• December 4, 2007 - March 2, 2008: NetSpace: Journey into Net Art, Bodies in cyberspace,
Maxxi Museum, Rome, Italy.
* November 27, 2007: “Digital Landscape,” curator Irit Millo, Tel Aviv University Gallery, Israel
• November 5, 7:30 - 9:00pm: "And I Was Both Tongues," lecture at The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium, Berkeley Center for New Media, the lecture is free and open to the public.
• November 3, 4 PM: Artist talk at bitforms gallery, New York. Open to the public.
• October 30 – February 24, 2008: "Object of Desire," Jewish Museum, New York.
• October 18 – November 17, 2007: "Warm Fields," bitforms gallery, New York
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• July 1, 2007: "And I Was Both Tongues," Nelly Aman gallery, Tel Aviv (forthcoming)
• June 2007: 'Object of Desire" featured on Fringe Exhibitions website, Los Angeles.
• April 20, 2007, 7PM: Launch event for Object of Desire, Exit Art, 7PM. Artist talk with Ayah Bdier + panel
discussion moderated by curator Galit Eilat, with artist Hakan Topal and curator Michael Connor.
• April 18, 2007: On Object of Desire — "Bringing together the current political scenario and her exploration
of a futuristic imaginary, Kanarek creates a powerful intellectually and emotionally engaging piece, which will
remain as one of the most significant metaphors of the present human condition created by
contemporary artists." — World(s) of Awe, Miguel Amado, Rhizome News.
* March 18, 2007: “(st)ARTREK Next Generation,” BOMARZO Palazzo Orsini, VITERBO Kyo Art Gallery,
Italy
• February 7, 2007: "When Ali Baba Met Yahoos in China," New Media Lecture Series, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York.
• January – March, 2007: “Thread,” curator Michele Thursz, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania• Podcast interview with Phillip Blackburn on "Bit by Bit, Cell by Cell," Alive and Composing series, Innova recordings
• November 22, 2006: Lovelab, un scénario élastique, Daphné Le Sergent
October 23 – November 13, 2006: "Lovelab," curated by Leatitia Sellam, Galerie RX, Paris
October 5, 2006, 6:30 PM: "Bit by Bit, Cell by Cell," CD release party at Eyebeam. Join us to celebrate the release of Bit by Bit, Cell by Cell (Innova), the latest World of Awe project. The music CD is a collaboration between media artist Yael Kanarek, composer Yoav Gal and dancefilmmaker Evann Siebens.
During the party the World of Awe band (Yoav Gal with sopranos Heather Green and Sarah Rivkin) will play songs from the CD and Evann Siebens will perform choreographed elementrom her dancefilm Portal.
June 16, 2006: "Bit by Bit, Cell by Cell," performance and talk at Sugia, Jerusalem, Israel
June 07, 2006: "Loops in World of Awe," Lecture, Kalisher, Tel Aviv, Israel
May 23, 2006: "Bit by Bit, Cell by Cell," is available in stores and online.
April 2006: "Bit by Bit, Cell by Cell" soprano and Atari 800XL. Music CD release by Innova music label. Music by Yoav Gal with dancefilm by Evann Siebens.
September 24, 2005: Group show with bitforms Seoul.
September 7, 2005: "On the Twenty-Somethingth Mile," a World of Awe live performance with Nao Bustamante and Yoav Gal, presented by the Drawing Center at the River to River festival.
June 29, 2005: Kicking off the launch of Upgrade! Scotland at DCA in Dundee.
April 19, 2005, 6:30 PM: Survival Skills Workshop panelist at Artists Space, New York.
April 1, 2005: Yael Kanarek is awarded the Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship to create "Chapter 3: Object of Desire."
April 1-5, 2005: Visiting artist at the University of Oklahoma.
March 15, 2005: Talk at Pace University, Manhattan.
January 25: Talk at the Upgrade! Boston, 7:30 PM at Art Interactive.
December 28 - January 28: Netizens II, Sala 1, Rome, Italy
November 17-21: CYNETart_04areale at Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden, Germany
November 17-24: VideoZone2 biennial, net art program, Tel Aviv, Israel
November 15: One person show at Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
July 27 – August, 2004: One person exhibition at K-99, Cologne, Germany.
June 24 – July 31, 2004: "Touch and Temperature," summer group show curated by Michael Rees at bitforms gallery.
• June 8, 2004: Three profiles of World of Awe written by student of Critical Writing in the School of Jounalism at NYU with professor Jill Dearman: Vanessa Schneider, Dain Lee, Amanda Merrill.
May 19 – 23, 2004: The video "Schedule_Task" is presented at Peam Electronic Arts Festival, Pescara, Italy.
• May 15, 2004: “Integrating the Digital Consciousness,” Debra Colton Gallery, Houston, TX.
April 27, 2004: "Film Festival at the Speed of Flash," Andrew Petty, Korean Herald.
May 1 – September 22, 2004: "Portal" is inlcuded in the 5th Seoul Net & Film Festival.
March 21, 2004: Sunday New York Times, Arts & Leisure, 2004, "A Video Game With Awe As Its Quest," by Elizabeth Bard. (PDF of print version 2.7MB) .
March 5 – April 10, 2004: One person exhibition at bitforms, New York.
December 2003: "A Talk with an Artist," lecture at the Digital Art Lab, Israel.
November 25 – December 10, 2003: One person exhibition at Sala 1, Rome.
June 12. 2003: netizens_webprize 2003, the international
net art competition
1st PRIZE WINNER is YAEL KANAREK.
May 17- June 22, 2003: "Lab3D," Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK.
April 11- May 19, 2003: Decade, SCHROEDER ROMERO Gallery, Williamsburg, NY
April 25 - May 11: Boston CyberArts Festival
March 9-12, 2003: Web3D Art, SIGGRAPH, St. Malo, France.
Febbraio - Marzo 2003: Art-ware, Utopie della net art, Valentina Tanni, Flash Art Italia n° 238.
January 24–March 24, 2003: "Nown," curated by Michele Thursz, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA.
January 15, 2003: Portal, a net.dance commissioned by Turbulence.org is launched. The work is a collabortation with dance filmmaker Evann Siebens, composer Yoav Gal and flash programmer Meeyoung Kim.
November 28, 2002: "World of Awe, il viaggio immaginario di Yael Kanarek," Exibart, Italy.
November 26, 2002: The "Traveler's Journal, Chapters 1+2" on view in the <Alt>DigitalMedia exhibition at the American Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, New York.
October 16 - December 1, 2002: Yael Kanarek in collaboration with Bnode, architecture studio, premiere the mRB project as part of the Beta Launch: Artists in Residence '02 at Eyebeam. August 17 - November 28, 2002: Chapter 2 is on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
July 10, 2002: Daniel Vargas wrote after visiting Chapter 2.
July 4, 2002: Yael Kanarek lectures at the Digital Art Lab in Holon, Israel.
June 10, 2002: Commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, "The Traveler's Journal, Chapter 2" is launched on E.SPACE.
June 8, 2002: A reading fromChapter 2 of the Traveler's Journal at the 6BC Botanical Garden in lower Manhattan as part of the NYFA 2001 fellowship.
June 7, 2002: World of Awe reviewed in Le Monde Interactif: World of Awe : une carte du Tendre numérique, Laetitia Sellam.
March 7 - May 26, 2002: World of Awe (Yael Kanarek) is included in the 71st Whitney Biennial.
May 2, 02: USA Today Hot sites of the day: "Sit back, swallow the pulsating pill, and drift into the World of Awe. A strange multimedia art project, Awe weaves e-mail, PC desktops and other computer trappings into a classic and occasionally humorous tale of things lost and found."
March 25 - April 18, 2002: Meta-Forms, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY.
March 11 2002: "Exhibition Celebrates Contemporary Vision," Goergette Gouveia, The Journal News.
March 4, 2002: "If
You Can't Join 'Em, You Can Always Tweak 'Em,"
by Matthew Mirapaul, Arts Online, New York Times.
February 25, 02 7PM:Yael Kanarek & Yoav
Gal will present the music
developed for World of Awe through the Harvestwork
artist-in-residence program. The presentation will include live performance
by soprano Sarah Rivkin. Harvestworks, 596 Broadway, Suite 602
New York, NY Tel: 212.431.1130. Admission free.
December 14 01 9PM: "My Last Birthday_Party," curated by Mouchette, De Balie, Amsterdam.
November 20 01, 8 PM: Debut performance of 4 songs from Music for World of Awe composed by Yoav Gal and sung by soprano Sarah Rivkin (as part of Harvestworks residency):
October 24-28: Viper Festival, Switzerland. Presentation on Saturday, Oct 27 at 3 PM.
Sept 14-Oct 15: Medi@terra
2001,
International Art and Technology Festival,
"De-Globalizing / Re-Globalizing," Lavrion-Athens >> Sofia-Plovdiv
>> Maribor >> Frankfurt
August 16-18: American Film Institue, 2001 California Digital Arts Workshop and Summit, "The Arts and Streaming Media."
July 31: Hello cursor, Korean net.art show curated by Kyeong Il Park.
July 31: Margarets Penney's pick for Freshfoot.
July 26: Review in Spanish press, "Viaje con net.art airlines," Roberta Bosco and Stefano Caldana, Ciberp@is Mensual, El Pais.
July 1: A local version of The Journal 1.0 is archived in the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
July 1: ArtByte.com, First Person.
June 26: Yael Kanarek receives the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award in Computer Arts category.
June 20: Press release issued for: Love Letters in Your E-Mailbox.
June 0728: WOA > Silicon Canyon, solo exhibition, Moving Image Gallery, NYC.
May 15: News & Features, Diana Elkins, www.now.com.
May 10: Digital Gallery feature, Catherine Hart, www.now.com.
May 8: Interview for Captain Internet, Uri Pasovsky, Haaretz, Israel.
May 330: net.ephemera, Moving Image Gallery, NY.
April 28: Textures, Digital ArtLab, Israel.
April 25June 21: "Auf der suche nach der verlorenen kunst," Kleine-Humboldt gallery of Humboldt University, Berlin.
March 01: WOA review by Valerie Lamontagne.
February 01: The Drunken Boat, Issue 2: Window #1.
January 6-27 01: WOA participating in the group show "Technically Engaged" at A.I.R gallery in SOHO, NY.
January 01: World of Awe makes the shortlist in the trAce/alt-X new media writing competition.
January 01: World of Awe is included in the new media competition of the 14th Stuttgart Filmwinter, Germany.
November 00: Yael Kanarek in collaboration with Yoav Gal, composer, recieve the Harvestworks residency to further develop the sonicscape of World of Awe.
December 14-20 00: World of Awe is participating in the Interferences Biennal in Belfort, France.
December 2January 13/00: "Dystopia and Identity in the Age of Global Communications," curated by Cristine Wang. TimeOut review: "...Yael Kanarek's stunning digital images of virtual environments..."
November 00: World of Awe is now represented by the Moving Image Gallery.
November 16 00: World of Awe performance at Rhizome's openMouse.
November 00: Download the World of Awe screen saver for PC from "Refresh, the art of the screen saver" on artmuseum.net.
September 00: "am hort" organized by the Kuenstlerbund in Berlin, curated by Mario Hergueta.
August 00: FILE, The International Electronic Language Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
July 25 00: WOA reviewed on French site Praktica.
July 21 00: Yael Kanarek is selected as one of four recipients for The Alternative Museum Digital Commissions 2000. The commission is a six month cyber-residency + honorarium to develop WOA Roam, a 3D roaming environment of the Sunset/Sunrise. The project will be hosted and archived on The Alternative Museum website.
July 19 00: World of Awe is Shockwave.com site of the day.
July 10-12 00: WOA has been selected by Mark Amerika for inclusion in the Ink.Ubation Salon at the trAce Incubation Conference, at The Nottingham Trent University, England.
July 11 00: press release issued. WOA 1.0 is officially Launched.
July 4 00: New Coder of the week.

Created by media artist Yael Kanarek, World of Awe is a hypertextual, mulitple media project about a traveler who searches for a lost treasure in a parallel world called Sunset/Sunrise. Click the capsule.
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