[ISEA95] Panel: Greg Garvey — Panel Statement

Panel Statement

Panel: Gender and Technology

In the face of continuous leaps in technology, male digital artists seem especially prone to such deviant conditions as pixel envy, hard drive inadequacy, the CPU territorial imperative, premature exhibitionism, and recidivist high tech onanism. While the truly avant-garde induces tremors in the established order, the techno-garde impostor brandishing the cuffing edge substitutes intimidation and a misdirected adolescent desire to shock, and is unwittingly at the service of a rear-garde, uncritical modernist faith in the progress of technology inherited from the rationalist program of the enlightenment.

  • Greg Garvey (Canada)  is Assistant Professor in the Department of Design Art at Concordia University (Montreal) and member of the ISEA95 Artistic Organizing Committee. He was awarded first prize in the Interactive Art Category at the 1994 Toronto Digital Media Awards. After receiving his Masters at MIT, he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and taught at several universities and colleges in the Boston area.