PORT: Navigating Digital Culture Organized by a r t n e t w e b MIT List Visual Arts Center January 25 through March 29, 1997

PROJECT DESCRIPTION Plastic Mother is a live audio and video internet broadcast by Beyond the QE2. The theme deals with imagery and sounds generated by our synthetic society; colorful plastic renderings of animals and people; the idea of a maternal digital assistant with all the potential negative implications; earth is our mother turning plastic with new structures and waste.

BEYOND THE QE2 Beyond the QE2 is a group of multimedia artists with a history in electronic art exhibits: We started out producing large scale installation shows at the Cyclorama, in the south end of Boston through Massachusetts College of Art. May of 1994, "High Viscosity Thermal Breakdown": featured film and videos with a live performance by Emergency Broadcast Network and live music and video by Alienating Technology of which the members of Beyond the QE2 are derivative. May of 1995, "Deception Room": a labyrinth of installation rooms: Video and film installations Sculpture -some audio enhanced and some video enhanced Computer kiosks Photo Live performance by Alienating Technology. The Beyond the QE2 website showcases the internet specific artwork, among our other work, as multi-media artists. Remote broadcasts in internet equipped venues are our favored mode: with a sound and video projection system for a physical audience and a simultaneous transmission on the web.