Artist Statement

iMine was created to help all of us come to terms with the dark material reality brooding behind the luminous utopianism of the digital age. Through a networked game interface, users are brought into the world of mining raw materials for electronic components.

• Baruch Gottlieb, trained as a filmmaker at Concordia University, has been working in electronic image and sound with specialization in public art since 1999.  He has exhibited globally including: Prince Takamatsu Gallery Tokyo (2005), ZKM Museum for Art and Media Karlsruhe (2011), Dakar Biennial (2002, 2004, 2006), transmediale, Berlin (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012), Gwangju Biennial (2004), Yeosu World Expo (2012),  ISEA2011 Istanbul, LABORAL (2011) and the Canadian Embassy, Berlin (2011). From 2005-2008 he was assistant professor of Media Art at Yonsei University Graduate School for Communication and Arts. He is currently Artist-Researcher in Residence at the Institute for time-based media at the University of Arts, Berlin.

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