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Indepth Arts News:
"Real: Digital Installation by Aaron Fry and Sally McLaughlin"
2001-08-17 until 2001-09-12
Gallery at Green Street
Boston, MA,
USA United States of America
The Gallery at Green Street will become a multi-screen and digital
installation visible from the street, park and walkways around the Green
Street MBTA Station for four weeks, 24 hours a day. Shaped projection
screens and a series of monitors will animate the entire Gallery at Green
Street with moving sequences of still images and text.
The images are stills pulled from videos shot around the world by this
Boston / Australia / New Zealand based artist team of Aaron Fry and
Sally McLaughlin. The large database of images from Spain, Hawaii,
Italy, New Zealand, Australia, New England and other locations allows a
different scenario to be on view each time a viewer encounters the
installation. Broad category headings are intermittently superimposed on
the images which are sequenced by a main computer and the juxtaposition
of images and texts changes throughout the run of the installation.
In contrast to the desire for self contained simulation that lies
behind many virtual reality projects we are interested in activating
references to rich constellations of practice. The consistency in the
format and presentation of images achieved through digital processing
facilitates the construction of relationships between the images. The
viewer is encouraged read the coincident fragments as a whole.
At the heart of the project is a database of images, a sampling of
these categories includes terms such as, nature , prosthesis and
body, we have chosen terms that reveal something of the practices,
often implicit, that are at play in the construction and interpretation
of contemporary environments. Images and categories were chosen that had
the potential to raise issues of mediation and authenticity. For this
reason many of the images are from places that are heavily coded in
particular natural or artificial ways. Through the juxtaposition of
image with image and image with categories, shifts in understanding will
occur. Assumptions about the real are brought into play. -- Aaron Fry
/ Sally McLaughlin
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