This interference also creates an odd relationship between the artist and multiple anonymous users that is both collaborative and detached. The original material—whether it be text, image, sound or video— is manipulated and reframed by the artist, yet never fully adopted into its new visual vocabulary. The fact that the majority of the content in the pieces featured below is coming from elsewhere than the artists' proverbial hands is key to the very concept of the work.

In doing so, the artists in this exhibition are not only producing crosstalk, they are also producing virtual 'speech acts'—linguistic expressions on the Net that highlight both the flexibility and uncertainty of language in general. The inability to know the true meaning behind a word, an image or a gesture is both the greatest and gravest aspect of what it means to communicate. However, the artists exhibited here are celebrating that tension. Each work testifies to the emergence of a new and highly unstable form of language owed to the complete convergence of media and social interaction on the Net.

More than ever, to express oneself on the Net is, in some ways, to surrender; to accept that the borders between text and image, sender and receiver, self and other, public and private are only myths, and that in our age of the networked society, communication is one and all of these things, overlapping and interconnected.

Evan is an established digital media artist whose body of work is savvy and political, addressing issues of authorship and public space through appropriation and open-source pratices. His repertoire spans many disiciplines and interrelated media ranging from graffiti and illustrative typography to open source technology and net art. which he uses to address issues of authorship, public space and consumerism.

Evan received his bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Maryland and his MFA from the Communication, Design and Technology school at Parsons The New School for Design. After graduating, Evan worked at the esteemed Eyebeam OpenLab as Research and Development Fellow (2005–06) and as Senior Fellow (2006-07). Evan currently lives in Paris with his wife.

Statement by the Artist
Banners and Skyscrapers is a composition created from found internet advertisements in the industry-standard 'banner' and 'skyscraper' dimensions, which form a significant part of the visual and economic fabric of the Internet. In this piece, these advertisements, which are designed to fit at the top and sides of any web page, converge to become the central focus. Banners and Skyscrapers also attempts to archive this early (yet still utilized) type of online advertising, which looks and feels as outdated and awkward as the proportions that define it.

Dina is an American multimedia artist, web designer and playwright who is perhaps best known for her comic strips and illustrations serialized in the Baltimore City Paper, on the humour blog Mutant Funnies and on tinymixtapes.com. Kelberman's comics are minimal but dynamic, and her characters strangely relatable and misanthropic. This duetting of disparate traits carries over into her net-based artwork where Dina curates the found photography and video of others to create a mapping of her own online-experience.

Dina earned her BFA in 2003 at Purchase College, State University of New York. She continues to live and work in Baltimore, Maryland.

Statement by the Artist
I'm Google is an ongoing Tumblr blog in which batches of images and videos that I cull from the internet are compiled into a long stream-of-consciousness. The batches move seamlessly from one subject matter to the next based on similarities in form, composition, color, and concept. This results in a visually colorful grid that slowly changes as the viewer scrolls through it. Images of houses being demolished transition into images of buildings on fire, to forest fires, to billowing smoke, to geysers,to fire hoses, to spools of thread. The site is updated constantly batch-by-batch; sometimes in bursts, sometimes very slowly.

This work came out of my natural tendency to spend long hours obsessing over Google Image searches, collecting photos I found beautiful and storing them by theme. I feel that my experience of wandering through Google Image Search and YouTube hunting for obscure information and encountering unexpected results is a very common one. I'm Google serves as a visual representation of this phenomenon. The ability to endlessly drift from one topic to the next is the inherently fascinating quality that makes the internet so amazing.

Cynthia is a Brooklyn-based digital artist, technologist and educator. She began her art practice with a focus on her native Colombian identity and developed several artworks that looked at how the media covered, critiqued, represented, and misrepresented the social and political realities of that country. Accordingly, recent work in her oeuvre concentrates on distortions and re-presentations of time and space through the media.

Cynthia's work has been internationally exhibited and performed, including at Giacobetti Paul Gallery, HERE Arts (NYC), UCLA Hammer Museum (LA) and the Museums of Modern Art in Bogotá and Medellín (Colombia). Cynthia holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá) and a Masters in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University. She is currently the Assistant Professor of Integrated Design for the School of Design Strategies at Parsons The New School for Design. She is also an active member of Madarts—an arts collective based in Brooklyn.

Statement by the Artist
The word "Tricolor" in Spanish describes something with three colors. In the case of this artwork, tricolor refers to the Colombian flag (yellow, blue and red), which is constantly reconfigured, not in its colors but in its content. This project critiques the at-times inherent, but at-times unknown, meanings that are present in a country's symbols, such as its flag. In this piece, the Colombian flag is 'updated' with live news feeds about the country from a variety of online news sources. It therefore states the position of defining a country's most untouchable symbol, not through our relationship with it, but through how others (ie. the media) see, and report on it.

In addition to the colloquial name for the Colombian flag, this project's title also refers to the technological abbreviation of software versions. The "2007 Version" continued to update itself, until the Flash coding no longer worked properly (an ongoing challenge with internet art.) The software has been updated for this launch in 2012.