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|Event display name=Melanie Clemmons and Everest Pipkin
|Date Start=2017-07-28
|Date End=2017-07-28
|Total days adjusted=1
|Event description=Near Water | Melanie Clemmons

Melanie Clemmons’s secret hobby is true crime. She’s specifically interested in missing persons cases and the online communities that investigate them. For her Homepage residency, she created navigable environments from real terrain data of infamous crime scenes and a series of digital tools that can be used to divine for clues within the scene.

Melanie Clemmons (http://www.melanieclemmons.com/) is an educator, live visualist, and new media artist. Her work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Echo Park Film Center, Transfer Gallery, Denver Digerati, the Museum of Human Achievement, and many DIY spaces/venues throughout the US. She currently teaches Digital Art at the University of Colorado-Boulder, where she also coordinates the Interactive Art, Writing, and Performance program’s Visiting Artist Series. Melanie facilitates the Studio Project, a teen intern program at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and performs live visuals as Vidkidz (http://www.vidkidz.info/) , with her collaborator Zak Loyd.
The 60,000 cursor archive | Katie Rose Pipkin

Everest Pipkin has collected 60k customized mouse cursors, with imagery ranging from sparkle text to Pokemon to penises to political statements. These 32-pixel wide cursors function as documents of both their time and their makers. Although some of these cursors are new, most are from the Geocities-era internet. With the adoption of Web 2.0 standards, animated cursors have ceased to be supported- so many in the collection are now fossils.

Everest Pipkin (http://everestpipkin.com/) is a drawing and language artist from the woods outside of Austin, Texas. They hold a BFA from University of Texas at Austin, are a MFA candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, and have shown nationally and internationally at The Design Museum of London, the Texas Biennial, XXI Triennale of Milan, The Victoria & Albert Museum, and others. They produce printed material as books, chapbooks, and zines, as well as digital work in software, bots, and games. They also make drawings by hand, on paper.

|Presented by=IRL,Welcome To My Homepage
|Funded by=Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department
|Associated Program=IRL,Welcome to my Homepage
|Event artist=Melanie Clemmons,Everest Pipkin
|Type of Event=Digital Art
|Event ticket price=$0
|Is public=Yes
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