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4.21.2011
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Opening April
30
[dNASAb]
Dataklysmos:
Multidimensional
Sculptures
April 30 - June 4,
2011
Opening Reception with the
Artist: Saturday, April 30,
6-8PM
Irvine Contemporary
is pleased to announce Dataklysmos, an exhibition of new
multimedia sculptures and digital video works by [dNASAb]. [dNASAb] (who
goes by "Disney") is a Brooklyn-based artist who constructs complex,
multidimensional works that visualize the world of data and the materiality of
digital technology in new ways. In the age of hybrid media, the artist has
created a name as an acronym for "Disney-NASA-Borg," and works in
multidimensional sculptures as a deconstruction of what he sees as the
"Disneyfication" of our post-digital imagination. Dataklysmos
presents another visualization of our datasphere in the context of Washington,
DC, a region that is home to Internet architecture and major connecting nodes
for global Internet data
traffic.
[dNASAb], installation at Volta New York, March, 2011. Unique
sculpture, LED HD 720p screen, Digital Media Player
and HD video, LEDs, welded steel, resin, phosphorescent silicon,
plastic, fiber optics.
[dNASAb]'s luminous
complexity models work to expose the hidden density of sheer material stuff
that feeds our media and computer devices. Our media technologies present
themselves in conflicting material forms: on one side we have the sleek,
thin, flat-panel, high-res screens of all sizes, the intentional black boxes
of the iPhone/iPad, and the metal and plastic hinges of laptops that close
with a neat codex clasp. On the other, we have the messy tangle of parts and
wires visible inside a broken PC or TV, and the rat's nest of cables, wires,
Wi-Fi routers, AC adapters, and extension cords behind every desk and and
living room entertainment unit. Behind it all are overwhelming flows of data,
information, and signals that we keep mainly invisible, cables snaking through
the walls to the neat wall jack in our office or living room or devices
working wirelessly and dependent on invisible radio waves.
[dNASAb] draws from
several art historical and conceptual sources extending from Nam Jun Paik to
recent digital media art. He draws from Paik's television sculptures,
installations, and video projections and Paik's strategies to expose the
fetishizing of the screen and television as a presence in lived space. His
works are also compared with Julie Mehertu's large-scale paintings of global
networks, cities, and connecting infrastructures and with Matthew Ritchie's
paintings and sculptures that visualize
networks.
[Read more from the
Curatorial
Introduction...]
About the
Artist
[dNASAb] has a BFA in
Sculpture and Mixed Media from Florida State University, and was awarded an
International Summer Residency at the Experimental Television Center, Owego,
NY (2006), where he worked with the “Wobulator,” Nam Jun
Paik’s pioneering video synthesizer. In 2010, [dNASAb] was awarded a
scholarship at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York, and an
Artist's Residency at the Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University,
New York. He was recently an Artist Honoree at the BRIC Contemporary Art
Gala, 2010, "Brooklyn Art:Work". [dNASAb] has exhibited widely in the past ten
years, including exhibitions in New York, Moscow, Basel, Switzerland, Seoul,
South Korea, and Paris. He produced a solo installation of new works at
Volta, New York (March, 2011), and a solo exhibition in New York with
Frederieke Taylor Gallery (2010). He is featured on the MoMA-P.S.1 "Studio Visit" site. He presented a video of his
work in the "Contemporary Art + Social Media Art Salon," Art Basel-Miami Beach
(2009) [view video]. [dNASAb] will have a solo exhibition at the
Museum of the Moving Image, NY, next year. Four of his works were acquired by
Microsoft for their permanent art collection. The artist lives and works in
Brooklyn,
NY.
Final Week of Current
Exhibition:
Image/Fame/Memory
Curtis Knapp, Gerard Malanga,
Billy Name, Kate Simon
& Shepard Fairey in
collaboration with Billy Name and Kate
Simon
Through Saturday, April
23
[Info]
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| Kate Simon, Patti
Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, NYC. Cibachrome
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Billy Name, Nico,
1964/2011. Gelatin silver
print. |
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Curtis Knapp, Dennis
Hopper, 1983. Silver Gelatin
Print. |
Gallery
information
For further information, contact Lauren Gentile, Director,
202-332-8767 or lauren@irvinecontemporary.com.
IRVINE CONTEMPORARY
Martin Irvine, Proprietor &
Director
Lauren Gentile,
Director
1412 14th St., NW, Washington, DC
20005
www.irvinecontemporary.com
Phone: (202) 332-8767
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