Kirsten Geisler
dal 10/4/2002 al 18/5/2002
Segnalato da
10/4/2002
Kirsten Geisler
Von Lintel Gallery, New York
Virtual World: Digital 3D animation. Geisler presents a virtual world that waits to be touched by human hands. Beautiful women respond to our caresses with winks and smiles. Common flies buzz when the viewer swats. Rose petals drift through space, carried on a digital breeze.
Virtual World
Digital 3D animation
Von Lintel Gallery is pleased to announce Kirsten Geisler's first solo
exhibition in the United States. Geisler presents a virtual world that
waits to be touched by human hands. Beautiful women respond to our caresses
with winks and smiles. Common flies buzz when the viewer swats. Rose
petals drift through space, carried on a digital breeze.
In this age of technology and bioengineering, what is not intended by nature
can often be achieved artificially. Geisler explores the discrepancies
between the synthetic and the natural, as well as the presence of
artificiality in what is alleged to be real. Her interactive computer
animations blur the boundaries between real and digital space and offer a
new experience in which the three-dimensional image has a two-dimensional
presence.
Geisler's Virtual Beauties are based on scientific ideals of perfect
feminine beauty. Beauty lures us with a cool gaze and waits for us to
initiate further contact. When we touch the LCD screen and stroke her
cheek, her reactions are autonomous. She might flirt with a wink or a kiss.
Touch her nose, ears or chin and she might shake her head or laugh. Beauty
does not discriminate  she responds to every participant.
The species Musca domestica virtualis is descended from the common housefly,
who appears to have followed us into virtual reality. It licks and cleans
itself when we touch the screen and takes off like a bug in the wild. It
reacts to our intervention and varies its behavior with a startling degree
of freedom.
Kirsten Geisler's Virtual Beauties and Musca domestica virtualis have
traveled throughout Europe and been exhibited at, among others, the Gemeente
Museum Den Haag; the Museum Ludwig, Cologne; the Museum für Mediale Künst,
ZKM Karlsruhe; the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam;
and the Tate Gallery, Liverpool. Geisler (German, b. 1949) is the
chairperson of medi@.haarlem, Institute for Media Arts in Haarlem, The
Netherlands.
In the picture: "Fly top"
- Interactive DVD
- touch screen and DVD player.
Opening reception: Thursday, April 11, 6-8 p.m.
For further information, contact the gallery at 212-242-0599.
VON LINTEL GALLERY
555 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
tel 212-242-0599
fax 212-242-0803