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Bio

Travis Hallenbeck
1981, Atlanta, Georgia

AB, Cognitive Science
University of Georgia, 04'

Review

________________2012________________

"Das Archiv des Vergessens"
@ Tages Woche, by Roberto Simanowski

"Als Kunstler will Hallenbeck... durch die Auswahl nicht mehr das Besondere hervorheben. Er will auch nicht eine besondere Geschichte komponieren. ... Es geht einzig darum, die mit dem Internet verbundene Archivierung von Realitat auf ein ertragliches Mass herabzusetzen."

________________2011________________

""That Big Red Button Was Irresistible": Play Station at Postmasters" @ artcritical
by Carla Gannis and Peter Patchen

"Travis Hallenbeck's RPG (Random Party Game) (2011) I found somewhat frustrating. The set up - "Dec 20th, 2012 at 11:30pm" - conjured up all sorts of narrative potential that felt thwarted once I began to interact with the AI."

"I couldn't focus at all on RPG... at the opening."

"Post Internet: Notes on the Internet and Art 12.29.09 > 09.05.10"
by Gene McHugh

"Collect the WWWorld. The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age"
by Domenico Quaranta, Gene McHugh, Joanne McNeil and Josephine Bosma

"...the main manifestation of his art - a daily performance that can be monitored through the traces he leaves on the net...."

"Een tentoonstelling in een e-mail"
by Anna van Leeuwen

"Een paar minuten later ontvang ik een mailtje met 162 mini-plaatjes, die bizar, spannend, nietszeggend of juist heel intiem zijn."

"Net-Art et Folklore du net: des newsgroups aux surfclubs (2/2)"
by Mael Inizan with Camille Paloque-Berges

________________2010________________

"Tinypic video thumbnails" @
Post-Internet, by Gene McHugh

________________2009________________

"flickr.com/photos/cosmic_disciple" & "flickr.com/photos/cosmic_disciple/favorites/" in Best of the Web 2008 @
Art Fag City
by Tom Moody

________________2008________________

"Internet Aware Art; Emotions in Net Art", by Tom Moody

"To get back to the long form ["equivalent of a novel or opera" in Internet art], Travis Hallenbeck's bookmarks have hundreds of examples of "not ready for prime time" art that evoke struggling "little guys" or "lonely girls" right out of Tennessee Williams. The bookmarks alone define the artistic sensibility, there is no self-conscious shaping."

"I Don't Care" & "hey get off me / Because" in
Surfing Clubs: organizing notes and comments, by Marcin Ramocki

"We Did It Ourselves!" @
Light Industry
by Guthrie Lonergan

"We will look at a vague Internet art movement (moment?) still growing -- critical of but subject to technology -- artists in relationship to The Big Database, collecting tiny home video thumbnails, or posting difficult metaphysical questions on Yahoo! Answers (a lot of Travis Hallenbeck and Joel Holmberg), etc. -- regular Internet users as artists -- artists using Google.com -- And with just-as-powerful pieces of online 'amateur content'...."

"Interview with Guthrie Lonergan" @
Rhizome, by Thomas Beard

"Basically, Nasty Nets was all the surfers I'd met through trading links on del.icio.us who'd already been developing a special "taste" in surfing: a fascination with defaults and a certain kind of banal deadpan. (I'll point to Travis Hallenbeck as the obvious best example of this kind of surfing.)"

________________2006________________

"Travis Hallenbeck" @
qotile.net
by Paul Slocum

"Travis Hallenbeck ... is the king of surfing"

"Another Unknown Time" @
guthguth.blogspot.com
by Guthrie Lonergan

"...he fiddles things around on his frontpage from day to day if you keep checking back..."

Offline

________________2012________________

"Humi"
in Grunge Texture @ Xpace, Toronto
organized by Steph Davidson

"Flickr Faves", "Twitter Faves" & "Windows Meta File"
in Collect the WWWorld @
House of Electronic Arts Basel, Basel, Switzerland
organized by Domenico Quaranta

"Netsuke in Hackerman House"
in Peer One @ Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
organized by Kari Altmann

________________2011________________

"Street Fighter II"
in BYOB Games @ Postmasters, NYC
organized by Paul Slocum

"RPG demo"
in Play Station @ Postmasters, NYC
organized by Marcin Romacki & Paul Slocum

"Performance demo"
in Les surfing clubs, avec une pro du clic, Camille Paloques-Berges @
La Gaite Lyrique, Paris
organized by Camille Paloque-Berges

"Mario Paint demo simulation"
in Storefront Video @
Transformer Gallery, D.C.
organized by Natalie Cheung

"SMILEY.BAS" in
"Bring Your Own Beamer Baltimore" @
Open Space, Baltimore
organized by Kari Altmann, Lauren Brick, Margot Malter, and Open Space

"House Scene, Nayarit sculpture (200 BCE/300 CE)"
in QR/ART @
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
organized by Krystal South

"Flickr Faves", "Twitter Faves" & "Windows Meta File"
in Collect the WWWorld @
Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy
organized by Domenico Quaranta

"selected LDPE Tiles"
in Chain Letter @
Golden Parachutes, Berlin
organized by David Horvitz

"Coke Samples/Coke Flavs"
(with Kari Altmann's show "Core Samples") @
Extra Extra, Philadelphia

________________2010________________

"micatravFINAL"
collaboration w/ Micaela Durand in
"Bring Your Own Beamer NYC" @
Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NYC
organized by Rafael Rozendaal

"Brick Mural" @
Extra Extra, Philadelphia

"Mario Paint demo simulation"
(in Nasty Nets video mix) @
Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
organized by Aram Moshayedi

________________2009________________

"summer thumbs 09"
collaboration w/ Guthrie Lonergan in S.A.S.E. @
Printed Matter, NYC
organized by ASDF (Mylinh Trieu Nguyen & David Horvitz)

"Mario Paint demo simulation" in
"Rave Simulation" @
And/Or Gallery, Dallas, TX
organized by Paul Slocum

"glow-in-the-dark LDPE tiles",
"Mario Paint demo",
"MIDI Users' Group" &
"Effected Mario Paint" @
The Church of Crystal Light,
Richmond, VA
organized by Brian Blomerth

"11.AVI", "40.AVI" & "45.AVI" in
Telic Arts Exchange's
Distributed Gallery @
The Public School, Los Angeles, CA
organized by Guthrie Lonergan

"1.AVI", "27.AVI", "39.AVI", "32.AVI", "45.AVI", "11.AVI", "40.AVI", "42.AVI" & "17.AVI" in
Nasty Nets DVD, published by Rhizome @
Sundance Film Festival, Utah

________________2008________________

"1.AVI", "27.AVI", "39.AVI", "32.AVI", "45.AVI", "11.AVI", "40.AVI", "42.AVI" & "17.AVI" in
Nasty Nets DVD, published by Rhizome @
NY Underground Film Festival

________________2007________________

"Effected Mario Paint" @
Eyedrum, Atlanta

"1-bit bitmaps and monotimbral MIDI music" (General MIDI demo, etc.) in
ICE Open House: Net Art @
University of Georgia
w/ John Michael Boling & Rick Silva
organized by Mark Callahan

"MIDI DJ" & "Effected Mario Paint"
in Internet Sleepover
@ Eyebeam, NYC
organized by Bennett Williamson

"Flickr favorites" in
Nasty Nets LA @
Telic Arts Exchange, LA
organized by Sean Dockray

________________2006________________

"smopigha" in Microtel (Teletext
pages for the Dutch TV station NOS)
35th International Film Festival Rotterdam @ Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art & the TENT Centre for Visual Arts
organized by Lektrolab