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15/2/2000

GARY SIMMONS: Wake

Dia Art Foundation, New York

A Project for the Web at Dia Center for the Arts.

On February 16, 2000, Gary Simmons will launch a project for the world wide web, entitled Wake, the twelfth in Dia's series of artists' projects for the web. The address for the project is http://www.diacenter.org/simmons.

For Wake, his first project for the web, Gary Simmons has photographed empty ballrooms and other dance spaces redolent of an earlier era. As the viewer moves the mouse over the screen, image fragments appear then quickly fade, making it impossible to view any of his nine haunting scenes in its entirety and at one time. Mediated by a soundtrack comprised of the humming of old but well-known songs that are still popular favorites, these sites seem generated as much by involuntary memory as by technical intervention. As with Simmons' earlier work, including his chalk drawings and more recently his photographs of pedagogical spaces, absence and the ephemeral are as palpably charged as what is present and lasting.

Previous projects which can still be visited on Dia's website include Francis Alÿs' The Thief, Arturo Herrera's Almost Home, Diller + Scofidio's Refresh, Kristin Lucas's Between a Rock and a Hard Drive, Claude Closky's Do you want love or lust?, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.'s Prometheus Bound, Cheryl Donegan's Studio Visit, and Molissa Fenley's Latitudes.

Dia Center for the Arts
New York City
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