PaperVeins Biennial 2000: Gallery Exhibition and Arts Festival

Exhibition galleries will be open for all special events

THURS, SEPT 7, 2000
5-7pm, FREE
OPENING NIGHT GALA
Featuring Live Music
"Biotech Brain Dance"
Secret Agent Gel creates some funky tunes directly from your brain waves

SAT, SEPT 9, 2000
3pm, $5
NET.ART SPECIAL PRESENTATION
"The Net.Art Revolution and the Human Body"
Virgil Wong, Friederike Paetzold, Tina La Porta, and James Paterson will present their award-winning web work

SUN, SEPT 17, 2000
3pm, $10
16mm FILM SCREENING
"An Exquisite Corpse"
A collection of rare and beautiful films curated by MIX Festival co-founder Jim Hubbard

SUN, SEPT 24, 2000
3pm, $5
BIOTECH NOVEL READING (ONSTAGE)
The Regressionist by Jill Dearman and Send in the Clones by Jack Waters.

THURS, SEPT 28, 2000
10:30pm, $15
AN EVENING OF CORPOREAL THEATER
Featuring a special dance performance by Andrea Kleine

April's Qualia, directed by Rodney Sappington, starring Varushka Franceschi and Courtneyanne Doody

The Human Form by the PaperVeins Commedia dell'Arte (Jerusha Klemperer, Connie Hall, and April Sweeney)

SAT, OCT 7, 2000
3pm, $5
ARTIST PRESENTATION
William Crow, CB Cooke, Bruce Morrow, Anne Willieme, and Patrick Jacobs will present their work

SAT, OCT 14 , 2000
5-7pm, FREE
WEBSITE SLAM CONTEST and CLOSING NIGHT GALA
Hosted by About.com's Philip Kain

It's the Biennial's Opening Gala and a guy named Secret Agent Gel slaps an electrode helmet onto your head and starts spinning some funky tunes directly from your own brain waves.

Discombobulated, you stagger over to the sleek-looking "GenoChoice" kiosk, and before you realize it, you're scanning in all 3 billion base pairs of your genome. And say, did Mr. Lee Mingwei – the first human male to become pregnant – just walk by?

Read More

9/9 - Net.Art presentation today at HERE's PSNBC Theater. Online video broadcast coming soon.

9/7 - A staggering turn-out for the Biennial's Opening Night Gala. Lots of percolating brain wave activity.

9/4 - Eric has finally tamed his Smart Child. The installation's computerized motion and pressure sensors are now fully functional.

9/3 - SoHo gallery owner Monique and her artist/geneticist Gabriela get a sneak peek at the Biennial and offer rave reviews.

9/2 - Industrial designer extraordinaire BJ Furr arrives in New York City to build the Biennial's net.art computer stations.

8/31 - All the way from The Art Institute of Chicago, faculty artist Eric Wielosinski shows up to install his stunning Smart Child interactive installation.

8/30 - Finished framing and hanging all of Tina's brilliant digital prints, hot off the press and zipped o'er from Australia.

8/29 - Lots of ooo's and ahhh's as we unwrap the work mailed to us by Tatiana and Elizabeth.

8/28 - Annie, the driver of one truck full of PaperVeins art and technology, BONKED into a double-parked Volvo... sending the side mirror flying into a rancorous NYC intersection. Virgil, the fearless curator, braved traffic to retrieve the projectile.

8/27 - Studio visit with Flash master James P and a merry and mesmerizing chat about life and art and the universe. James draws circles around the competition ...

8/26 - Virgil's back at the Hospital with some food-born pathogen sickness (from those yummy late night tacos whilst preparing for the show?!). Some nonchalant nurse leaves the I.V. in so long it starts sucking out blood!

8/25 - Virgil on vacation from webmastering the Hospital to pave the way for PaperVeins

8/24 - William's cat poops all over his new apartment. Thank Buddha -- the Biennial drawings are unsoiled.

Biennial Staff and Credits