______________________Judge N0 7_ Carey Young________________________
what are you most happy to be descibed as? (please tick)
journalist ( x )
art photographer ( )
net artist ( )
net art watcher/lover/doer
corporate consultant in IT ( x )
curator - in waiting ( x )
renaissance woman ( )
more of a millenial woman
other (Please describe) - artist making work about technology and utopia
(sometimes web, photography, clay, video, collaborative works, texts...)
1)what was the title of the MA thesis you wrote for the MA in Photography
that you completed at the Royal College of Art in 1997?
erm, it was called 'Being There: Site Specific Installation on the Net'
2)what is the name of the book you critiqued by William T Mitchell
in your Ma Thesis?
Actually it was published in Mute, was not in my thesis - book called 'City
of Bits'
3)Which famous science fiction writers gave you their personal
visions of the city of the future?
It was actually their tutorials on what cyberspace should look like, their
judgements based on a set of my own black and white documentary photographs
of chrome plated epic-scaled architecture
- William Gibson, JG Ballard, Robert Anton Wilson, Doris Lessing, Pat Cadigan
4)Name 4 magazines and journals, publications that you have written
articles for?
The Times Newspaper, Wired (UK), Mute, Creative Technology, Great (the
magazine for the Photographers Gallery, London)
I also write under a pseudonym for various magazines
also was a 'virtual reporter' within the world's first TV transmission of
an online 3D virtual world. My avatar wore a Jean Paul Gaultier pink dress
with nipples that spouted lightning at will
5)Name 4 magazines and journals, publications that you have been featured in
erm... Creative Camera (twice, including the current issue dec 97-jan98),
Wired (UK), Artifice, Time Out, also interviewed by Geert Lovink for radio
100, Amsterdam,
also have given a lecture on net art at Lovebytes digital art festival. the
University of Cambridge and the Royal College of Art, London
6)In which gallery spaces have you exhibited your artworks?
National Museum of Photography Film and TV, Bradford
Marieninstitut, Graz
The Tannery, London
The Architecture Foundation, London
Plummet, London
Milan Triennale
Vernikos Centre for the Arts, Athens
Zone Gallery, Newcastle
7)Which prestigious net collective holds your work on the web?
erm, might that be irational.org? pass
8)What is 'Cap Gemini' ?
she says in a Stepford Wife voice: Cap Gemini is a global IT company
providing technology and network strategies and bespoke software for major
corporate clients.
she adds, herself again: It is mainly a european company, ie are not an
american IT company: kewl - and their default browser, across the whole
company, is still defiantly Netscape: kewl
9)What is your relationship with Cap Gemini?
hmm, not bad. I am employed as an artist, to teach their clients about what
the company does, about technology and general ideas about the future of
IT. The aim is that as an outsider I will give a different kind of spin on
their activities and abilities
10)What is your starsign? ha ha ha, well, if you must know it's Taurus
full of bull, ha ha
11)What qualities do you look for in a potential mister net art?
well, a slinky, well-honed and daring ability to code, to sling code for
all it's worth into places it was never meant to be. Code which rocks the
world a little, or perhaps moves the earth in my vicinity. This takes
muscles, nerve, and a good brain: my ideal man!
12)What book are you reading at the moment?
The American Technological Sublime, by David Nye
13)What brand of lipstick to you wear?
always: Revlon 'Velvet Touch' in Scarlet Splendour, and alas, they don't
make it any more so any american mister net art candidates who could buy me
some would automatically get my vote
quizmistress - rachel baker
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