Paradise Lost?
 e-commerce and the Web

  
  Online exhibition: April 6 - May 31, 2001
  Panel discussion: April 18, 4:30 p.m., Betty Rymer Gallery  
 
  Theme:      
  The web is being increasingly shaped and directed by the development and acceptance of e-trading, e-commerce and other commercial activity. Art which makes use of the web as a venue must coexist and compete with an increasing variety of on-line public functions that the web provides and must function within an increasingly distracting virtual world of ad banners, on-line services, and other desktop (real and virtual) clutter. This juried exhibition features web-based art by faculty, students, staff, and SAIC alumni which challenges or subverts conventional notions of the web which are driven by e-commerce and other "practical" uses of on-line technology.  

Jurors for this exhibition:

Annette Barbier
 Director
Center for Art and Technology
Associate Professor
Dept. of Radio, T.V., and Film
Northwestern University
www.rtvf.nwu.edu/people/barbier

Shawn Decker
Associate Professor
Dept. of Art and Technology
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
www.artic.edu/~sdecke

Michael Ensdorf
Associate Dean
Arts and Sciences
 Assistant Professor
School of Communication Roosevelt University

 

Special Thanks to:

Trevor Martin, Betty Rymer Gallery
Rae Ulrich and Cynde Schauper, WWW office

  

 

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