Mark Tribe
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Mark Tribe is an American artist. He is the founder of Rhizome
, a not-for-profit arts organization based in New York City.
He is an Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Studies at Brown University
He is the author of The Port Huron Project: Reenactments of Historic Protest Speeches (Charta, 2010) and the co-author of New Media Art (Taschen, 2006). He received a MFA in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego
in La Jolla, CA. in 1994 and a BA in Visual Art from Brown University
in 1990. He currently resides in New York City and Providence, RI.
Tribe's art work has been exhibited at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, the Ars Electronica
Festival in Linz, and Gigantic Art Space in New York City.
As a curator, Tribe founded the online resource for new media artists Rhizome.org in 1996. He held the Art and Technology Lectures at Columbia University
. Tribe has also organized shows at the New Museum of Contemporary Art
, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
and inSite_05.
His Port Huron Project
(2006–2008) is a collection of reenacted protest speeches from the 1960s and 70's. Mark Tribe sat down with Christina Ulke, and said, " I came up with the idea as a response to the relative lack of political activity at Brown University
, where I teach. As it happens, I went to college at Brown, and when I arrived there as a freshman in 1985, students had set up a shanty town in the center of campus to protest the university’s investments in South Africa. Twenty years later, and three years into a bloody and misguided war, the campus is quiet. No protests, no flyers. And my students never mention the war unless I bring it up. It’s not that they are in favor of the war. On the contrary, when asked, they all say they oppose it. But they don’t think they can do anything to stop the war. Many of them were active in the 2004 election, and were deeply disillusioned by the outcome. Others are just too busy with their own lives to give it much thought. I wanted to do something to help them (and me, for that matter) connect with the sense of possibility that characterized the New Left movements of the 60s and 70s."
In 2006 Mark Tribe and Reena Jana published the book "New Media Art". It has since been re-processed onto the web through the wiki.brown.edu website https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/New+Media+Art and is summarized into the following Wiki article, New media art
. Mark Tribe writes about the different types of art forms that can be found within the internet, computer, video and virtual. New Media concerns are often derived from the telecommunications, mass media
and digital
modes of delivery the artworks involve, with practices ranging from conceptual to virtual art
, performance
to installation
.
Rhizome (art)
Rhizome is a not-for-profit arts organization, that supports and provides a platform for new media art.-History:Artist and curator Mark Tribe founded Rhizome as a small email list in 1996 while living in Berlin. By August, Rhizome had launched its website, which by 1998 had developed a significant...
, a not-for-profit arts organization based in New York City.
He is an Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Studies at Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
He is the author of The Port Huron Project: Reenactments of Historic Protest Speeches (Charta, 2010) and the co-author of New Media Art (Taschen, 2006). He received a MFA in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
in La Jolla, CA. in 1994 and a BA in Visual Art from Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
in 1990. He currently resides in New York City and Providence, RI.
Work
Mark Tribe has focused on developing a critical understanding of the complex and interdependent relationships between technology and culture. Tribe's engagement with new media art has been motivated less by a fascination with new media technologies themselves than by a recognition that, in the hands of artists, these technologies can open up unexpected forms of political action, cultural participation, and aesthetic experience.Tribe's art work has been exhibited at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, the Ars Electronica
Ars Electronica
Ars Electronica is an organization based in Linz, Austria, founded in 1979 around a festival for art, technology and society that was part of the International Bruckner Festival. Herbert W. Franke is one of its founders. It became its own festival and a yearly event in 1986. Its director until 1995...
Festival in Linz, and Gigantic Art Space in New York City.
As a curator, Tribe founded the online resource for new media artists Rhizome.org in 1996. He held the Art and Technology Lectures at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
. Tribe has also organized shows at the New Museum of Contemporary Art
New Museum of Contemporary Art
The New Museum, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to presenting contemporary art from around the world...
, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, commonly referred to as MASS MoCA, is a museum in a converted factory building located in North Adams, Massachusetts, USA. It is one of the largest centers for contemporary visual art and performing arts in the country.MASS MoCA opened with 19...
and inSite_05.
His Port Huron Project
Port Huron Project
The Port Huron Project, is a series of six reenactments of protest speeches from the New Left movements of the 1960s and '70s. Each event takes place at the site of the original speech, and is delivered by a performer to an audience of invited guests and passers-by...
(2006–2008) is a collection of reenacted protest speeches from the 1960s and 70's. Mark Tribe sat down with Christina Ulke, and said, " I came up with the idea as a response to the relative lack of political activity at Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
, where I teach. As it happens, I went to college at Brown, and when I arrived there as a freshman in 1985, students had set up a shanty town in the center of campus to protest the university’s investments in South Africa. Twenty years later, and three years into a bloody and misguided war, the campus is quiet. No protests, no flyers. And my students never mention the war unless I bring it up. It’s not that they are in favor of the war. On the contrary, when asked, they all say they oppose it. But they don’t think they can do anything to stop the war. Many of them were active in the 2004 election, and were deeply disillusioned by the outcome. Others are just too busy with their own lives to give it much thought. I wanted to do something to help them (and me, for that matter) connect with the sense of possibility that characterized the New Left movements of the 60s and 70s."
In 2006 Mark Tribe and Reena Jana published the book "New Media Art". It has since been re-processed onto the web through the wiki.brown.edu website https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/New+Media+Art and is summarized into the following Wiki article, New media art
New media art
New media art is a genre that encompasses artworks created with new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art, computer robotics, and art as biotechnology...
. Mark Tribe writes about the different types of art forms that can be found within the internet, computer, video and virtual. New Media concerns are often derived from the telecommunications, mass media
Mass media
Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...
and digital
Digital
A digital system is a data technology that uses discrete values. By contrast, non-digital systems use a continuous range of values to represent information...
modes of delivery the artworks involve, with practices ranging from conceptual to virtual art
Internet art
Internet art is a form of digital artwork distributed via the Internet. This form of art has circumvented the traditional dominance of the gallery and museum system, delivering aesthetic experiences via the Internet. In many cases, the viewer is drawn into some kind of interaction with the work...
, performance
Performance
A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which a performer or group of performers behave in a particular way for another group of people, the audience. Choral music and ballet are examples. Usually the performers participate in rehearsals beforehand. Afterwards audience...
to installation
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
.
Projects
- Port Huron Project: remakes of historic protest speeches (2006 - ongoing)
- Bodybuilder Webcam: an online art project for Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery (2004)
- Revelation 2.0: an online art project commissioned by Computer Fine Arts (2003)
- Revelation 1.0: an online art project commissioned by Amnesty International (2002)
- StarryNight: an alternative interface to Rhizome.org’s text archive (1999)
- Traces of a Constructed City: an online art project for Computer Aided Curating (1995)
- Carpark: a site specific public art project for inSITE '94 (1994)
- Apparitions: a virtual reality environment and installation for inSITE '94 (1994)
Publications
- "Cory Arcangel: An Interview by Mark Tribe." Uovo Magazine, no. 11. 252-265.
- New Media Art. Cologne: Taschen Verlag. With Reena Jana.
- "Wiki Directory of Academic Art and Technology Programs." With Michael Naimark.
- "Tijuana Calling," Atopia Journal, October 2005. 69-75.
- Curatorial essay. ARCO'05 Catalogue. Madrid: ARCO/Ifema, Feria de Madrid. 697-700.
- "Symposium: Metamorphosis of Artists' Rights in the Digital Age," Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts. Vol. 28, No. 4. Transcript of panel remarks.
- Eyebeam reBlog . Guest editor, July 10–23, 2005.
- 2003 "The Global Media Art Community." Web Fictions: Dispersed Presences in Electronic Networks. Ed. Manfred Fassler, Ursula Hentschlaeger, Selko Wiener, eds. New York: Springer. 134-137.
- "Rhizome TextBase, Rhizome ArtBase, Rhizome Ephemera." Interarchive: Archival Practices and Sites in the Contemporary Art Field. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter Koenig. 263-265.
- "Hot List," ArtForum, March 2001.
- Transcript of lecture. B.Read /6: Curating New Media. Ed. Sarah CookSarah Cook (curator)Sarah Cook is a Canadian scholar, historian and curator in the field of New Media art, who is based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Cook is a Research Fellow at the University of Sunderland, where she works with the research institute CRUMB – Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss, that she co-founded...
, Beryl Graham, Sarah Martin. Gateshead: Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. - Foreword. Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press.
- "Net Games Now." Game Show Catalogue. North Adams: MASS MOCA. 54-67.
- "Email Performance." Zing Magazine. Issue 12. 180-194.
External links
- Mark Tribe's home page
- New Media Art freely available in Wiki format
- An interview with Mark Tribe regarding the Port Huron Project in The Journal of Aesthetics Protest
- Collection of courses taught and art and technology university programs
- Projects and Education
- New Media Art WikiNew media artNew media art is a genre that encompasses artworks created with new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art, computer robotics, and art as biotechnology...
- Brown Research University
Sources
- Mark Tribe and Reena Jana, New Media Art, Taschen, 2006. ISBN 3822830410.
- Foreword. Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN 0262632551.
- Kennedy, Randy. "Giving New Life to Protests of Yore", The New York Times, July 28, 2007.
- Tribe, Mark, "Research Description" http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Mark_Tribe April 29, 2008