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5/2/2013

The Public Private

Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries C. Johnson Design Center, New York

The Public Private will be the first New York exhibition of contemporary art to explore the impact of social media and new technologies on the relationship between the public and private realm. The artworks brought together in The Public Private—several presented for the first time in the United States—address these issues from psychological, legal, and economic perspectives and use strategies ranging from hacking to self-surveillance to reflect upon the profound changes in our understanding of identity, personal boundaries, and self-representation.

Works on view include Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico's Face to Facebook, a multimedia installation of one million Facebook profiles, which were appropriated" by the artists, filtered using facial-recognition software, and then posted on a custom-made dating website sorted by facial expressions. Eva and Franco Mattes' The Others is a video installation composed of 10,000 photos the Mattes have acquired through a software glitch that gives remote access to personal computer files. The core of the work is not just the presentation of these images, but the act of "stealing" and moving them from the private into the public realm.

Other artists and works represented in the gallery include Jill Magid's Evidence Locker, Luke Dubois' Missed Connections, Wafaa Bilal's 3rdi, Carlo Zanni's Self Portrait with Friends, James Coupe's Panoptic Panorama #2: Five People in a Room, Paolo Cirio's Street Ghosts, and Ben Grosser's Facebook Demetricator.

The Public Private is curated by Christiane Paul, an Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School and Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The exhibitions and public programs in its two galleries encourage an interdisciplinary examination of possibility and process, blurring the boundaries between classroom, laboratory and exhibition, and link the university to local and global debates.

Artists' tours:

Wednesday, February 27, 2013
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Wafaa Bilal, Paolo Cirio, and Jill Magie with curator Christiane Paul

Thursday, March 13, 2013
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Luke DuBois and Eva and Franco Mattes with curator Christiane Paul

Image: Carlo Zanni, Self Portrait with Friends, (Fannulloni) 2012

For press inquiries, please contact
212.229.5151 or communications@newschool.edu
Christopher Chafin 212-229-5667 x3794 chafinc@newschool.edu

Opening reception: Wednesday, February 6, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Sheila C. Johnson Design Center - Parsons The New School for Design
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery
66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street New York
Hours
Open daily 12:00 noon - 6:00 p.m. and late Thursday evenings until 8:00 p.m.; closed on all major holidays and holiday eves.
Closed:
Monday, February 18 (Presidents' Day)
Sunday, March 31 (Easter)
Admission is free.

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