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For Immediate Press Release:
VertexList
space has the pleasure to present ÒRandom Access PoeticsÓ
featuring
new media projects by:
[dNASAb], Ernesto Klar,
Prize Budget
for Boys and Lance Wakeling.
ÒRandom
Access PoeticsÓ focuses on the processor-based new media work dealing with
exposing invisible aspect of information. This exhibition brings together young
Brooklyn new media artists and the Harlem/Toronto based collective Prize Budget
for Boys.
The
reception will take place on Friday, March 16th 2007, 7pm - 10pm.
In
conjunction with the reception party Ms. PacMondrian will perform "Trance Dance
Seance" at 8.30pm
The
exhibition will be on display
until Sunday, April 22th
2007.
Work on
display:
[dNASAb]
I-Pod
Sculptures
The
I-Pod, now being 5 years old, is deeply integrated into the lives of millions
globally, and speaks of the fetishism that modern consumers have for new
electronic mobile devices. [dNASAb] sees these new devices as raw materials for
artistic creation. Thus the beginning of the
I-pod
sculpture series. The first group are continuously looping, wall hanging,
painted audio/video sculptures. The sculpture actually provides the energy, and
audio components to make the I-Pod have a life and voice, It is a symbiotic
relationship. Each I-Pod has its own unique custom
video
and video playlists relating to the sculptural elements. [dNASAb] also has
started to work directly onto the I-Pod screens sculpturally, integrating an
image in motion on a two-dimensional screen is a visionary artistic precursor
to the actual future technological advancements of video fabrics, holographic
projection screens, and virtual reality.
Ernesto
Klar
Parallel
Convergence
"Convergenze
parallele" is an audiovisual installation in which airborne dust particles
passing through a beam of light are tracked, visualized, and sonified in
real-time by a custom software system. The installation reacts to both natural
and artificial air movements in the exhibition space, prompting the viewer to
interact by blowing air towards the light and to observe the amplified
sound-image relationships. The custom software system integrates computer
vision and sound synthesis algorithms. The software pulses one electric fan
with a dust receptacle that saturates the system at random intervals, and
deploys a video camera to track the location of individual dust particles. This data is then translated into
sound in real-time, mapping dust particles data to synthesized sound particles
in a surround sound field. The visualization projected on the wall
consists of an image-processed
view that reveals the particles trajectory. "Convergenze parallele"
explores the poetic potential of revealing and transforming the imperceptible,
in the attempt to "see the invisible, or if you like, take a sounding on
the incommensurable.
Prize
Budget for Boys
Calderoids
Calderoids
is an irreverent mash-up of fine art and video games, where you dodge and
destroy Alexander Calder's kinetic mobiles in the triangular ship of Atari's
space shooter Asteroids. The ubiquitous mobiles we hang over baby cribs were
originally conceived by Calder as fanciful models of the universe: "There
is of course a close alliance between physics and aesthetics." Based on a
physically exact model of mobiles in space, Calderoids frees you from gravity
to fly around and zap Calder's sculptures in your cosmic spacecraft.
Lance Wakeling
Study
for Portrait of the Internet (static)_
Without
crawlers roaming the internet and archiving links, images, and keywords, no one
would have any idea how to find anything online. Search engines rely on
crawlers to traverse links and chart the internet; spammers need them to harvest
email addresses. My crawler is a simple creature, it makes 'slideshows' from
images that people post on web pages, the images of the sites they link to, and
the images of the sites linked to from there, and so on, and on. 'Study for
Portrait of the Internet (static)' is a never-ending slideshow of GIF, JPG, and
PNG images that runs off a modded xbox. A lot of the images that are downloaded
are navigation widgets. As we move through larger landscapes of information
with increasing speed, the apparatus for navigation becomes more and more the
dominant component of our experience. Eventually, the experience of moving
through data becomes more about interacting with the navigational apparatus and
less about the environment being traversed--like the difference between riding
a bicycle and piloting a jet.
Ms.
PacMondrian : "Trance Dance Seance"
Inspired
by the outrageous costumes and antics of 80s London club god Leigh Bowery and
the exuberant theatrics of contemporary videogame cosplay, The Ms. Pac-Mondrian
Trance Dance Seance Performance reincarnates Piet Mondrian's spirit through
ecstatic dance. Ms. Pac-Mondrian, the psychedelic shaman, dances a burlesque to
the boogie woogie sound effects
of
the game. Guided by Mondrian's firm theosophical belief that he was an old soul
reincarnated many times, the PBFB invite you to a
kinaesthetic/synaeasthetic
extravaganza to raise the dead and bring back the boogie.
VertexList
gallery hours are Friday, Saturday, Sunday 2pm - 6 pm, or by appointment.
We
are located between Graham and Manhattan Avenues on Bayard St. For more info
please
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or call 646 258 3792.
Special
thanks to Steven Miyao and http://www.kasina.com/ for their ongoing support.