Winner of Achievement Award

Amy Alexander

Amy Alexander has worked in film,
         video, computer animation and interactive media. Her independent
         work has included both live action and animation, both
         representation and abstraction, often exploring relationships
         between content, formal composition, and temporal or algorithmic
         structures. Amy has taught and worked commercially in video,
         television, and computer graphics. She received a B.A. from Rowan
         College of New Jersey and an M.F.A. from California Institute of
         the Arts. Her work has been exhibited and received awards in
         festivals in the U.S, internationally, and on the World Wide Web,
         including SIGGRAPH, Sinking Creek, Anima Mundi, and FIVA Art
         Online. She is currently active in Internet art and is interested
         in further exploring the integration of interactivity and abstract
         animation.

About the Work:
There has been a recent proliferation of video cameras on the World Wide Web. These cameras provide documentation surveilance and a very specific representation of the camera owners and their surroundings. Ordinary people and places are instantly subject to becoming part of the mass culture - and are potentially also subject to cultural recycling. The Multi-Cultural Recycler in addition to its tongue-in-cheek attempt at performing cultural recycling on ordinary situations also examines the meetings and collisions of all of these disembodied representations out in yberspace. When a visitor accesses the Multi-Cultural Recycler the Recycler selects two or three camera websites at random and stores the latest image from their cameras. The Recycler then performs digital image processing on these images to ecycle them into a new image. The actual process used is also selected at randomチ「 and therefore each access to the Recycler site produces a! !
unique image. Visitors can also look at the source images that comprised their ecycled imageチ「 and they can link to the images' original websites to learn their original context.,Each recycle access results in a unique image - so reload a few times if possible!

Winner's Comments:
This is quite an honor. I've been impressed with the works in the Exposition, and I've enjoyed visiting the other projects' websites and seeing the diversity of the art that is being made for the web. It's great to see the DNP Exposition's supportive role in encouraging artists to explore the use of the Internet in making works that cross conventional geographical and cultural boundaries and that explore the use of the Net itself in commenting on the developing "cyberculture." I'm very pleased to have received an award in the Exposition.
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