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Michael Takeo Magruder became co-curator of the cyber-kitchen in October 2002.

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The iconic nature of mass media and global communication in our information dependent society provides the point of origin for my work. Each composition consists of digitised international media extracts which have been manipulated and transmuted into aesthetic forms void of factual content. The intention is to reflect upon the dualistic nature of media as both information source and cultural stimulant.

'This table has been loved, gouged, anointed and burnt by the people who¹ve sat at its sides these last 18 years in our London kitchen. Its a genuine social document to the life & times experienced by this house, and the attitudes of those who have left their mark.'

Meeting at The Banff Center, Alberta Canada in Œ89 cathy (UK) and eric (USA)have created a wide spectrum of projects & exhibitions in UK & abroad. Forthcoming collaborative installations: Mercer Union Contempoaray Arts, Toronto, Canada (October/Nov) and "Transromantik" The RBS: London (Nov/Dec).Our work is sited outside of the current commercial climate, drawing upon populist traditions and techniques and unflinchingly employing the naive imagination in order to redefine/re-examine what might constitute the romantic spirit of our age²

"As an artist, I like to explore the spaces that exist between the media. I build short sequences of digital images and bounce them between virtual networks and tangible surfaces. Among other things, I make books, real books with pages you can actually turn.

Standing at the center of our merry-go-round kitchen we watch a world of food spin by. Everything is a few feet away, just barely out of reach. My contribution here is meant to be practical. It should help you measure the distance between the salt-shaker and your plate."

Laurent Sauerwein is an artist, designer, journalist, teacher who lives and works in Paris.

I was born, I live, work, believe, feel, love and make cups of coffee too, online in Bogota, Colombia.

I have grown up trying to understand adult limits. At the end I couldnt comprehend what it was all about. I have two small friends of 2 and 5 years old, who have taught me to recognize the knifes edge.

Organisation: the Resort

About me: Perhaps the most important thing that happened to me in my life apart from being born, was being named s'unya after the sanskrit word "s'unyata"; meaning roughly the equivalent of 'zero', in that it means nothing and infinite at the same time (this is no coincidence, as the concept of zero comes from s'unyata). This paradigm of everything existing simultaneously,and consequently becoming indistinguishable from everything else causes the effective void where no thing can be considered to exist separately from every other thing. As a result I have spent much of my life fascinated by what is 'real' and the processes by which things become 'real'.

I explore these phenomena in any medium, but with the objective, other than form and aesthetic, of the awareness of an audience/user's relationship to the art...looking to actively be involve people in the art for it to be fullycomplete. Interactive art.

Recently I have established with a core of artists a 'guild' of the arts and media called the Resort to help create work or develop ideas.

Pamela G. Taylor is currently an assistant professor of art and art education at The University of Georgia (Athens, GA, USA). She holds a Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University.

Her art and her research centers on learning in and through the arts focusing on technology and social theory. Taylor's articles and book chapters have been published in such journals as Studies in Art Education, The Journal of Art Education, Fate in Review and Women Art Educators. Her most recent publication (co-authored with B. Stephen Carpenter) was entitled "Inventively Linking: Teaching and Learning with Computer Hypertext" published in the National Art Education Association's Journal of Art Education (July 2002).

"My mediums include assemblage, collage, photography, and digital art. In all of these mediums, the design is usually controlled by a grid motif. The subject matter is influenced by both modern and ancient myths.

My favorite myths concern women; but I have been influenced by stories of gods, humankind, and art of the past. The materials I use are found objects, slides, paper, canvas, my computer, and anything else that is available in my studio.

Today I am influenced by the specter of MOVING my home, including the kitchen. I have already donated to charity the baking pans and other miscellaneous receptacles that had been on the top shelves since we moved here. Next we jettisoned the notes, papers, tax forms, etc. that had filled another shelf. Now comes the wrapping and packing of the dishes, cups, glasses, and bowls that I am sure I cannot live without; but I am dreading the task of unpacking and deciding where to place these objects in the new kitchen.

Oops, almost forgot the pantry......to be continued, with images."

Jeremy Owen Turner (b. 1974 Victoria, B.C., Canada) is an inter-disciplinary artist, writer and music composer. He has a BA in Art-History from the University of Victoria where he also studied music composition with John Celona, Christopher Butterfield and John Cole. He is currently exploring the creative possibilities within the pre-existing software architectures of the avatar browsers OnLive Traveler and ActiveWorlds. He is the co-founder of an international artist collective, 536 www.fivethreesix.com in Vancouver, Canada. Turner used to be a regular Arts/Entertainment critic for AOL Canada and website reviewer/interviewer for www.intelligentagent.com in New York. Turner has some recent interviews published on www.ctheory.net , www.rhizome.org, www.extropy.org and articles about avatar culture on www.shift.com. His internet based artwork has appeared on websites and installations in such places as the State University of New York (SUNY), http://www.digitalsouls.com/ (San Francisco), http://www.bazarin.com/ (Sao Paolo, Brazil) and as a guest online artist for GATEways: A Transglobal installation sponsored by the Polycollege Stöbergrasse and Alien Productions in Vienna, Austria. http://alien.mur.at/gateways/partners.html

In mid April 2002, Turner gave a Canada Council funded lecture at the RCA Visual Gallery in St. John's Newfoundland on the subject of Virtual Asia in Cyberspace as the "Saved As A friend" collective with JO Cook and Tammy McGrath had an exhibition in the online art festival there called "Networks". From the Spring of 2002-2003, Jeremy as a representative of 536 will undertake a year-long mentorship with Gu Xiong at the University of British Columbia and the Centre for Contemporary Asian Art to help develop symposia, exhibitions and artwork on avatar worlds such as OnLive Traveler, ActiveWorlds, Blaxxun Interactive's Cybertown and MUSE. As a curator for the 536 collective, Jeremy Turner has recently started the international digital pocket gallery with the Ikatun collective from Boston US and Jess Loseby from England. http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com/www.ikatun.com/digitalpocketgallery

Clinton Nalder specialises in documentary photography, with an emphasis on cultural identity and cultural fragmentation. He currently based in Brisbane, Australia working as a freelance photographer.

In 1997 he completed a major documentary project which saw him living in hippie communes in Northern New South Wales and Far North Queensland over a seven month period. This body of work was used to complete a Batchelor of Photography. Between 1998 and 2001 Clinton was based in London working on photographic projects which included London Phone Boxes, Camel Wrestling in Turkey, Post Soviet life in the Caucaus Region and Modern Iran. He also recently travelled to India to work with local Non Government Organisations on a four month documentation project into Migrant Construction Workers and the use of child labour on construction sites. While in India he also spent time documenting Tibetan refugees living in
the isolated Spiti Valley area of the Himalaya Mountains.

Clinton's work has been exhibited through out Australia and been included in several international exhibitions in China and Europe.