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EXHIBITS IN 2008 Click here for the current exhibition.
Boundary Crossings The world of digital technology is a land of contradictions. In cyberspace, users are at once isolated (physically alone with their screens) but also involved in communities that wouldn’t otherwise exist. Online data-mining and surveillance technology contributes to the loss of individual privacy but in the virtual world of online role-playing games, myspace, and the blogosphere, invented identities and fictitious histories are commonplace. The technological space that collects and disseminates an alarming abundance of personal information also facilitates new modes anonymity. It is a place where separating fact from fiction has become increasingly difficult. The three artists in Boundary Crossings question what remains once the borders between everyday reality and individual fiction collapse. Rather than seek out a clear universal answer, each artist navigates a personal journey across the borders of her own realities and fictions. Combining seemingly contradictory elements, the exhibition is at once melancholy and joyous, acknowledging the singularity of the subject while celebrating a renewal of community and embracing new media as well as traditional art forms. Nadine Freund is a video and text based artist who draws inspiration from the landscapes of the online metaverse Second Life. Freunds’s large-scale video imagery is reminiscent of the sweeping aesthetic of romantic landscape painting, while her text based work focuses on the quiet space of human intimacy. In both, Freund investigates the links between what she refers to as “human estrangement in the ways we encounter nature and each other (online and off) and how language and image mediate those encounters”. Ariana Wol is a low-tech performance artist who draws upon the feminist and fluxus movements of the 1960’s and 70’s, exhibiting black and white photographs and 8mm film as documentation. Deceptively simple and somewhat anachronistic, Wol’s work possesses a refreshing sincerity and surprising lack of irony. It is difficult, however (knowing how prevalent the digital manipulation of images is), not to question the veracity of the situations documented. The work, according to Ms. Wol, reminds us that “once we become aware that everything is to some degree fictional- an illusion, a disguise, a cheap trick- we must also recognize that belief is a choice”. A.N.N.A (an international digital collective) openly works to shatter all boundaries – political, physical, sociocultural, economic and artistic. A.N.N.A.’s work combines appropriated online content, commercial imagery, psychoanalytic theory and pop culture icons. Its recent interventions have coupled digital video footage of the IKEA website with well known love songs to question the relationship between modernity and human intimacy. At once unabashedly sentimental and ironically distanced, A.N.N.A. dubs itself “a radically pathetic movement” that is “subversively mainstream”. Its goal is to “use the form of online collective action to reassert the humanity of the individual”. Contact Information: School 33 Art Center: school33@promotionandarts.com or curator Christine Bailey: baileychristine@mac.com
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