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Gate Pages :: August
01: Cary Peppermint
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Cary Peppermint's
work involves a broad conceptualist approach to new media technologies.
He often-times combines performance and the web to permeate a multitude
of networks within and beyond the internet. Peppermint applies recombinant
strategies to commercial sites and publications, such as Ebay.com,
Evite.com, The New York Daily News, Artforum and Mp3.com, and employs
them as carriers of his interactive compositions of chance or "restless
culture." Peppermint's works comprise some of the first real-time
performance art realized via the internet including "The Mashed Potato
Supper" as part of Edinburgh's Fringe Film and Video Festival in 1995
and "Conductor Number One" included in PORT: Navigating Digital Culture
in 1996. Peppermint lives in New York where he consistently disseminates
his work through his independent website of information-art called
"Restlessculture.net."
His work has been exhibited in international festivals and centers
of contemporary art, such as Osnabruck's European Media Art Festival
and Walker Art Center's first major survey of internet art, "Beyond
Interface." Peppermint's performances have taken place at The Kitchen,
Postmaster's Gallery, and ISEA, as well as numerous other venues and
art spaces. He is a 2001 recipient of a Franklin Furnace Performance
Art Grant in support of his upcoming hybrid-media performance-installation
entitled "Conductor Number Zero" which is scheduled for release in
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