the future is not what it used to be, 2009. Installation view.
the future is not what it used to be
February 28 - April 4, 2009
the future is not what it used to be brings together artists engaged in the Internet shaped culture. Through drawings,
photographs, sculpture, video, and online projects they explore social interaction in a networked world, reflection in the
times of speed, new communication tools and smart technologies affecting cultural and sociopolitical reality, sustainable
strategies for contemporary life, connectivity and dis-connect, digital/analog divide, instantaneity and obsolescence, the web
as the largest image depository ever, and new forms of appropriation, means of production, and modes of political engagement.
What we do today shapes our tomorrows.
Kevin Bewersdorf conducts Google searches for images that he then orders printed onto variety of objects
employing online services like walgreens.com. These remotely made "Promotional Objects" transcend banality of its
origins as private found imagery: from infinite web space onto a limited product, the unwitting subjects are made physical
once again, staring at you across time and space.
http://www.maximumsorrow.com/
Charles Broskoski presents a gallery version of an internet work entitled Films (2008,
http://films.supercentral.org).
The piece explores internet-time, or how time passes on the internet, by providing a contrast to immediacy of online media.
On his site, eight well known films (Pulp Fiction, Terminator 2 and When Harry Met Sally among them)
play continuously on a fixed daily schedule whether users visit the site or not. The screen is black save only for the subtitles
of the dialog. The gallery version corresponds with the daily schedule of Films online: Stand By Me (10:00 AM),
Shawshank Redemption (11:20 AM), Terminator 2 (1:37 PM), Trading Places (4:00 PM), Pulp Fiction (5:47 PM),
Back to the Future 2 (8:00 PM), When Harry Met Sally (9:42 PM), Batman (11:00 PM).
http://films.supercentral.org/9/
Marc Horowitz found an analog way to connect with his fellow twitterers: "for the next 100 people that add me on
twitter (http://www.twitter.com/marchorowitz ) I'll
send you a small drawing." The 100 drawings on view will be mailed out at the end of the show. Later, in a course of the
exhibition, every afternoon Horowitz will broadcast "AnHourADay.me" - a livestream video and chat talkshow with scheduled
field trips, interviews, concerts, covert meetings, cooking instruction, comedians, reviews, round tables, celebrity guests,
LA artist studio visits, road trips, and more.
http://www.ineedtostopsoon.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marchorowitz/sets/72157614516933854/
Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung has been called "the John Heartfield of the digital era" His collages and animations composed
entirely of imagery appropriated from the web deliver a biting political satire. New series —In God We Trust—presents
global and domestic challenges facing the new Obama administration with the savior president cast as different deities
(Jesus Christ, Mohammad, Krishna, prophet Abraham, Yoruba Orisha Trickster God Elegua/Eshu, Buddha, and Guadalupe)
http://www.111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.com/
http://www.tinkin.com/
Kristin Lucas pays hommage to the ever-replacable technological marvels: maclassic, a 25 years old icon of
personal computing, and other nearly forgotten hardware objects are cast in colored wax as beautiful yet perishable candles.
http://www169.pair.com/klucas/archive/
Michael Mandiberg's altered encyclopedias, dictionaries, and newspapers, words incised into them with a laser
cutter, highlight the loosing battle of printmedia at a time of user generated content, rapid online delivery and the never
ending newness of information. Everyday a fresh copy of The New York Times with the words "old news" cut onto it will be
delivered to the gallery, a stack accumulating over the course of the exhibition.
http://www.mandiberg.com/
Eva and Franco Mattes (aka 0100101110101101.org) inject new synthetic life into art long gone. Their avatars in
a virtual world Second Life re-enact seminal performance works from the seventies. Gilbert and George's The Singing Sculpture (1971)
and Marina Abramovic and Ulay's Imponderabilia (1977) are staged for a very different audience.
http://www.0100101110101101.org/
Joe McKay finds the ghosts of Google Street View van and Mapjack car. His photographs recreate these stealth
vehicles from partial reflections in store windows in San Francisco.
http://homepage.mac.com/joester5/art/
JooYoun Paek's inflatable objects are smart appliances for urban survival. A bicycle cover made from garbage bags
provides inconspicuous "blend-in" protection for a city cyclist, and a self-sustainable chair inflated by walking offers its user
an independence from the urban infrastructure.
http://www.jooyounpaek.com/
Sharing and communal nature and of online engagement has lead to formation of surfing clubs: group blogging sites with
fast-paced conceptual exchange based on treatment and analysis of online material. Marcin Ramocki & Paul Slocum
(with Spiritsurfers) will present here is it? a short video based on the blog posts of Spiritsurfers.
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/
http://ramocki.net/surfing-clubs.html/
* The title of this show is a quote from Paul Valery (1871-1945)
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the future is not what it used to be 2009 installation view |
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the future is not what it used to be 2009 installation view |
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Marcin Ramocki & Paul Slocum (with Spirit Surfers) Where is it? 2008 screen grabs Dvd, color, sound running time :1 min 37 sec ed of 4 +2APs |
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Michael Mandiberg Old News 2009 laser cut paper, accumulating stack, table 20 x 18 x 18 inches |
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JooYoun Paek Not Bicycle Cover 2008 4 digital C-prints, mounted on aluminum, laminated with non-glare plexiglas 20 x 30 inches each edition of 5 +AP |
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JooYoun Paek Not Bicycle Cover 2008 bicycle, inflated garbage bags, foot pump 102 x 50 x 57 inches |
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Michael Mandiberg Data Base 2009 laser-cut books, wooden shelf 57 x 15 x 12 inches |
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Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung Krishna - Odharma 2009 digital print on canvas 40 x 72 inches each edition of 5 + AP MORE images from the series(click) |
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Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung Elegua/Eshu - The Crossroads of Conflict 2009 digital print on canvas 40 x 72 inches each edition of 5 + AP |
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Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung Jesus Christ - Hope He Can Change this Shit! 2009 digital print on canvas 40 x 72 inches each edition of 5 + AP MORE images from the series(click) |
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Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung Mohammad The Nightmare Journey 2009 digital print on canvas 40 x 72 inches each edition of 5 + AP |
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Kevin Bewersdorf Google image search result for "guest" printed onto wooden serving tray and keepsake box by Walgreens.com 2009 mixed media 19 x 36 x 4 inches unique |
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Joe McKay Mapjack 2008 digital C-print, mounted on aluminum, laminated with non-glare plexiglas 20 x 35 inches edition of 5 + 1 AP |
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Joe McKay Streetview 2008 digital C-print, mounted on aluminum, laminated with non-glare plexiglas 20.5 x 29.5 inches edition of 5 + 1 AP |
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Kristin Lucas More Melting 2008 - 2009 Cast candles, colored beeswax, palm wax, soy wax, and parafin 86 x 60 x 12 inches (overall) |
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Kristin Lucas More Melting 2008 - 2009 - detail Cast candles, colored beeswax, palm wax, soy wax, and parafin 86 x 60 x 12 inches (overall) |
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Kristin Lucas More Melting 2008 - 2009 - detail Cast candles, colored beeswax, palm wax, soy wax, and parafin 86 x 60 x 12 inches (overall) |
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Kevin Bewersdorf Google image search result for "exhausted" printed onto blanket, tie, dog leash and golf towel by Walgreens.com 2009 mixed media 78 x 72 x 3 inches unique |
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Kevin Bewersdorf Google image search result for "exhausted" printed onto blanket, tie, dog leash and golf towel by Walgreens.com 2009 mixed media 78 x 72 x 3 inches unique |
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JooYoun Paek Self Sustainable Chair 2006 Dvd, color, sound Running time: 4 minutes Edition of 5 + AP |
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Marc Horowitz Twitter Drawings 2009 100 drawings, Ink on paper 4 3/4" x 5 1/2" each (68 x 64 overall) (unique - full set available as limited edition book) |
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Marc Horowitz Twitter Drawings 2009 - detail 100 drawings, Ink on paper 4 3/4" x 5 1/2" each (68" x 64" overall) (unique - full set available as limited edition book) |
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Eva and Franco Mattes (aka 0100101110101101.org) Reenactment of Marina Abramovic and Ulay's "Imponderabilia" - Synthetic performance in Second Life 2007 HD video, color, sound running time: 8 minutes 40 seconds Edition of 3 +AP |
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Charles Broskoski Films 2008 - installation view Found subtitle files and custom software http://films.supercentral.org (daily schedule of Films online: Stand By Me (10:00 AM), Shawshank Redemption (11:20 AM), Terminator 2 (1:37 PM), Trading Places (4:00 PM), Pulp Fiction (5:47 PM), Back to the Future 2 (8:00 PM), When Harry Met Sally (9:42 PM), Batman (11:00 PM)). |
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Eva and Franco Mattes (aka .org) Reenactment of Gilbert and George's "The Singing Sculpture" - Synthetic performance in Second Life 2007 HD video, color, sound running time: 9 minutes 38 seconds Edition of 3 +AP |