Participants in the TECHNE initiative are actively engaged in a dialogue with a diverse group of international artists, theorists, and curators whose research and creative development complement our own interests in the evolving forms of digital art. Some of the guests who have presented their work to students working in the TECHNE lab at CU-Boulder include Cory Arcangel, Ken Wark, Christiane Paul, Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Giselle Beiguelman, John F. Simon Jr., Mark Napier, Johnny Dekam, Natalie Jeremijenko, Mark Tribe, John Klima, Alex Galloway, Marisa Olson, Ben Benjamin, Yael Kanarek, Randall Packer, and Lisa Jevbratt. Check out our video and email interviews and watch streaming artist presentations/performances in our "artists in sight" section.   

TECHNE_STUDIO features a variety of online projects from Graduate and undergraduate students developing new work in the Experimental Digital Arts Studio (EDAS). This area of the site is neatly divided into five areas: artist ebooks, curatorial objects, narrative objects, sound objects, and idea objects. As part of their individual and collaborative projects, students investigate a wide-range of new media forms and theoretical topics including interactive storytelling, VJ performance, machinema, game hacking, net art, new media theory and performance, code art, and experimental ebooks. Our semester-end "happening" parties celebrate the performative nature of the interdisciplinary and collaborative events that take place in the EDAS lab.   

The students in TECHNE are continuously building new curatorial projects to reflect their interests in a varietry of net art genres. Since the genres are known to mix and blur, the students come up with funky names to help contextualize their own curatorial style. In "Net Practice," you'll find collaborative projects with titles like Ambient Zones, Creative Mindshare, (H)activism, Cyborg-Cellves, Digital Narrative, Metascapes, not.art, Image Mapping, and GUI Art. In "TECHNE.studio," the curated exhibitions become interesting net art works in their own right, and include show themes like Art Offensive, Digital Memes, Game Over, Genetic Art, net/comix/art, and Sex, Gender, Identity.   

What happens to practice-based research when it gets teleported to the online space? Metamorphosis. Surf-Sample-Manipulate. Codework. An emerging digital rhetoric that blurs the boundaries between net art, critical theory, and electronic literature. Being a digital artist now means using the net as both a compositional and exhibition medium as well as a social networking tool. Here we explore the work of theoretical classics, hyper/text/theory, open source information architecture, net art and its exhibition context, and innovative multimedia interfaces that reinvent the theoretical essay.