Thursday, April 08, 2004

Yael Kanarek

Yael Kanarek is a new media artist. She has been developing her integrated media project World of Awe (http://www.worldofawe.net) since 1995. At the core of World of Awe is The Journal—an original narrative that uses the ancient genre of the traveler’s tale to explore the connections between storytelling, travel, memory and technology.

Selected for the Whitney biennial 2002, Ms. Kanarek is a recipient of the Jerome Foundation Media Arts grant, the New York Foundation for the Arts 2001 fellowship award and the Alternative Museum Digital Commission 2000. She has been an artist-in-residence at Harvestworks collaborating on Music for World of Awe with composer Yoav Gal. In 2002 she completed Chapter 2 of the Traveler’s Journal commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Recently, Ms. Kanarek launched an interactive net.dance in collaboration with dance filmmaker Evann Siebens, commissioned by Turbulence.org and was R&D resident at Eyebeam, collaborating with bnode architecture studio on the mRB project. Ms. Kanarek is represented by Bitforms gallery in New York City.

World of Awe has been written about in the New York Times, Le Monde Interactif, Tema Celeste, Art News, Time Out, Flash Art Italy, Firma, Paper Magazine, The Industry Standard, Wired, The Journal News and ArtByte, and participated in festivals and exhibitions in Brazil, Italy, France, England, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Israel, Korea and the USA.

In October 2002 World of Awe was awarded the CNRS/UNESCO Lewis Carroll Argos prize in France and in June 2003 Ms. Kanarek won the 1st prize in the Netizens International Net Art competition in Rome, Italy.

Ms. Kanarek produces The Upgrade! A monthly gathering of new media artists and curators in New York City hosted by Eyebeam (http://www.treasurecrumbs.com/theupgrade) and lectures about net art around the world.