Over
the last couple of years, the focus of Nick Crowe's work has been
on different forms of internet use. In particular, online communities
and the iconography of personal homepages have recurred as themes
across a number of works in different media. Works that have resulted
included 'The Citizens' (1999), a Book Works/Artec publication reworking
the look of private websites, and 'The New Medium' (2000), which
examined the growing use of cyberspace as a spiritual medium.
Recent
international exhibitions include 'Look and Feel' (2000) at Buro
Friedrich, Berlin; 'Double Feature: Nick Crowe and Gary Hill' (2000)
at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; 'Short Stories' at Fabbricca
Del Vapore, Milan, and 'A Fair Place' (2001) at Istanbul Museum
of Contemporary Art. Crowe also co-produced 'Mugger Music' (1997),
a performance in New York City commissioned by the Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council, and in 1998 he exhibited 'The 10 Point Plan for
a Better Helsinki' at the KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki,
Finland.
Forthcoming
projects include 'Travelogue', at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester,
and 'Tristero', a Film and Video Umbrella online project. Other
digital pieces have included 'One Day and All of the Night', a web
cam piece produced for World Aids Day 1996 and 'SERVICE2000', a
'cybersquatting project', which used available domain names similar
to those of private and publically funded galleries to create parallel
websites with their own specific graphic style.
Alongside
his work as an artist, Crowe has also worked as Director for the
Annual Programme, Manchester (1995-2001) and was a member of the
organising committee of the Manchester Pavilion for the Venice Biennale
2001.
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