May 19, 2007
BIOGRAPHY
Penny Leong Browne is an artist and writer who works with hybridity, artificial intelligent systems and computational poetics to investigate the interstices of human and technology interaction. She is interested in exploring the openings and pauses between the analog and digital, materiality and immateriality, and the virtual and the real. Her current work takes the form of experimental narrative, avatar performance, and interactive video. She is currently working on an interactive sculptural work that applies fractal algorithms to translate people’s drawings into 3-D paper sculptures.
She is a member (a.k.a. AliseIborg Zhaoying) of Second Front, an avatar performance group in the virtual world, Second Life, that performs absurdist interventions informed by Situationist International and Dada strategies. She is also attending Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design where she is conducting research on cyborg and avatar beings, virtual leakage, coded realism and mixed reality.
Her writings and digital work have appeared in various art and literary journals including Sub-Terrain, Fuse, The Capilano Review, Dimsum, Other Voices and most recently in Front Magazine. Recent shows include ‘i’ Cyborg 2.0 which was selected for this year’s Signal and Noise Festival, (VIVO Video In/Video Out, Vancouver, Canada), Encounters of the Uncanny, an interactive video installation in which participants interact with avatars by performing bodily gestures (Media Gallery, Emily Carr Institute) and Martyr Sauce, a Second Front avatar performance that interrogated virtual gaming behavior by invading a Rausch combat zone within Second Life.
Upcoming works this fall include an experimental narrative titled “I don’t remember” featured in Nanomajority and an essay titled “Relational Aesthetics in Curating Internet Art” to appear in a monograph published by Cont3xt and presented in Vienna, Austria in November 2007. Her video titled “I Dream About” (in collaboration with David Leith) will screen on October 16th at E32 in New York City.