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Jennifer Chan is an an artist who works with video and web-based media. Her artwork recently exhibited at Abandon Normal Devices Festival (UK), Interstate Projects (New York), Titanik (Finland), Transnumeriques (Brussels), Future Gallery, Transmediale (Berlin), GL/.TCH Festival (US, NL), and Images Festival (Toronto) She has curated for Canadian institutions such as InterAccess, Trinity Square Video, Vtape, and XPACE. Her research on the media arts and internet culture has been presented at Abandon Normal Devices Festival (UK), Open Video Conference (US), ILikeThisArt.net, Networked_Performance, and Whitechapel Gallery (UK). Jennifer was born in Ottawa and grew up in Hong Kong. She currently works between Toronto and Syracuse, NY.

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An Informal Survey of Swag: The Sociology of Hip Hop In the Micro-World of Emerging Net Art

by Jennifer Chan on September 14, 2012
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Cultural studies has established that suburban white kids love hip hop in a complex manner; heaps has been written on aspiration, colorblindedness, misogynism, emulation, and subordination. But just what makes hip hop so appealing to net artists? Instead of passing off any attempt to indulge in hip hop as a 1:1 relationship between appropriation and mockery, I’m interested in looking at how different artists incorporate hip hop in their artwork to talk about themselves.

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