xtine is a global media artist who engages viewers via the Internet and new technologies. While she has lived and worked in Boston, Berkeley, New York and Los Angeles, her media art has no geographic bounds. Recent web projects include delocator.net, delocator.mapyourcity.net with Beatriz Da Costa, DoSomethingMoreAmazing.com, and mailavirus.net. Selections of her works have exhibited nationwide, including at The San Francisco Art Institute's Walter and McBean Gallery, The Remote Lounge in New York, The Fifth Annual Digital Salon Show at SVA in NY, The Palm Springs Film Festival, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM, and The Anchorage Museum of History and Art; and internationally at Sonar, a multimedia festival in Barcelona, Spain, Prog:ME, a new media festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as well as in international online juried exhibits on Memefest.org, Ubu.org, Binaire.org, and Wigged.net. xtine is an Assistant Professor of Visual Communication at California State University, Fullerton.
Send email to xtine@missconceptions.net.

Spring 2008

This spring xtine's essay, "Couchsurfing, Delocator and Fallen Fruit: Websites Respond to a Crisis of Democracy" is included in the Journal of Media and Culture's double issue, "Vote" and "Citizen". Collected in the "Vote" area of the issue, edited by Graham Mielke, this essay situates the Delocator project in the datasphere as a reaction to overt control by the corporate media. But more importantly, this peer-reviewed journal is my favorite.

May - June and October - November
The Audacity of Desperation is a public arts project curated and presented by Jessica Lawless and Sarah Ross. xtine's Do Something More Amazing will be on display as a poster campaign driving visitors to the website in this free give-away exhibit which opens at The Urbana- Champaign Independent Media Center,May 7th - June 15. If you're in the area the address is 202 S. Broadway Suite 100, Urbana, IL 61801. Opening Party: May 7 at 7pm. From the AoD blog, "The Audacity of Desperation is an art exhibition, political action, and on-going dialogue. This show confronts, expresses and unravels states of desperation. Artworks by activists, artists, enthusiasts, and very concerned people, are made in editions of 100 with the intention of free distribution to audiences. In this way, these artworks will be activated outside of the exhibition space and in domestic spaces, on bodies, clothes, bags, and in public spaces." The show will travel to Los Angeles in the fall, where it will be on exhibit at Sea and Space from October 23 - November 16.

May 1, 2008, Manchester, UK
xtine will be presenting her upcoming project, Your Neighbors' Biz at the social networking conference, Futuresonic.

xtine, (2008). Your Neighbors' Biz. Project presented at Futuresonic, an international conference on social networking. UK: Manchester.

xtine, (2008). Noisy Websites, Cultural Criticism, and ìThe Web 2.0î. Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association National Conference. California: San Francisco.

xtine, (2007). Websites respond to a crisis of democracy. Paper presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention. Illinois: Chicago.

xtine, (2007). Mail A Virus! Presentation at The Fourth International Conference on Teacher Education and Social Justice. Illinois: Chicago (UIC).

xtine, (2007). Couches, Coffee, and Jam: Using the Internet to Act Locally. Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association National Conference. Massachusetts: Boston.

xtine, (2007). Web 2.0: A response to a social crisis. Paper presented at The Fifth Annual Media In Transition Conference. MIT. Massachusetts: Cambridge.

March 2007: Paradise Obscura
Handmade, letterpress printed paper shopping bags are conceptual renderings of On The Road, by Jack Kerouac. A hybrid visual-literary public arts event took place at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, addressing themes of voyeurism and anti-consumerism, common to Kerouac's 1957 novel.

December 2006: DoSomethingMOREAmazing.com
DoSomethingMoreAmazing.com was launched in response to the US Airforce's website, www.dosomethingamazing.com. What does amazing mean to you? The Airforce website, by way of destructive imagery and aggressive keywords (such as "forces", "thunder", "bomb", "drop", "boom", and "command") suggests that to be amazing is to be forceful and violent. This site contains a set of links to protest, activist, and student organizations, as well as a link to the Do Something More Amazing blog. In December 2006, DoSomethingMoreAmazing.com was added to the Rhizome.org ArtBase.

Ongoing: Delocator.net
Delocator.net was initially launched in April, 2005. The mission of Delocator.net is to assist the public in finding and supporting independently owned businesses. In the summer of 2006 the project expanded to include independent bookstores and movie theaters.

August 2005: Mozart Effect Transplanted
Mozart Effect Transplanted was on display at Open as part of the SoundWalk 2005 event on August 20th. The project tests the premise of the Mozart Effect on four cacti.

May 2005: Mail A Virus
Created out of nostalgia for computer viruses now considered retro and incorporating email as the apt transmitter, Mail A Virus allows viewers to browse postcards which depict now dated viral memorabilia, like the pervasive I Love You and Melissa email viruses. Although the Mail A Virus site itself is benign, it does test the level of technological hypochondria in a computer-age society.

2003: Unporn Series
Under the influence of deconstructivist theory, Moira Gatens writes of the French Feminists, "one of the most important struggles is to engage in the subversion of phallocentric discourses and to foster a language that is able to express the specificity of the feminine." The Unporn Series is a photographic act of appropriation and revision that subverts the phallocentric discourse of pornography.

2001 and ongoing: Short Videos
This grouping of short videos create a psychological interference with the notion of a clean and succinct language; and necessarily involve experimental media and hybrid processes in language usage that is possible in video and/or time-based media. These have been screened at film festivals and inside art institutions.