CyberPowWow 04 - Unnatural Resources
www.CyberPowWow.net (URL and Palace address)
Curated by Skawennati Tricia Fragnito and Jason E. Lewis
May 1 & 2, 2004
[1 pm - 6 pm Eastern Time]
For these two days, Nation to Nation, a First Nations/Native American/Aboriginal artist collective, invites you to join us for the opening of a new wing of our Palace and the launch of our newly updated website. You can visit from the comfort of your personal computer, or by going to one of nine designated Gathering Sites across Turtle Island. Community members will log into a combination chatspace, virtual gallery and library that explores issues of contemporary Aboriginal art, technology and community.
For the fourth event (since 1997) in this ongoing series, we ask: What does it mean to claim territory in cyberspace? What are the natural resources of such territory? Can they be exploited? Is cyberspace really infinite? How much can it escape the finite world of wires in the ground, access to computing power, and entrenched modes of thinking? Invited artists Rosalie Favell, Greg A. Hill, Ryan Johnston, Joseph Tekaroniake Lazare and Archer Pechawis use their intimate knowledge of some of the unnatural resources we have determined so far - data, pixels, bandwidth, computing power, networks, access, and attention - to create web-based works that will be launched during CPW04.
Visit to find out about other Gathering Sites, how to join in, and to see work from the previous CyberPowWows. Nation to Nation thanks terminus1525 for their generous support.