Translocality (trans’lo-kale-te’) tr.v.

[BIOGRAPHIES OF (some of the) VIDEO ARTISTS]
Linda Wallace is an artist and media specialist. She is the director of machine hunger. The company has co-ordinated projects in Sydney, Canberra, Germany, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Thailand, Austria, Hungary, China and the UK. Clients include: Digital Equipment Corporation, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Australia Council, the Australian Film Commission, CSIRO, and the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing. In October 1999 machine hunger coordinated an exhibition of Australian new media arts at the Australian Embassy in Beijing, in the PeopleÕs Republic of China. The exhibition, called PROBE was curated by Linda Wallace and assisted by the Australia-China Council, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Linda Wallace recently completed the video lovehotel based on australian artist Francesca Da Rimini's adventures in cyberspace, from 1994-97, as detailed in the artist's upcoming book, Fleshmeat. The work was assisted by the Australian Fillm Commission. This video premiered at the Sydney Film Festival in June 2000, was also in the Tenacity exhibition of new media in Zurich, and will show at the World Wide Video Festival in Amsterdam in September 2000, at Mixmove in Paris and also at ISEA in Paris, December 2000. Linda Wallace is currently studying for a PhD in Fine Arts (new media) at the Australian National University, Canberra. In 1998 she was awarded a PhD fellowship from the Advanced Computational Systems Cooperative Research Centre, based at the ANU, Canberra. Her most recent speaking engagement was the Inhabiting Technologies conference at the ICA in London in March 2000, where she discussed PROBE.

Bill Viola received a BFA from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. He was interested in performance and in electronic music and was a drummer in a rock band from 1968 to 1972. Describing his concentration in video in the early 70s, Viola says, "The crucial thing for me was the process of going through an electronic system, working with these standard kinds of circuits became a perfect introduction to a general electronic theory. It gave me a sense that the electronic signal was a material that could be worked with. This was another really important realization. Physical manipulation is fundamental to our thought processes‹just watch the way a baby learns. It's why most people have so much trouble approaching electronic media. When electronic energies finally became concrete for me, like sounds are to a composer, I really began to learn. Soon I made what was for me an easy switch over to video. I never thought about [video] in terms of images so much as electronic processes, a signal." Viola describes his early single-channel tapes both as "songs" and as ³visual poems‹allegories in the language of subjective perception." His early investigations into the medium, including The Space Between the Teeth (1974) and Truth through Mass Individuation (1976), employ formal strategies associated with structural film that also operate as metaphors for transcendent vision, creativity, and symbolic transformation/illumination‹themes that preoccupy Viola's later work, including Sweet Light (1977) and Chott el Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat) (1979). Viola was one of a group of artists who founded Synapse Video/Cable TV Center in Syracuse, New York, one of the first alternative media centers in New York State. In 1973 ,Viola and several musicians formed the Composers Inside Electronics Group which performed David Tudor's Rainforest and other works internationally. In 1975, he worked as the director of Art/Tapes/22, an artist production facility in Florence, Italy. Viola was an artist-in-residence at the WNET's Television Lab from 1976-80 and at Sony Corporation, Atsugi, Japan in 1980.

TEXTS:
Modernity at Large:
Interview with Arjun Appadurai By Anette Baldauf and Christian Hoeller
http://www.translocation.at/d/appadurai.htm

Andreas Broeckman:Networked Agencies http://www.v2.nl/~andreas/texts/1998/networkedagency-en.html

Tetsuo Kogawa:Two or Three Things I Know About the Streaming Media http://anarchy.k2.tku.ac.jp/non-japanese/20000926netcongestion.html