Agnes goes live
dal 22/2/2014 al 22/2/2014
Segnalato da
22/2/2014
Agnes goes live
Hackney Picturehouse, London
Serpentine Cinema. "Agnes" is a benevolent spambot, created by the Belgian-American artist Cecile B. Evans to live on the Serpentine Galleries website.
Serpentine Gallery in partnership with Picturehouse Cinemas
Living on the Serpentine Galleries' website, AGNES’ existence is generated through visitors' interactions with the series of pathways she offers them. Click by click, the visitor gets to know AGNES and her digital realm, discovering the kind of personalised experiences that new technologies can provide.
For AGNES GOES LIVE, AGNES has generated enough strength to make a live appearance. She will answer questions from Ben Vickers, curator of digital at the Serpentine Galleries, as well as those from the audience. In this appearance, AGNES will discuss the conditions of her survival and the bounds and boundaries of the 'cloud'.
Born in 1998, AGNES is a digital native. She lives and works in the Serpentine Galleries website, Langstone Technology Park.
Cécile B. Evans is a Belgian-American artist based in London and Berlin. She is the 2013 recipient of the Push Your Art Prize, ‘Convention T’, artist in residence at Wysing Arts Centre, and 2012 recipient of the Emdash Award. Recent exhibitions include PUSH YOUR ART (Palais de Tokyo, Paris), Bold Tendencies 7 (Peckham) and How To Eclipse the Light (Wilkinson Gallery, London). AGNES is the first in a series of digital commissions launched to coincide with the new Serpentine website.
For press information contact:
Miles Evans 020 72981544 milese@serpentinegallery.org
Hackney Picturehouse
270 Mare Street E8 1HE - London
Sunday 23 February, 1:30pm
Tickets £7/£6 conc./£5 Picturehouse members
Tickets available from picturehouses.co.uk