For Immediate Release - March 22, 2006 - Screening Circle Screening Circle is a new collaborative media artwork by Andy Deck. The piece adapts the cultural tradition of the quilting circle and the participative round table into an online format for producing motion graphics. Visitors to the site can enter a drawing area to compose loops of graphics. Each person affects and edits each other's screens. The pieces, or segments, can be made by one person or by several people and the arrangement of the segments can be haphazard or precise. In the screening areas, the resulting motion graphics and retrospective footage will be on view instantaneously and archived for posterity.

Andy Deck (American, b.1968) is an artist specializing in Internet-related media. His work addresses the politics and aesthetics of collaborative media, software, and freedom of expression. For more about his work visit Artcontext.net.

Screening Circle was co-commissioned by the Whitney Artport and the Tate Online.