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Hall, Jennifer

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Much of my work concentrates my discontent between the promises of new media and the actual human condition. Our technologies are extensions of ourselves, to reference McLuhan. Eventually, I believe, they become part of us. They re-direct our culture through their utilitarian leverage and then they infiltrate our very character. Nothing we make is merely a tool- it is a reflection of who we are and in the noblest arrangement, what we wish to become.

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    2006 Rockefeller New Media Foundation Proposal
    Hall, Jennifer (2009-05-07T15:28:19Z)
    A community based research project, which cumulates in an interactive sculptural installation. "The Tipping Point Machine", is sited for the Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts in 2006 and is expected to travel thereafter. For this project, the complex relationships between body, health, self, and community are examined from a combined anthropological and artistic perspective. Health care narratives have been collected from artists living in the Boston South End neighborhood. The focus is on the small events (tipping points) in the lives of these artists that have changed their understanding of self, health and body and art making. From this research, an interactive robotic sculpture is being designed which reflects on seven of these individual narratives.
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    2005 Rockefeller New Media Foundation Proposal
    Hall, Jennifer (2007-01-12T15:30:13Z)
    A community based research project which cumulates in an interactive sculptural installation, "The Tipping Point Machine", sited for the Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, April, 2006. The sculpture will be designed and built to travel. Collecting information through the lens of cultural anthropology, health narratives from artists living in the South End neighborhood of Boston become content for building an interactive sculptural installation. The complex relationships between body, health, self, and community will be examined from a combined anthropological and artistic perspective.