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Interview with Jeremy Hight
San Diego, Dec. 2011 - When the internet emerged as a creative forum, scholars, artists and practitioners were hopeful that it would become an overwhelming artistic utopia. Although the internet has established itself in everyday life, internet art has not become a central force in art discourse. Computers contribute greatly to contemporary art creation but internet art is still somewhat marginal. Yet the internet offers extraordinary platforms for discourse, discussion and innovation outside academia, where artists and thinkers can produce and share immaterial works that can be viewed as art, and at the same time can be free of dealers and the agendas of state institutions and corporations.

Scholar, artist and educator Jeremy Hight is a leading thinker in on-line art and the internet’s intellectual potential. He currently teaches at Cal Arts and in the ICAM and VIS ARTS departments at U.C. San Diego, as well as serving as New Media curator and Contributing editor for MIT Press's Leonardo Electronic Almanac. He is an expert on locative media, which challenges conventional forms of narrative and augmented reality.

Now, Hight is curating a multi-part exhibition of key creative artists in Locative Media, New Media and Mapping. The show raises vital questions of how we interpret time, place, space and history. Here, Jeremy and I discuss the current state of new media, the internet’s potential and his scholarly and artistic work.