Finding TrackHouse/Psychedelic Chick, 2009hybrid reality installation, performance, sculpture, installation, live streaming, comic book documentation, relational, animated website

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Finding TrackHouse/Psychedelic Chick is the possibility of disappearance. It is the possibility of reemergence. It is elusive and slippery. It is a creative spirit harnessed. It is projected and played in mixed reality, weblandscape and earthplane. It is always moving and forever expanding. Like a mushroom carpet...it will be spreading, creating a magical weblandscape of psychedelic interactive play. It is interactive installation and performance - a searching, a reaching out, an exploitation of the web 2.0 paradigm, a questioning of boundaries through technological bridging, creating a diving board for artistic exploration of a medium - the internet - that has been principally the domain of commerce and popular culture.

This project flows between well established and emerging forms of internet technology and behaviours. Using every available innovation - websites, social networking, instant messaging, online auctions, media sharing, virtual worlds, mixed realities, gaming and viral communication - the aim is to co-opt those modes of presentation and dissemination.

The artists invite other artists to become an integral part of a visual and aural, ever-expanding collage stretched over networks and interstitial space. In the cracks and crevices, the offered artwork will be inserted and melded into a fluid and cohesive experience. The viewer/user will move seamlessly from network to network. The project owned many domain names - URLs that link or lead into the piece at multiple nodes and intersections.

Alter-ego creation is a cornerstone strategy of the proposed work. All online communities whether they be a dating website or political blogging, are landscapes of anonymity. The possibilities of re-forming yourself psychologically and physically are infinitely seductive and addictive. Critical concern and fascination around who a person ‘really’ is versus how they are representing themselves litter the internet. Allowing that extremely human impulse to be a driving tenet of Finding TrackHouse harnesses people’s obsessions to the art.

Finding TrackHouse creates an artistic forum in which artists and visitors share a role in navigating through its physical and non-physical spaces. In its installation at the Red Head Gallery, the exhibition offered an immersive simulation of the visual idioms of its innumerable domain counterparts: the PychedelicChick.com website, and Facebook profiles. Finding TrackHouse is projected and played in mixed reality, a web-landscape that spans the gallery and the surface of multiple monitors. The work expands on Kim Mitseff’s ongoing TrackHouse, a virtual platform and event for creative, inventive and free-minded thinkers. Together with Lynne Heller’s weaving of disparate iconic and conceptual elements, an intricate and dense set of narratives play within fields of psychedelic pattern, and aesthetic delight.

Finding TrackHouse is projected and played in mixed reality, a web-landscape that spans the gallery and the surface of multiple monitors weaving disparate iconic and conceptual elements into playful fields of psychedelic pattern, and aesthetic delight.

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Finding TrackHouse/Psychedelic Chick, 2009hybrid reality installation, performance, sculpture, installation, live streaming, comic book documentation, relational, animated website

swipe/drag image

Finding TrackHouse/Psychedelic Chick is the possibility of disappearance. It is the possibility of reemergence. It is elusive and slippery. It is a creative spirit harnessed. It is projected and played in mixed reality, weblandscape and earthplane. It is always moving and forever expanding. Like a mushroom carpet...it will be spreading, creating a magical weblandscape of psychedelic interactive play. It is interactive installation and performance - a searching, a reaching out, an exploitation of the web 2.0 paradigm, a questioning of boundaries through technological bridging, creating a diving board for artistic exploration of a medium - the internet - that has been principally the domain of commerce and popular culture.

This project flows between well established and emerging forms of internet technology and behaviours. Using every available innovation - websites, social networking, instant messaging, online auctions, media sharing, virtual worlds, mixed realities, gaming and viral communication - the aim is to co-opt those modes of presentation and dissemination.

The artists invite other artists to become an integral part of a visual and aural, ever-expanding collage stretched over networks and interstitial space. In the cracks and crevices, the offered artwork will be inserted and melded into a fluid and cohesive experience. The viewer/user will move seamlessly from network to network. The project owned many domain names - URLs that link or lead into the piece at multiple nodes and intersections.

Alter-ego creation is a cornerstone strategy of the proposed work. All online communities whether they be a dating website or political blogging, are landscapes of anonymity. The possibilities of re-forming yourself psychologically and physically are infinitely seductive and addictive. Critical concern and fascination around who a person ‘really’ is versus how they are representing themselves litter the internet. Allowing that extremely human impulse to be a driving tenet of Finding TrackHouse harnesses people’s obsessions to the art.

Finding TrackHouse creates an artistic forum in which artists and visitors share a role in navigating through its physical and non-physical spaces. In its installation at the Red Head Gallery, the exhibition offered an immersive simulation of the visual idioms of its innumerable domain counterparts: the PychedelicChick.com website, and Facebook profiles. Finding TrackHouse is projected and played in mixed reality, a web-landscape that spans the gallery and the surface of multiple monitors. The work expands on Kim Mitseff’s ongoing TrackHouse, a virtual platform and event for creative, inventive and free-minded thinkers. Together with Lynne Heller’s weaving of disparate iconic and conceptual elements, an intricate and dense set of narratives play within fields of psychedelic pattern, and aesthetic delight.

Finding TrackHouse is projected and played in mixed reality, a web-landscape that spans the gallery and the surface of multiple monitors weaving disparate iconic and conceptual elements into playful fields of psychedelic pattern, and aesthetic delight.

Press Release

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