May 24, 2003
Cary Peppermint Conductor # 17 version 4.0
Technolecture
Saturday - 3-6 PM

CARY PEPPERMINT'S CONDUCTOR
NO. 17 ver. 4.0
THE LATEST IN HIS ONGOING
SERIES OF PERFORMANCES

Conductor Number Seventeen V4.0 is Cary Peppermint's most recent version in a continuing series of multi-media performances first conceived by the artist for "PORT", a pioneering exhibition of new media technologies and online strategies initiated by Artnetweb at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in January of 1997.

Peppermint's Conductor performances deal directly and brazenly with issues of mediation by incorporating live video/surveillance technology that requires viewers to observe in simultaneity the actual performance event and the real-time (live) approximation of that event. In Conductor performances Peppermint engages multiple technologies to deliver his own discourse of spoken language and techno music that he terms "Technolectures." Through both high & low technologies including halogen work-lamps, laptop computers, and even a ukulele, Peppermint questions the effectiveness and potential of the "live" performer.

Past performances have included varied performance-art "improv-sessions" including Peppermint conducting his Technolectures from the confines of a pine-box for Conductors Number One and Nine to sealing himself off completely in a 14' by 14' room for "Conductor Number Zero."

Peppermint lives in New York where he consistently disseminates his work through an independent website of information-art called "Restlessculture.net" (http://www.restlessculture.net/). Peppermint's work has been supported by cutting edge institutions such as The Franklin Furnace. He has exhibited internationally in festivals and centers of contemporary art, such as Osnabrück's European Media Art Festival, Walker Art Center's first major survey of internet art, "Beyond Interface" and The Whitney Museum of Art's "Artport." Peppermint's performances have taken place at The Kitchen, Postmaster's Gallery, ISEA and recently at the Center for Contemporary Art in Glasgow.

This event is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Additional support is provided by the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development, Bronx Council on the Arts, The Chase Manhattan Foundation, Citicorp, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Material for the Arts, Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion and the Bronx Delegation of the New York City Council. BRAC also wishes to express our appreciation to US Congressman Josˇ E. Serrano and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for their unwavering support of our efforts to enhance the cultural environment of Bronx citizens and restore our beautiful natural resource (and name sake)- The Bronx River.