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TELECULTURE at PACE Digital Gallery |
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Thursday, 08 November 2007 |
TELECULTURE
November 13 - December 14, 2007
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Video based artwork by Chris Borkowski, Bethany Fancher, Gerald Förster, Taras Hrabowsky, Jennifer Jacobs, Eric Payson, Second Front, Mark Tribe, and [dNASAb]
Curated by Lee Wells
Artists Talk - Tuesday November 13, 3-5pm
Opening Reception - Tuesday November 13, 5-7pm
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“Nothing – including ourselves – can be defined intrinsically; we are all in some sense extrinsic and relational achievements, conflations of body, culture, environment, technology. Moreover, the predominance of televisual and imaging technologies in contemporary technoculture has meant that our visual tools become inseparable from what we might discern as our own perceptual and bodily boundaries as ‘access’ to the world.”
Ingrid Richardson, Telebodies & Televisions: Corporeality and Agency in Technoculture, 2003
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TELECULTURE is a survey that brings together a diverse group of new media artists, whose work - ranging from photography to online virtual reality - embodies, a cross section of thought that investigates perceptions of identity in the early 21st century. Pace Digital Gallery offers a unique and challenging public environment, where as, through the sheer verticality of the space, the selected artworks combine to visually communicate a sense of claustrophobic post-millennial anxiety mixed with an un-definable euphoria, liberation, and freedom.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW EXHIBITION
Artists Talk - Tuesday November 13, 3-5pm
Artists will be present to discuss their work, in addition members of the Second Front collective will be participating remote via Second Life. Discussion will be streamed live via the internet. Please check the gallery website closer to the date for more information.
TELECULTURE will also be included as a featured video project at the Zones Contemporary Art Fair
to be held during Art Basel Miami Beach
from Thursday, December 6 to Monday, December 10, 2007, from 10am to 7pm. Edge Zones is a Miami based nonprofit 501c3 gallery, located in World Arts Building, 2214 N. Miami Ave., Miami Fl, 33127, in the heart of the Wynwood Arts District.
Please join us for a brunch reception and artist talk, Friday December 7, 11am. Artists present along with curator Lee Wells Pace Digital Gallery director Jillian Mcdonald will discuss the exhibition along with their thoughts on video and new media art today. For more information goto: http://www.edgezones.org.
Location
Located at 163 William Street,
a few blocks from City Hall, The Brooklyn Bridge, and Wall Street, Pace’s Digital Gallery is part of a vital downtown NYC art scene that includes historic architecture and national museums.
PACE DIGITAL GALLERY
PACE University
163 William Street, New York, NY
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This exhibition is generously supported by
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EXHIBITION CATALOG
Chris Borkowski
www.chrisborkowski.com
Codex, 2007
HD & SD video/ Jitter/ mac mini/ 24” Flat Screen
“Codex is a clearing house of video clips, audio sound bytes and
textual pieces created but never finished since I moved to NYC in 2003.
Through the use of a semi-random algorithm the narrative body flows
through sorted sets and grouping of ideas, images and sounds that deal
with fictional and non-fictional mini-narratives. The mini-narratives
range from subjects concerning geography, technology, capitalism,
socialism, political history, spiritualism, the occult, multiplicity,
and direct observations of urban life on both broad and micro levels.
“It’s a movie that is never complete, never ending and never the same
twice. It’s about me, you and everything around us past present and
future. Call it artful dodging by computational power, call it
laziness, call it a hopeless but beautiful mess because who has time to
sort out interrelated ideas, who has time for anything longer than 30
seconds? I don’t, but the codex or rather algorithm does and can neatly
sort it all out for us.”
Chris Borkowski is a media maker
from Buffalo, NY who is now living and working in New York City. He has
worked professionally as video editor, network administrator, media
arts center Technical Director, and University instructor in digital
arts. He has shown work internationally at various galleries and media
festivals and has also performed a number of real-time audio and video
pieces. He likes sunsets and long walks in the park, the shape of
pixels, social climbers, hackers, misfits and charlatans. His favorite
colors are RGB and he finds name dropping and writing his own bio the
biggest turn off.
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Bethany Fancher
www.bethanyjean.com
Construction and Deconstruction of the 43rd President, 2006
SD Video
Fancher questions her place and responsibility in relationship to
America through her performance-based video installation, Construction
and Deconstruction of the 43rd President. Her examination tool is
Wonder Bread - the prototypical American industrially produced food
product, as a symbolic gesture of her disgust at how we are marketed
information devoid of any real substance.
Bethany Fancher
currently lives and works in Queens, New York. Connection to the animal
world combined with alienation from humankind in general with all its
oppression, repression, and depression runs thematically through her
work in video, performance, sculpture, photography, and painting. She
attended the I-Park residency in East Haddam, Connecticut in 2001, the
Jentel residency in Banner, Wyoming in 2004, the McColl Center for
Visual Arts residency in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2005 and exhibits
her work nationally and internationally.
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Gerald Förster
www.geraldforster.com
Toddesschrei (Yvette), 2007
HD Video
Toddesschrei, Förster’s latest video project, is a dark glimpse into
the primal horror of modern existence. It is an expression of the inner
anguish, fear, terror and grief that so many human beings experience.
Resulting from spiritual isolation, physical obsolescence and
socio-political impotence. The world is ironically bent on the denial
of suffering, the denial of death and the obsessive veneration of
power, wealth, youth and physical beauty.
Gerald Förster,
winner of the “Fuji Press International Professional photographer Award
2006” was born in Germany in 1964. He graduated from his academic
studies of photography in 1985 and has since worked professionally in
Europe and the United States. He has contributed images to various
publications throughout the world including Vogue, Premier, Esquire,
and The New York Times Magazine among many others. Förster makes his
home in New York City.
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Taras Hrabowsky
www.tarashrabowsky.com
Amalgamide Tide, 2006
HD Video
Hrabowski’s projection is a conceptual blend of Niagara Falls, Tsunami
waves, cloud systems, and tornadoes - consisting of thousands of
digitally animated people. Amalgamide Tide questions the relationship
between group consciousness and uncontrollable effects and consequences
in nature. “We manufacture our own catastrophes for our euphoric
entertainment.”
Hrabowski, born in 1981 in Middletown, New
York, received his BFA from Pratt Institute in 2002. His work explores
a combination of mediums, including painting, installation, and
projection environments that are displayed both publicly and privately.
During the summer of 2007 Hrabowski showed Amalgamide Tide in 14
cities, projecting video in public from a specially modified van. He
exhibited his work at Sensei Gallery and Artist Network in New York
City and MCV/NYC in Brooklyn. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn,
New York.
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Jennifer Jacobs
www.jenniferj.net
Sister City, 2007
4 channel digital animation
Sister City defines an individual’s identity and internal evolution
using a pair of narratives as a reference point. The narratives are set
in two different worlds located in opposing universes. Both worlds
contain two cities and a pair of sisters. These separate worlds are
different representations of the same mind, parallel to the conscious
and unconscious realms of the human brain. The cities symbolize two
divergent personas within this mind and the sisters serve as vectors of
interaction between them. This structure reveals a continuous process
of mental division and conflict, representative of the psychological
evolution that occurs throughout a lifetime.
Jennifer Jacobs is an emerging artist from Corvallis, Oregon and a
recent graduate of the University of Oregon. Her work addresses the
personal metamorphosis that results from our identification and daily
interaction with the mechanical. Her pieces range from live productions
to animation with interactive elements. She currently works and resides
in New York City.
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Eric Payson
www.ericpayson.com
Ghostplay, 2007
Photo Duraclear installation
In Payson’s electrifying new work Ghostplay, college football’s raw
beauty rises to the surface in photographs taken directly from the
television screen; images morph into each other and expressions are
magnified as they are frozen in time. Ghostplay examines the media that
transmits it all, as the broadcasters and corporate sponsors appear as
much a part of the game as the athletes and coaches. Interspersed with
intrusive news bulletins, overeager cheerleaders, anxious spectators,
and seemingly malicious data on the athletes’ injuries, college
football appears to be a forum for adolescent violence and pervasive
adult greed. In these images, the game dissolves as the ghost in the
machine of the American media is captured by Payson’s camera. Ghostplay
reveals the suspicion and intrigue lurking between the stadium seats,
played out in the television control rooms, and hovering in the lower
levels of our consciousness.
Eric Payson is a photographer
and performance artist. Solo exhibitions of his photographs have been
mounted at Galerie Bodo Niemann, Berlin and Rene Fotouhi, East Hampton,
New York. Payson lives and works in New York and Tucson, Arizona.
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Second Front
www.slfront.blogspot.com
The Last Supper, 2007
Online VR performace and video
Second Front creates theatres of the absurd that challenge notions of
virtual embodiment, online performance and the formation of virtual
narrative. Taking their influences from numerous sources, including
Dada, Fluxus, Futurist Syntesi, the Situationist International and
contemporary performance artists like Laurie Anderson and Guillermo
Gomez-Pena.
Second Front is the pioneering performance art
group in the online avatar-based VR world, Second Life. Founded in
2006, Second Front quickly grew to its current 8 member troupe that
includes Jeremy Owen Turner (Vancouver), Doug Jarvis (Victoria), Tanya
Skuce (Vancouver), Gazira Babeli (Italy), Penny Leong Browne
(Vancouver), Patrick Lichty (Chicago), Liz Solo (St. Johns) and Scott
Kildall (San Francisco). Second Front has performed extensively,
including Vancouver, Chicago, New York, and has been featured in
publications including SLate, Eikon, Realtime Arts (Australia), The
Avastar (published by Axel-Springer, Germany) and most recently in
Exibart a(Italy).
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Mark Tribe
www.nothing.org
The Port Huron Project, 2007
Digital Video
The Port Huron Project is a series of reenactments of protest speeches
from the 1960s and ‘70s. Each event takes place at the site of the
original speech, and is delivered by an actor to an audience of invited
guests and passers-by. Videos of these performances are presented in
various venues and distributed online (on YouTube, Blip.tv, and
MySpace) and on DVD as open-source media (so others can view them,
share them, or use them as found footage in other projects). The videos
included in this exhibition document reenactments, staged in 2006 and
2007, of speeches originally given by Coretta Scott King (Central Park,
1968), author/activist Howard Zinn (Boston Common, 1971) and SDS
President Paul Potter (National Mall, 1965).
Mark Tribe is
an artist and curator whose interests include art, technology, and
politics. His art work has been exhibited at the ZKM Center for Art and
Media in Karlsruhe, the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, and Gigantic
Art Space in New York City. He has organized curatorial projects for
the New Museum of Contemporary Art, MASS MoCA, and inSite_05. In 1996,
he founded Rhizome.org, an online resource for new media artists. He
teaches at Brown University, and is the co-author, with Reena Jana, of
New Media Art (Taschen, 2006). He splits his time between Providence
and New York City.
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[dNASAb]
www.tc43.com
data ECOsystems .HybridEnertainmentMatrix, 2007
multi channel iPod video sculpture
[dNASAb]’s data ECOsystems explore the possible aesthetics of wireless
data and critique the fetishization of technology through photography,
drawing, painting, and assemblage sculpture. Informed by the
integration of art installation, sound, and technology, [dNASAb]’s work
is richly intricate and visually stunning, each piece suggesting a
“visual network” formed from explosions of mass communication graffiti.
[dNASAb]
received a BFA in Sculpture and in Mixed Media from Florida State
University in 1994. He was selected by Cindy Sherman, Jack Pierson, and
Adam Fuss for Unframed First Look 2004, a juried salon for emerging
artists at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. In March 2005, the
artist was a winner in The Los Angeles Center For Digital Art’s
international competition for photography and digital artists. He has
exhibited and has collaborated extensively in new media art
installations, interactive multimedia projects, and art performances in
New York and internationally since 1997. The artist lives and works in
Brooklyn, New York.
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About the curator
Lee Wells is an artist, exhibition organizer and consultant currently
living and working New York. Curating since 1996, his projects have
recently been included in the 2nd Moscow Biennale, Chelsea Art Museum
and Art Basel Miami Beach 2006. He is a co-founder of [PAM] the
Perpetual Art Machine (www.perpetualartmachine.com) an online community
video art portal and traveling interactive installation founded in
January 2006.
As an artist his work, which addresses
systems of power and control, has been presented in a number of solo
and group exhibitions including the 51 st La Biennale Di Venezia,
Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinatti, the Museo d’arte Moderna e
Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART) and the PS1 Contemporary Art
Center in Long Island City. His projects and exhibitions have been
written about by various national and international art and news
publications to include: The New York Times, Art Newspaper, The
Washington Post, Art in America, and Art Net.
Wells most
recently was invited to curate an international program for “In
Transition Russia 2008” a project in collaboration with the National
Centres of Contemporary Art (NCCA), Yekaterinburg and Moscow, The
Academy of Contemporary Art, The Ural State Gorky University (USU),
Yekaterinburg and the Independent Museum of Contemporary Art (IMCA) in
Limassol, Cyprus.
www.leewells.org
www.ifac-arts.org
www.perpetualartmachine.com
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About Pace Digital Gallery
Pace University’s Digital Gallery is the combined initiative between
Pace’s Center for Advanced Media (CAM) and Digital Arts. It was
inaugurated in Spring 2003 as a collaboration between the School of
Computer Science and Information Systems and the Fine Arts Department.
Directors: Francis T. Marchese, Jillian Mcdonald
Mission
The goal of Pace’s Digital Gallery’s is to foster the creation and
understanding of digital art for the benefit of Pace University, the
surrounding community, and the general public. It furthers Pace
University’s commitment to educational excellence, diversity, and civic
involvement by exhibiting the work of Pace faculty and students, and
regularly exhibiting curated work of leading digital artists. It
sponsors lectures and symposia on digital art, an artist-in-residence
program, and publication of materials for its documentation and
promotion.
Location
Located at 163 William
Street, a few blocks from City Hall, The Brooklyn Bridge, and Wall
Street, Pace’s Digital Gallery is part of a vital downtown NYC art
scene that includes historic architecture and national museums.
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