05.16.2013

Vanishing Point at Bitforms Gallery

Vanishing Point

Annie Dorsen, Kyle McDonald, Boris Meister,   

RAND Corporation, Elaine Reichek, Sebastian Schmieg,   

Mungo Thomson, Clement Valla, and Siebren Versteeg

 

Curated by A.E. Benenson

  

bitforms gallery nyc 

May 30 – July 19, 2013

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 30. 6:00-8:30 PM

Summer Gallery Hours: Mon – Fri, 11 AM – 6 PM (beginning May 30)

Elaine Reichek. SETI, (detail view) 2004. Hand embroidery on linen. 40 x 57″ / 101.6 x 144.8 cm

Curatorial statement by A.E. Benenson:

At the birth of modern computing, a paradox: only after Alan Turing theorizes an infinitely large computer* do we begin to plausibly imagine how our world could be digitally remade as small as possible. That is, it’s only after Turing fixed our technological gaze outwards onto infinity that we began our relentless dwindling inwards, towards miniaturized circuits and virtualization. Taking this contradictory movement as both its content and form, the exhibition Vanishing Point presents views of a contemporary digital vastness that is both boundless and barely there.

 

By understanding computing as an ongoing experiment in the incommensurate, the artists in this exhibition draw the discipline of computing into various unlikely associations: outer-space, the afterlife, Abstract Expressionism, Greek Tragedy. And yet at the same time, there is a move to deconstruct the traditional aesthetic associations with the infinite (e.g. “the sublime”) in terms of a contemporary virtual sprawl that is often pathetically insignificant, banal and quotidian. These analytical impulses are tempered with modes of address that are more lyrical, less direct; formal experiments within the contradictions of a new vastness that is simultaneously too large and too small to be fully apprehended.

 

Here, “vanishing point” refers not only to the infinitely distant and small destination where everything rushes to converge, but also to a potential moment of disappearance – an event horizon where technology swallows something once and for all…what exactly – irrationality, expressivity, scarcity, suffering? Nothing in this exhibition claims to know with certainty. The objective is not to make predictions, but to press ourselves a little closer to the arc that bends towards the limit.

*the universal Turing machine, 1936

 

RAND Corporation. A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates 1955. Book, first edition.
10.8 x 7.8 x 3 in / 27.4 x 19.8 x 7.6 cm

Exhibited Works:  

Annie Dorsen, “Hello, Hi There“, 2011-2013

Kyle McDonald, “Only Everything Lasts Forever” 2009

Boris Meister, “Above the Cloud – Archaeology of Social Networks”, 2012

RAND Corporation, A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates, 1955

Elaine Reichek, “SETI”, 2004

Sebastian Schmieg, “Search by Image“, 2011-ongoing

Mungo Thomson, “Einstein #1″, 2008

Clement Valla, “Paintings from Wushipu”, 2009

Siebren Versteeg, “2×3″, 2013

 

 

Clement Valla. Mark Copies J.F. Kensett’s Lily Pond, Newport, Rhode Island, and Paints in the View from his Studio Window from “Paintings from Wushipu”, 2009. Oil on canvas. 37 x 25 in / 93.9 x 63.5 cm

For images and more information, please visit:http://www.bitforms.com

05.16.2013

Photos from the Show at Mulherin + Pollard

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04.26.2013

Iconclashes opens at Mulherin + Pollard on May 11

Info here: http://www.mulherinpollard.com/Clement_Valla_Erik_Berglin_Iconoclashes.html

04.26.2013

Iconoclashes at SCARF, the Scandanavian Art fair

http://www.scandinavianartfair.com/a/artists/2063

04.11.2013

#FUTUREMYTH

#FUTUREMYTH
April 18 – May 5, 2013

Curated by Christina Latina and Daniel Leyva

319 Scholes
319 Scholes Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206

319scholes.org

What’s the state of the modern myth? How do myths proliferate, what do we use to represent them, and what’s the cultural value of storytelling? #FUTUREMYTH presents digital artists engaged in contemporary myth-making who are using the gallery as a way to navigate, define, and discuss the current landscape of mythology and its relevance in our technologically dependent lives.

Participating artists include: Kari Altmann, Matthew Arkell, Iain Ball, Enrico Boccioletti, Manuel Bürger, Sterling Crispin, Claire L. Evans, Ryan Whittier Hale, Erin Henry, Emily Jones, Taylor Kuffner, Paul Laffoley, Kareem Lotfy, Jonas Lund + Sebastian Schmieg, Einar Öberg, Rafaël Rozendaal, Jasper Spicero, Tanner Family, and Clement Valla + Erik Berglin.

03.3.2013

Iconoclashes

Spent the weekend at Art Hack day @ 319 Scholes, a 2 day hackathon. Met and worked with Erik Berglin, and in the 2 days we came up with a new project: Iconoclashes.

 

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Here’s an install shot:

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02.9.2013

DVD Dead Drop Vol. 5 – The work

I couldn’t resist. Here’s some similar work to what Kyle McDonald and I contributed to DVD Dead Drop Vol. 5 compiled by Ole Fach & Kim Asendorf (http://fa-g.org/).

They are sets of texture maps from Nokia’s 3d maps found at here.com. These are really large images so I’ve included a zoom.

If you want to get the full-res images or see more, you’ll have to get out to Queens and Burn a DVD on the Dead Drop.

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02.7.2013

Junk Jet 6

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Junk Jet n°6 says: The global is but the local on world tour…
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n°6 °.° with local contributions by
0100101110101101.ORG, Adam Cruces, Agathe Andre, Aids-3d, Alberto Bustamante, Alejandro Crawford, Aline Otte, Andreas Angelidakis, Angela Genusa, Angelo Plessas, Aude Debout, Aureliano Segundo, Asli Serbest,Blinking Girls, Caspar Stracke, Clement Valla,Cornelia und Holger Lund, Dragan Espenschied, Emilio Gomariz, ET AL., ETC., Francesca Gavin, Golgotha, Hugo Scibetta, Jennifer Chan, JODI, Jon Rafman, Julien Lacroix, Kim Asendorf, Laimonas Zakas, Louis Doulas,m-a-u-s-e-r, Metahaven, Neil McGuire, Mona Mahall,Nicholas O’Brien, Nilgün Serbest, Olia Lialina,Patrick Cruz, Superpool, Tomas Klassnik
999 copies
144 pages
14.8 x 10.5 x 0.8 cm
99 gr
12.12.2012
with a sticker and a digital mixtape “Terrorismo Mexicano”
n°6

02.6.2013

Contributed some new work to DVD DEAD DROP VOL. 5

bestof
MUSEUM OF MOVING IMAGE (NEW YORK) February 8th to March 14th 2013

BEST OF
Fach & Asendorf Gallery

Compiled by Ole Fach & Kim Asendorf (http://fa-g.org/)

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DVD DEAD DROP by Aram Bartholl

http://datenform.de/dvd-dead-drop-eng.html

DVD DEAD DROP at the Museum of the Moving Image

http://www.movingimage.us/exhibitions/2012/08/16/detail/dvd-dead-drop/

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Fach & Asendorf Gallery debuted online in 2011 with these words:

The Internet, it is everywhere. It is here, it is there and it is where you actually are. It is so huge that nobody ever could print it. It is so deep that no one ever would dive to its end. There is peace and war in it, love and hate and all between. Once you have traveled through it, you will never forget, and you will come back, asap.

Since then, Fach & Asendorf Gallery has served 24 online exhibitions of digital and net art to more than 28,000 unique visitors. To celebrate the beginning of their third season, Fach & Asendorf Gallery presents BEST OF, an enormous collection of unreleased and exclusive work by 83 artists from around the world spanning a broad range of formats including applications, videos, and animated GIFs. BEST OF is a whole week of Internet on DVD.

Participating artists:
A Bill Miller, Absis Minas, Alan Butler, Alexander Peverett, Alfredo Salazar-Caro, Andrew Benson, Andrew Rosinski, Aoki and Peverett, Art 404, Bea Fremderman, Brandon Blommaert, Carlos Saez, Charles Chalas, Chris Collins, Christian Petersen, Claudia Mate, Clement Valla and Kyle McDonald, Constant Dullaart, curatingyoutube.net, Daniel Leyva, Daniel Rehn, David Kraftsow, Deanna Havas, Dominik Podsiadly, Emilie Gervais, Emilio Gomariz, Fabien Mousse, Ferestec, Florian Kuhlmann, Francoise Gamma, Fritz Laszlo Weber, Georges Jacotey, Goto80, Grace McEvoy, Hugo Scibetta, Jacob Engblom, Jan Robert Leegte, Jasper Elings, Jerome Saint-Clair, JK Keller, Johannes P Osterhoff, Jon Satrom, Jonas Lund, Jonathan Pirnay and Jörn Röder, jonCates, Jordan Tate, Jörg Piringer, Julien A Lacroix, Lorna Mills, Małgosia Woźnica, Manuel Fernández, Mark Beasley, Mark Durkan, Martin Böttger, Matthew Williamson, Max Capacity, Michael Manning, Mitch Trale, Miyö Van Stenis, Nicholas O’Brien, Nick Briz, Nicolas Boillot, Nicolas Sassoon, Niko Princen, Paul Flannery, Philipp Teister, Rajeev Basu, Raphaël Bastide, Rick Silva, Rollin Leonard, Sara Ludy, Sarah Samy, Sarah Weis, Sebastian Schmieg and Silvio Lorusso, Stefan Riebel, Sterling Crispin, Ted Davis, Theodore Darst, Thomas Cheneseau, Travis Hallenbeck, Yoshi Sodeoka.

02.6.2013

Had some work in this great show at 319 Scholes

Collect the WWWorld: The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age
Oct 18 2012- Nov 04 2012
Opening Hours: 7:00PM – 10:00PM
Curated by Domenico Quaranta

Collect the WWWorld: The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age is an attempt to show how art responds to the information society. The last decade has witnessed an incredible growth in the production and distribution of images and cultural contents. The availability of inexpensive production tools has seen an exponential rise in amateur creativity, while the Internet provides a new distribution platform for this kind of production, which previously remained private. The show investigates the impact of this process on art practices and on the role of the artist, who more and more evolves into a filter, a collector, an archivist, a post-producer of already existent cultural material.

Furthermore, Collect the WWWorld sets out to demonstrate how the Internet generation is implementing and developing a practice started in the Sixties by Conceptual Art, and further developed in subsequent decades in the forms of Appropriation Art and postproduction: the practice of exploring, collecting, archiving, manipulating and reusing huge amounts of cultural material produced by popular culture and advertising.

Collect the WWWorld is a show first produced by the Link Center for the Arts of the Information Age and already presented, in different versions, at Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia (Italy) in September 2011 and at the House of Electronic Arts Basel (Switzerland) in March 2012. The presentation at 319 Scholes will feature a number of new artists and works in a brand-new arrangement. The show relies on an ongoing research project that can be followed online at http://collectheworld.linkartcenter.eu.

The show will also include a reading area with the catalogue of the show, other books by Link Editions, artist books, texts, and catalogues that provided inspiration for the show. The exhibition will serve as the launch for Ryan Trecartin’s Ryan’s Web 1.0, a new e-book that features his W Magazine set as well as documentation of the research that went into the piece, which will be free for download in PDF format.

Participating artists include: Alterazioni Video, Kari Altmann, Gazira Babeli, Kevin Bewersdorf, Aleksandra Domanovic, Constant Dullaart, Elisa Giardina Papa, Travis Hallenbeck, Jason Huff, JODI, Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied, Eva and Franco Mattes, Oliver Laric, Jon Rafman, Ryder Ripps, Evan Roth, Ryan Trecartin, Brad Troemel, Penelope Umbrico, and Clement Valla.

Domenico Quaranta (1978, Brescia, Italy) is an art critic and curator. He is a regular contributor to Flash Art and Artpulse. He is the editor (with M. Bittanti) of the book GameScenes: Art in the Age of Videogames (2006) and the author of Media, New Media, Postmedia (2010) and In Your Computer (2011). He has curated various exhibitions, including Holy Fire: Art of the Digital Age (Bruxelles 2008, with Y. Bernard), Playlist (Gijon 2009 and Bruxelles 2010) and Collect the WWWorld (Brescia 2011 and Basel 2012). He is a co-founder of the Link Center for the Arts of the Information Age.

02.6.2013

My Work is in Time Magazine!

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and online too: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/10/24/street-view-and-beyond-googles-influence-on-photography/#1

02.5.2013

Article in El Pais : Postales desde Google Earth

There’s a nice article on my Postcards from Google Earth project : http://blogs.elpais.com/arte-en-la-edad-silicio/2012/11/postales-desde-google-earth.html

from twitter: