1:1 Interface: Every Lisa Jevbratt/C5 (1999) Agonistics: A Language Game Warren Sack (2004) Data Diaries Cory Arcangel (2003) Databank of the Everyday Natalie Bookchin (1996) Datamining the Amazon Angie Waller (2002) Encyclopædia Alan Currall (2000) Faculty of Taxonomy University of Ope… (2004) How I Learned Jennifer and Kevi… (2002) Lungs-London.pl Harwood/Mongrel (2004) Memory Theater Pablo Helguera (2004) Mobile Scout: A Field Guide Julian Bleecker, … (2004) Shelf Life / Drawing Conclusions Edward Poitras (2004) Slippery Traces George Legrady (1995) Soft Cinema: Mission to Earth Lev Manovich (2004) Swipe Beatriz da Costa,… (2002) Template Cinema: Short Films About Flying Thomson & Craighe… (2002) The File Room Muntadas (1994-2004) The Giver of Names David Rokeby 1990 – (in progress) The Status Project Heath Bunting and… (2004) Things Spoken Agnes Hegedus (1999) Treaty Card Cheryl L’Hirondel… (2002-2004) Unmovie Philip Pocock, on… (2002) Visitors’ Profile, Directions 3: Eight Artists, Milwaukee Art Centre, June 19 through August 8, 1971 Hans Haacke (1971)
Databases drive culture. 33 artists take us on an imaginative and subversive ride. The artists presented in Database Imaginary use databases to comment on there uses and to imagine unknown uses. The term database was only coined in the 1970s with the rise of automated office procedures, but the 23 projects in this exhibition – which includes wooden sculptures, movies and telephone user-generated guides to the local area – deploy databases in imaginative ways to comment on everyday life in the 21st century. Using newly inflected forms of visual display arising from computerized databases, the works seem to raise questions about authorship, agency, audience participation, control and identity.