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4/7/2003

While You Were Playing Rubik's Cube

Flux Factory (old venue), New York

Flux Factory is pleased to announce While You Were Playing Rubik's Cube opening

Saturday July 5th 8:00 pm Special live performance by Beige and Paul Slocum

There was a day When Super Mario's last level was the Final frontier, nothing mattered more than saving the earth from Space Invaders. Existence was a three dimensional world lived within comic books. It was never so good to be a teenager. These days are gone and Nintendo nes, Atari, and Commodore 64 are long forgotten. Except, maybe, for a few obscure Nerds and a handful of artists.

This show presents a selection of works emanating from that era, works that reflect and build on the particular feel of the Eighties and what experience was like then. There was a particular energy at the time, in being a teenager of that decade, that is unmistakable. This show is not about nostalgia, it is about reconnecting to the specificity of that era through the medium of art and it is about transforming that experience into something new.

Game as a culture, binary as a language, pixel as an aesthetic.

Artist/musician Cory Arcangel from the Beige collective makes Video Art by modifying old Nintendo game cartridges. For instance, in a minimalist exercise he has removed everything but the Clouds from the original Super Mario Game. In another work he has replaced previous targets of a typical Shoot em'up game with the characters Flavor Flav, Andy Warhol, and Colonel Sanders.
http://www.beigerecords.com/

French Anonymous street artist Space Invader makes mosaics from the eponymous video game, which he puts up in public spaces of his victim city. His Invasions are part of a global project. Each attack is complemented by a map of the city showing all the target sites.
http://www.space-invaders.com/

Nathan Fox, Steve Hobson, and Corey Goering from the Machismo Art group make gigantic complex wall paintings that appear in three dimensions when looked at through 3D glasses. Their work links pop art, renaissance painting, comics, and op-art. Cardboard red and blue glasses become a prism that reveal multiple layers within the image. Their painting is a spectacle where depth and motion come alive. It goes beyond trompe lx{2019}oeil or optical illusion. It achieves the paradox of three-dimensional painting.
http://www.machismoart.com/

Musician Justin Braun presents his Calico Suite. Using different early computers he builds up a more and more complex composition as the technology of the instruments evolves (8, 16, 32 and 64 bits).

Art hobbyist Benjamin Heckendorn rebuilds old Atari and Super NES gaming consoles. Discarded and obsolete, Heckendorn rewires the old circuit boards and builds new cases made from solid plastic and oak. His work has recently been featured in Wired magazine.
http://www.classicgaming.com/vcsp/

Paul Slocum creates software that allows computer printers to play musical sequences using the print head, paper roller motor, and error beeper for sound output. Some of the units are geared for performing and others as self-standing installation pieces.
http://qotile.net/

David Griffin is a musician who graduated from Sarah Lawrence college and is the founding member of the Karlovi-vary music ensemble. David makes music out of old computers by re-programming them into electronic musical devices.
http://www.dupreau.com/david_griffen.htm

Brody Condon is a Mexican born artist, recently awarded a grant and residency by the Franklin Furnace Foundation. His art revolves around the cultural detritus of our time and he has done a number of game modifications, including prints from the ROM check series in this show.
http://www.tmpspace.com/

Image: Cory Arcangel

Flux Factory
3838 43rd Street.
Long Island City, NY 11101
USA
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