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8/4/2005

Two exhibitions

New Museum Chelsea, New York

FIONA TAN: CORRECTION

Fiona Tan's Correction will be the first commission presented at the New Museum as part of the Three M Project, a consortium between the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, to commission and exhibit new works of art by emerging international artists.

In Correction, Tan uses video portraiture to explore stereotypes and representation by filming approximately 300 prison inmates and guards in four U.S. facilities. Each forty-second portrait features an anonymous inmate or guard standing as still as possible in front of the camera as they are filmed framed from the waist up, a reference to the Amerikanische Einstellung (the American shot) technique used in Hollywood in the 30's, 40's and 50's. The intense focus of her camera's gaze turns each prisoner from an anonymous statistic into a distinct individual.

Fiona Tan: Correction is part of a series of commissioned works organized and presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Generous support for the series has been provided by the Peter Norton Family Foundation and the American Center Foundation.

Fiona Tan: Correction also received support from the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, and The Consulate General of The Netherlands in New York. The exhibition catalogue is supported in part by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.

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TRANSMISSION II: AIRBORNE
Media Lounge

The wireless spectrum is being used (and regulated) today for rapidly expanding applications. As the commercial uses for wireless technologies multiply, there is a parallel momentum of artists considering the same media for creative expression. Airborne, the second in the museum's Transmission series, profiles exciting new projects by New York-based artists who investigate the aesthetic, sonic, and socio-political aspects of the wireless spectrum.

Selected from an open call, artists 31 Down, Mendi+Keith Obadike, LoVid (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus), Melissa Dubbin and Aaron Davidson, neuroTransmitter, Paul Davies, and Tarikh Korula expose the otherwise fleeting and invisible airwaves in everyday life through conceptual projects, networked installations, live streams and audio-visual works.

Airborne is organized by Anne Barlow and Defne Ayas in collaboration with free103point9, a non-profit media arts organization focused on establishing and cultivating the genre Transmission Arts by promoting artists who explore ideas around transmission as a medium for creative expression. The New Museum’s Transmission series profiles artists and scholars working with the concept of "transmission" in the areas of new media, radio, sound, generative audio, and a vast array of broadcast media.

Media Lounge exhibitions and public programs are supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Jerome Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.

The New Museum of Contemporary Art receives general operating support from the Carnegie Corporation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, JPMorgan Chase, and members of the New Museum.

Image: Fiona Tan

New Museum of Contemporary Art / Chelsea
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