the GetAway Experiment
dal 15/5/2004 al 5/6/2004
Segnalato da
15/5/2004
the GetAway Experiment
Artspace Fine Art Gallery, Johannesburg
Physically Digital, Digitally Physical. New media artists marcus neustetter and nathaniel stern ironically explore textured, off-screen re-presentations of data, images and human communication. The GetAway Experiment, at the ArtSpace outside of Johannesburg, will exhibit never before seen artworks from stern's serial faces and neustetter's digital frottage. As they 'GetAway' from the machine, and examine alternative ways of translating data, their experiments lead them through various computer-based processes.
Physically Digital, Digitally Physical
New media artists marcus neustetter and nathaniel stern ironically explore textured, off-screen re-presentations of data, images and human communication. The GetAway Experiment, at the ArtSpace outside of Johannesburg, will exhibit never before seen artworks from stern's serial faces and neustetter's digital frottage. As they 'GetAway' from the machine, and examine alternative ways of translating data, their experiments lead them through various computer-based processes. Adventures that began in zeros and ones have since evolved into large prints and layered collages. In addition, stern and neustetter's site-specific collaborations use the more traditional methods of tracing, rubbing and collaging, in order to capture technological remnants in an invitational exploration of denotation, connotation and myth.
Biographies:
nathaniel stern (NYC / Johannesburg) is an internationally exhibited installation artist, net.artist and performance poet. He received his BS in Textiles and Apparel Design from Cornell University, and his Masters from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, in Interactive Telecommunications. His interactive installations have won awards in New York, South Africa and Australia, and his net.art has been featured in festivals all over Europe, Asia and the US. nathaniel's collaborative physical theatre and multimedia performance work has won three FNB Vita Awards - including Best Presentation of a New Contemporary Work - and has been featured on the main stage at the Grahamstown Festival. His poetry repertoire includes the US National Poetry Slam competition and the HIV/AIDS Arts, Media & Film Festival (South Africa). He currently lives and works both in and from Johannesburg, as an adjunct faculty member of the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, external lecturer and supervisor at the Wits School of Arts' Digital Arts MA, and freelance lecturer at Newtown's Anti-Retroviral Theatre program and The South African School Of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance.
marcus neustetter has been developing projects addressing the relationship between art and technology. These take the form of mobile, installation, and web artworks tackling the translation of data through different online and offline platforms. In this process he has been exploring the digital and analogue ways of representing virtual experiences. Marcus Neustetter has exhibited and has been actively involved in developing opportunities and platforms for local digital art through projects in South Africa and Europe, these include ARS Electronica (Austria), Transmadiale.03 (Germany) and E-tester (Spain). As co-director of The Trinity Session and sanman (southern african new media art network) and The Gallery PREMISES, Marcus Neustetter is actively involved in developing cultural strategies through a range of projects. Currently he is consulting to UNESCO DigiArts Africa.
Printing supported by Lightworks Imaging (011) 6806800
opening: Sunday 16 May at 17:00 (gluehwein and hot chocolate will be served)
exhibition closes: Saturday 5 June
artists' talks: Saturday 22 May, 10:00
gallery hours
tuesday - friday 10:00 - 18:00
saturday 10:00 - 14:00
closed sundays/mondays
artspace - teresa lizamore
3 hetty avenue, fairland - Johannesburg
tel/fax: 011 678 1206, cell 082 651 4702