, and Being; Narrative Construction in Film; Notions
of void, emptiness, and 'an art of spectatorship' in Japanese Art and
Culture; Multi-Media and Site-Specific Art. He is a member of the University
of Arts London Research Centre, Transnational Art, Identity and Nation
(TrAIN); and a co-director of the Shapes Design Studio where he is
collaborating with an architect and product designer to engender furniture,
lighting and gardens that come into 'being' through the play of others.

Ajaykumar studied fine art, film, and performance at Chelsea College of Art
and Design, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London;
the Institute of Education, University of London; and at the Royal College
of Art.

For more Turbulence Commissions, please visit http://turbulence.org

Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Networked_Music_Review: http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade 
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