| diana mcclure |
| text + photo + new media |
| 2007 - 2008 www.cultureserve.net - Web Installation. An art and culture news website dedicated to diverse global voices and projects in art and culture. Cultureserve gathers, analyzes and disseminates information on art, culture and individuals, in an effort to create intersections and pathways across race, gender, class, age, nationality and, “high” and “low” art. Cultureserve's placement of diverse subject matter in a shared digital space of dialogue disrupts notions of identity organized around the body and guides the gaze within to penetrate the skin in search of the spirit. As a result, art + culture become a platform to explore the human condition in the 21st century while simultaneously re-defining the “value” of art in contemporary culture. view project Cyberspace/New York 2003 – 2004 Envisioning the Future - Judy Chicago project - Jury selected participant - Digital Media group. A 6 month interdisciplinary project involving arts and education in an effort to imagine, create, and exhibit diverse images of the future. Diana created a DVD called Future Prayers. Through the use of motion graphics, a visual montage of her photographs and e-mails collected from over 40 people via the internet, explored the movement of energy through the mind and its effect on personal and communal change. The e-mails contained thoughts, prayers and meditations on and for the future. The speed of the transition from image to text was designed to generate a range of responses - serenity, desire, frustration - dependent on the viewer’s relationship to his/her inner being and their desire for cognitive understanding. Pomona Pimp Metaphysics: Counter Intelligence (PM:CI) - Web Installation. Interviews with “urban culture brokers” on manipulation & exploitation in American culture from an entertainment, arts, and hip-hop perspective. Designed to infiltrate the entertainment news and gossip space of www.thecrusade.net, the 1-year web installation culminated in an on-line photo/text work for www.evilmonito.com. The project also explored stream of consciousness responses to the term "conscious capitalism". view project Cyberspace/Los Angeles |