About the Project...
About the Project...
About the Project...
About the Project...
About the Project...

Start of Exhibition: 23 July 2002 - Ongoing

'the cyber-kitchen' is aimed at building a collaborative net.installation with its starting point in the cyber-domestic aesthetic. Currently there are 62 globally based artists involved in this on-going project. Artists are invited to submit proposals and work for inclusion in the cyber-kitchen.

Kitchens are traditionally both the hub of the family home and the icons of domesticity. They are filled with a strange mix of technology in the shape of labour-saving devices mixed with the mundanity of the chipped cup or empty carton. There is a secret rhythm and motion within these objects and surfaces: the endless cycle of consumption and elimination, the formation bacteria and the ritual cleansing of the space.

The cyber-kitchen is non-profit artist collaboration. Co-curated by Jessica Loseby (lead artist) and Michael Takeo Magruder.

 

Navigating Through the Cyber-Kitchen


The cyber-kitchen image is mouse responsive. If the mouse is still the kitchen will 'spin’. By moving the mouse and adjusting its position it is possible to reverse, decrease and almost stop the movement

The cyber-kitchen is time based. Documenting 24hrs of a western woman’s kitchen, visitors to the kitchen will see the kitchen at the time displayed on their own computer, wherever this is in the world. Within the cyber-kitchen image ‘buttons’ over various objects have been created. These ‘buttons’ navigate around the artworks submitted by the collaborating artists. These submitted artworks also act as buttons themselves leading back into the cyber-kitchen. The kitchen undergoes changes over a 24hr period as people enter and leave the space and objects are moved. Individual artworks can also be accessed by the list under the main kitchen image or without entering the kitchen by clicking on the thumbnails in the list of collaborating artists.


As the project progresses, artists will collaborate further to build links and narratives between objects leading both in and out of the kitchen. New objects and associations will be formed and the shape of the kitchen will grow as it's edges and walls blur...

 
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