Panel for the SFU Institute for the Humanities http://www.sfu.ca/sfublogs-archive/departments/humanities-institute/2852_technoscience-and-participation-art-literature-and-the-social-web.html http://www.vjcarriegates.com/carrie-gates-screened-at-simon-fraser-university-for-technoscience-and-participation-art-literature-and-the-social-web/ https://www.facebook.com/events/177405465801650/ http://www.wherevent.com/detail/Institute-for-the-Technoscience-and-Participation-Art-Literature-and-the-Social-Web what performance dialog, conceptual event, live exhibition, medial thesis, curatorial monograph panel without conference, talk without gallery show = platform for translation contingent, guerilla, unofficial, minor, failure, unfinished, intermediary, formless, process, placeholder, concept why internet as social view into technoscience practice on the internet as revealing a new social body distinguishing net practices from others for which the net is a medium (ie. gallery art vs network art) translating net practice to discussion practice (similar? user net vs contingent event - thing w debatable thinghood) how to translate? performative things vs screen interactive things (text/pic w link/share, code w action) (note, x-o-x-o-x.com - site structure = open question as to what constitutes work or works on the net) the practices as empirics (as diverse as users but also replete with memes/folk icons/tropes - tag taxonomy) artists exhibit/present carrie gates - http://vimeo.com/78137798 - ectocism giselle zatonyl dns http://vimeo.com/53656622 helena acosta http://vimeo.com/67094822 Aleph Escobedo / adriana peralta - corona boreal - http://vimeo.com/64409130 darya zorina Garden Party Ballet http://vimeo.com/61765818 miron tee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_TGg4MjjHM dafna ganani http://vimeo.com/45354419 Bios Campbell's Soup video for interactive app carrie gates - pizzabook - http://vimeo.com/81078581 hector llanquin - entrepreneur - https://vimeo.com/80923856