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When I was 5, my mother
said to me, "You don't have to say the Pledge. It isn't meant for you."
That was in 1959 on my first day of school. She added if the teacher
tried to make me say it, then have her talk to my mother. I
didn't know what the pledge was, or why it wasn't meant
for me, but I understood that my mother, who usually insisted on good
behavior, was clearly giving me permission to be a non-conformist. I didn't
know it at the time, but my mother was implying
that since we are Black, liberty and justice was not
intended for us. "With Liberty and Justice for
All" plays with the aesthetics of confusion in 3 juxtaposed browser windows.
The largest window displays vignettes that provide context for images in
2 smaller windows. One of which displays the images from my childhood. The
other displays my memory of the American Dream in the 1960s.
Viewers will click links to move through the website, and draw their own conclusion:
Was the pledge meant for this little black girl growing up
in the US in the 1960s or
not?
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| Carmin is a software engineer and digital artist focused
on Internet Art. She spent 19 years in High Tech Corporate America.
In 1995 she began studying digital art at Mass College of Art, and
was the Resident Artist for the Do While Studio, in Boston in 1996.
During her residency she learned to appreciate the artist's
responsibility to the community. In 1997 she started her company,
Pixelyze, which specializes in web development and digital art.
During the Boston Cyberarts Festival '99 she had a number of
interviews and speaking engagements, and exhibited in group shows at
the Attleboro Museum, The Bromfield Gallery, the DeCordova Museum,
and the Computer Museum. She has also exhibited at MIT's List Visual
Arts Center, and the Harriet Tubman House Gallery in Boston. She
regularly collaborates with other Internet artists and performs in
online venues, including New York city's fakeshop. Her work is
currently featured in several online galleries, including CAGE, NL,
http://cage.iscool.net, in the US e-zine, Moondance, and in the SWARM
collaboration for Austria's ARS Electronica Infowar. Her web art, With
Liberty and Justice for All, was commissioned by and published
in the British e-zine frAme in 1998. |
