I found Brooke Singer on eyebeam.org. She is the co-founder of Preemptive Media, an art, technology and activist organization. She is an art professor at Purchase College in NY. Her artwork can be found in several different mediums including websites, digital photography, installations and performances.
Brooke Singer is an artist who believes in sharing herself with the world, via the internet. Her blog is full of links of things that she finds interesting and every one of her sites is full of more links to projects she has either worked on or will be working on in the future. If you start on eyebeam, you can go to her blog, which then links you back to eyebeam and also to one of the projects she is working on. The eyebeam page you reach from her blog describes in more detail the organization she co-founded. From eyebeam, you can actually reach the original website. I found it very astonishing how much of an internet presence she had.
According to eyebeam.org, Preemptive Media is a group of artists, activists, etc. that are interested in creating new venues for public discussion and "alternative outcomes." This group is very much interested in the dynamic between the person as an individual and the person as a user and learner of technology. With such a rapid technology boom, it is very interesting to consider the interaction and changes that people will undergo as newer, faster and more encompassing technology emerges. Preemptive Media, however, does work with different side groups that look into the use of technology against its user. For example, "Zapped! investigates new technology used for product tracking and border control; Swipe exposes information encoded on drivers' licenses and shared without consent; and Moport is an online tool for generating and sharing mobile phone reports." More information then we expect is shared online and with groups or individuals that we would rather not have access to our personal information.
It is rather difficult to find some of her work online, although she has shown in great museums such as Warhol Museum of Art, The Banff Centre, Neuberger Museum of Art, Diverseworks, Exit Art, FILE Electronic Festival, Sonar Music and Multimedia Festival and The Whitney Artport. She explains on her blog that she is currently working on a "large-format photography project based on her Superfund365 website." Most of Brooke Singer's work that I could find were the somewhat practical elements in her website design and photos she has taken of contaminated sites. She briefly discusses the function of the different colors and sections on her website, "superfund.365.org." While I think it is nice to have the variation and changing elements on the screen, I feel as though, content-wise, most of the material is somewhat more in-depth then what the general populace would be interested in. However, if one were knowledgeable, they would probably find the site very, very helpful and the colors and design elements would really help to enhance the interest and usability of the site as a whole.
I am still on a hunt for a visual, tangible representation of her artwork (say, her photography) but for now, this lovely youtube video interview with her about her website (mostly the content and such) will have to suffice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yfsFkC78zE
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