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exhibition & SRL performance @ POST [7/6]
Exhibition information for POST at 1904 East 7th Place, Los Angeles, CA
90021.
Exhibition: e-motion
Curator: Susan Joyce
Exhibition Dates: July 6 - August 3, 2002
Regular Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 12:00 noon - 6 PM
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 6, 7:00 - 10:00 PM
SRL performance @ 9:30PM
POST is pleased to present e-motion featuring new media; motion based
works by Kent Anderson Butler, Casey Hanrahan, Kristine Marx, Yucef
Merhi, Mark Pauline, Erwin Redl, and James Rouvelle.
Since the invention of motion pictures a century ago, artists have
been experimenting in innovative ways, exploring the possibilities of
art and technology. Electronic culture has expanded the world of
visual art. The works in this exhibition represent the use of
technology in creative and meaningful applications. In concert with
artistic expression, these artists employ diverse disciplines such as
light, sound, video, performance, language, and engineering. Ideas
are transformed into visceral experiences, all in some way engage in
the activity of motion, and in some instances interaction between the
works occur. We are just beginning to scratch the surface on
understanding the potential of technology and its relationship to
contemporary art. With the assimilation of machine to technology,
cultural transformations take place. The evolution of electronic
culture is a change in the dynamics of society, representation and
experience.
Kent Anderson Butler - performance/video installation "Immersion" is
an investigation of the union between two people and represents the
process of ritual and spiritual experience.
Casey Hanrahan -Using materials such as aluminum, steel, and rivets,
the artist employs systems of mathematics and design to construct
optical meditative drawings for the purpose of targets.
Kristine Marx - video installation depicts situations that are both
intimate and impersonal. The banal is experienced as a spatially
disorienting and isolating event. The work draws attention to the
elastic, permeable boundary between self and other, interior and
exterior, reality and illusion.
Yucef Merhi - Poetic Words is a work constituted by 4 light emitting
spinning devices. When people interact with these machines they will
see a word, created by combining two words, related to a social,
philosophical or political issue, like Anorecstasy (Anorexia -
Ecstasy). In Artistotelian terms, the words always exist in potency
but become poetry in motion when
the spectators spin the object and feel/interpret the content. Most
recent net-poetry project of Merhi can be experienced at
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/yucef.
Mark Pauline - Survival Research Laboratories videos of machine
experiments and performances. SRL was conceived and founded by Mark
Pauline in 1978 as an organization of creative technicians dedicated
to redirecting the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry,
science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in
practicality, product or warfare. SRL has staged over 50 mechanized
performances in the United States and Europe that consist of a unique
set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special
effects devices, employed in developing themes of socio-political
satire. Humans are present only as audience or operators.
http://www.srl.org
Erwin Redl - elevator shaft light installation. In this body of
work, space is experienced as a second skin, our social skin, which
is transformed through artistic intervention. Due to the very nature
of its architectural dimension, participating by simply being
"present" is an integral part of the installation. Visual perception
has to work in conjunction with corporeal motion, and the passage of
time, an additional parameter of motion. Redl's light installation
was recently featured at the 2002 Whitney Biennial.
James Rouvelle - interactive sound robotics. Robots are sensitive to
changes in light and sound. A blue LED at the tip of each responds
to its environment by either illuminating, holding, or dimming at
various speeds. Each robot attempts to locate others by emitting,
sensing, and responding to a sound similar to sonar. Movement by
visitors in the space creates an additional dimension of
interactivity.
Kent Anderson Butler - performance/video installation "Immersion" is
an investigation of the union between two people and represents the
process of ritual and spiritual experience.
Casey Hanrahan -Using materials such as aluminum, steel, and rivets,
the artist employs systems of mathematics and design to construct
optical meditative drawings for the purpose of targets.
Kristine Marx - video installation depicts situations that are both
intimate and impersonal. The banal is experienced as a spatially
disorienting and isolating event. The work draws attention to the
elastic, permeable boundary between self and other, interior and
exterior, reality and illusion.
Yucef Merhi - Poetic Words is a work constituted by 4 light emitting
spinning devices. When people interact with these machines they will
see a word, created by combining two words, related to a social,
philosophical or political issue, like Anorecstasy (Anorexia -
Ecstasy). In Artistotelian terms, the words always exist in potency
but become poetry in motion when
the spectators spin the object and feel/interpret the content. Most
recent net-poetry project of Merhi can be experienced at
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/yucef.
Mark Pauline - Survival Research Laboratories videos of machine
experiments and performances. SRL was conceived and founded by Mark
Pauline in 1978 as an organization of creative technicians dedicated
to redirecting the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry,
science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in
practicality, product or warfare.SRL has staged over 50 mechanized
performances in the United States and Europe that consist of a unique
set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special
effects devices, employed in developing themes of socio-political
satire. Humans are present only as audience or operators.
http://www.srl.org
Erwin Redl - elevator shaft light installation. In this body of
work, space is experienced as a second skin, our social skin, which
is transformed through artistic intervention. Due to the very nature
of its architectural dimension, participating by simply being
"present" is an integral part of the installation. Visual perception
has to work in conjunction with corporeal motion, and the passage of
time, an additional parameter of motion. Redl's light installation
was recently featured at the 2002 Whitney Biennial.
James Rouvelle - interactive sound robotics. Robots are sensitive to
changes in light and sound. A blue LED at the tip of each responds
to its environment by either illuminating, holding, or dimming at
various speeds. Each robot attempts to locate others by emitting,
sensing, and responding to a sound similar to sonar. Movement by
visitors in the space creates an additional dimension of
interactivity.