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Indepth Arts News:
"Transmute"
1999-07-24 until 1999-09-19
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Chicago, ,
USA United States of America
Independent art critic and curator Joshua Decter has been
invited by the MCA to create the second of four annual
multimedia projects that utilize the MCAs Collection.
Transmute consists of two parts: an exhibition of artworks,
and two touch-screen computer kiosks, which serve as an
interactive component of the exhibition. In the spring, the
Museum will invite the public to submit images that respond to
an artwork in the Collection. Using the kiosks, visitors will then
be able to assemble an artwork incorporating images
submitted by the public. The kiosks will also allow visitors to
become virtual curators and to consider how an exhibition is
arranged, how they might organize their own ideas, and how
artworks look in different arrangements by using a
touch-screen monitor at the computer terminal. An online
component of the project will also be launched on the MCA
website.
In the virtual artist component of the
exhibition, you will have an opportunity
to re-create one of the exhibitions
central artworks - John Baldessaris
Fish and Ram - in which the artist has
arranged six existing photographs.
Without any background knowledge
about Baldessari or Fish and Ram,
participants can use Transmute to recombine the images Baldessari
has gathered in many suggestive variations.
Call for Entries
The MCA invites you to look closely at Fish and Ram and think about
how the works images affect you. In response, may can submit an
original, two-dimensional image, no larger than 8 x 10 inches, which
may be used in a virtual reconstruction of Baldessaris work. Guest
curator Joshua Decter will select images from the submissions and
integrate them into an interactive computer program in the exhibition
galleries and on this website. This program will allow you to choose
from an archive of selected images to assemble your own virtual
Fish and Ram. To submit an image for possible inclusion in this
program, please send it to Transmute c/o MCA, 220 E. Chicago
Ave., Chicago IL 60611. Submissions will not be returned.
In the virtual curator component of the exhibition, you are invited to
reinvent it by using on-site computers, which will provide
three-dimensional views of the gallery and the works of art. You can
move works of art to various parts of the virtual museum space, and
reassemble your own version of the exhibition. You may also curate
a portion of Transmute on the MCA website, starting in September
1999.
Transmute is a Stir It Up program. Stir It Up is an MCA program that
connects Chicago-area students with contemporary art, artists, and
the MCA. The MCA currently works with seven colleges and
universities in the Chicago area to expand participation in the arts.
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