About Wave Farm
Space of Transmission
May 19, 2006 - Jun 11, 2006
299 Bedford Avenue
299 Bedford Avenue | Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
ConTemp Museum 299, in conjunction with Gallery @ 82, is pleased to announce the group exhibition Space of Transmission at 299 Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, May 19 June 11 2006. A reception for the artists will be held on May 19, 6 9 pm, with a performance by Warren Ng of This Invitation.
At the end of a line, one child has a message. She whispers this into the ear of the child next to her. Receiving the message, the next child does the same, so on and so forth. When the last child in line receives the message, she repeats it aloud, and its mistranslation is instantly recognized and enjoyed. When the first child then repeats her original message, the misrecognition is only intensified. The game Telephone recreates, quite simply, the intrinsic and irreducible digressions of communication. That a childrens game might explicate the nature of transmission is as counter-intuitive as it is magical.
The exhibition Space of Transmission explores the expanded and multifaceted field of such digressions, and the metaphysical spaces they produce. Through diverse mediums and approaches to the subject, all the artists work within the ever-fluid space of communication, wherein the individual dissolves and multiplicity begins. As much as we may be tempted to think of art in terms of a stable singular expression, it is in this space of (mis)translation that new relationalities and meanings emerge. Rather than disavow such perceptions, the artists embrace the field of such sensory aberrations, through various psychological, scientific, or socio-political affects.
The interdisciplinary and elegant work of Tim Clifford engages the physical structures of globalized communication systems, and how our perceptual and bodily relation to them determines unintentional modes of address. Similarly, Michael Nesázals poetic compositions expose how such ubiquitous communication structures have mutated themselves into the natural landscape, thus a hyper-topography.
Exhibition curator Jason Paradis vibrant and sublime work emerges from the moment when psychic projection touches structures of knowledge. The results emanate an organic constellation of fleeting perceptions. Swedish artist Patrik Qvest playfully materializes the ethereal movement of thought, making transmission itself a physical and transcendent entity.
By erasing the text of TV schedules, Stephen Sollins drawings subtly call attention to how codes of transmission are as much about erasure as they are about utterance. Likewise, Max Liboirons prints depict complex codes and diagrams, only to be obfuscated, thus troubling the pleasure of reception. Both artists carefully transgress the McLuhan medium/message pseudo-duality.
Using 1980s video games as his source material, brianelectro exaggerates technologys subversive glitches, creating a singular aesthetic. Through such unexpected ruptures, the machines spiritual ghosts emerge, reconfiguring the plane of our very consciousness.
For more information contact Megan Sirianni at 516-674-0831 or artgallery82@gmail.com.
At the end of a line, one child has a message. She whispers this into the ear of the child next to her. Receiving the message, the next child does the same, so on and so forth. When the last child in line receives the message, she repeats it aloud, and its mistranslation is instantly recognized and enjoyed. When the first child then repeats her original message, the misrecognition is only intensified. The game Telephone recreates, quite simply, the intrinsic and irreducible digressions of communication. That a childrens game might explicate the nature of transmission is as counter-intuitive as it is magical.
The exhibition Space of Transmission explores the expanded and multifaceted field of such digressions, and the metaphysical spaces they produce. Through diverse mediums and approaches to the subject, all the artists work within the ever-fluid space of communication, wherein the individual dissolves and multiplicity begins. As much as we may be tempted to think of art in terms of a stable singular expression, it is in this space of (mis)translation that new relationalities and meanings emerge. Rather than disavow such perceptions, the artists embrace the field of such sensory aberrations, through various psychological, scientific, or socio-political affects.
The interdisciplinary and elegant work of Tim Clifford engages the physical structures of globalized communication systems, and how our perceptual and bodily relation to them determines unintentional modes of address. Similarly, Michael Nesázals poetic compositions expose how such ubiquitous communication structures have mutated themselves into the natural landscape, thus a hyper-topography.
Exhibition curator Jason Paradis vibrant and sublime work emerges from the moment when psychic projection touches structures of knowledge. The results emanate an organic constellation of fleeting perceptions. Swedish artist Patrik Qvest playfully materializes the ethereal movement of thought, making transmission itself a physical and transcendent entity.
By erasing the text of TV schedules, Stephen Sollins drawings subtly call attention to how codes of transmission are as much about erasure as they are about utterance. Likewise, Max Liboirons prints depict complex codes and diagrams, only to be obfuscated, thus troubling the pleasure of reception. Both artists carefully transgress the McLuhan medium/message pseudo-duality.
Using 1980s video games as his source material, brianelectro exaggerates technologys subversive glitches, creating a singular aesthetic. Through such unexpected ruptures, the machines spiritual ghosts emerge, reconfiguring the plane of our very consciousness.
For more information contact Megan Sirianni at 516-674-0831 or artgallery82@gmail.com.