TITLE Landscapes-Worlds Real
EVENT Art Exhibition
ARTISTS: Robert Pietrusko, Jon Rafman, Ingo Gunther, Katja Loher, Igal Nassima
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DESCRIPTION
This exhibition showcases artists and designers who engage in abstracting realities through mapping data structures and constructing worlds. Visual data, urban planning for remote countries and cartographic methodologies will be exhibited. Collectively, these artists provide insight into overlapping realities of the real and the virtual.
CURATED BY Kristin Trethewey
August 8-28, 2011
266 W 37 Street, NY, NY
Open Daily W-Sun 12PM-5PM
Opening Party: Thursday August 11 6PM-8PM
Closing Party: Thursday August 25 6PM-8PM
Ingo Gunther since 1989, Günther uses globes as a medium for
his artistic and journalistic interests. In 1989, 9 months before the
reunification of Germany, he founded the first independent TV
station in Eastern Europe Channel X, Leipzig in order to contribute
to the establishment of a free media landscape.
http://www.worldprocessor.com/
Jon Rafman is a Montreal-born film-maker and new media artist.
He holds a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
and a BA in Philosophy and Literature from McGill University.
http://jonrafman.com/
Robert Gerard Pietrusko is an engineer-designer focusing on the
relationship between contemporary technology and spatial products. His
work has been exhibited at the SF MoMA, The Venice Architecture
Biennale, and The Foundation Cartier, among others, and has been
featured in Metropolis, Architectural Record, and Domus. Recently,
Gerard co-founded Harvard University’s new digital humanities research
initiative— metaLAB. He is currently a 2011 artist-in-residence at
the ZKM Institute for Visual Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Katja Loher projects her videos onto the surface of large shiny
orbs hanging in the galleryspace. Loher‘s sculptural video works
address a field of tension between escapist phantasy and oppressive
reality. Her surreal worlds are populated by realistic figures that
tumble aboutvirtual spaces and appear to be intent on preventing
ecological collapse.
http://www.katjaloher.com/
Igal Nassima is a programmer and an artist from Istanbul, Turkey. He is the director of 319 Scholes Performance Space,
a venue in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Past shows include, US V THEM: A Showcase of Young Improvisers: Part of THEM AND NOW, New Museum, NYC
Storm Your Brain, Whitney Museum, NYC
Poetry in the Post-Now, Bowery Poetry Club, NYC
Arts For Transit – MTA – Bryant Bark/42nd Street Station,NYC
Spring Show 2010, Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYC
Winter Show 2009, Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYC
LESS – The Annex, NYC. 2006 – 2008
Bushwick Art Project, 3rd Ward, NYC
Passage, 319 Scholes Performance Space, NYC.http://materials.nassima.com
