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Tagny Duff Artist Statement The relation between participants and the event is the starting point for my investigation into the production of knowledge, the status of the physical body, technology and apparatuses of power. I incorporate various media including video, networked webcams, interactive websites, sound installation, text and performative strategies to design participatory events and actions. Often, the work is collaboratory, and created through a network and team of artists, computer programmers, technicians, event coordinators, and various invited and incidental participants. This network and mode of creation is as integral to the form and content of work, as is the media format used to deliver the event. In the contemporary climate of specialization and high tech spectacle, the work I facilitate and design highlights notions of technological failure, human and electronic fragility, and the marginalized status of the physical body. The work is often exploratory and critical of ubiquitous biotechnological systems, notions of "interactivity", and network systems (socio-political and technological) as they circulate within artistic, scientific, social and cultural architectures of knowledge and modes of production. The intention is often to illuminate and re-examine the unspoken and codified social protocol, social contracts, and voices of control and agency implicit in the use, access to, and design of these technologies.
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