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Indepth Arts News: "010101 : Art in Technological Times" 2001-03-03 until 2001-07-08 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA, USA
In the 010101 SFMOMA galleries, visitors will find a range of such video works,
sculptures, design projects, computer-driven installations, traditional drawings and
paintings, and new art works commissioned for the gallery. There is a an intense sense of
experimentation with new forms and formats technology makes possible. This is true both
for the methods of making art (like digital design) and viewing it (like the Internet). Other
artists have chosen to reflect on technology by mining what are still the considerable
expressive powers of traditional media. What makes this art worth looking at is its ability to
help us see forces that often seem too large and abstract for us to hold onto. Artists, in
other words, are adopting technology in the studio, deploying it in the gallery, inhabiting it
on the Internet, and making work that reflects its presence in society in a stunning range of
ways.
The artists exhibiting their work in these galleries do not all think of themselves as being
high-tech, but they do take advantage of what technology can do for them. Their work is
driven less by the devotion to a distinct medium or style than by the will to articulate certain
ideas and situations in visible, tangible form.
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Technology is changing every aspect of our daily lives. The 010101 : Art in Technological
Times gallery exhibition shows how artists are responding to these gadgets and gizmos,
screens and scrims that now surround us. It also shows them crystallizing the larger forces,
such as globalization, the near pornography of available information and forms, and the
increased fluidity of our identities, these bits and bytes imply.