Cyborg Manifesto...
dal 30/4/2001 al 8/7/2001
Segnalato da
S.E. Barnet
Mark Bennett
Doug Buis
Clare Cornell
Carlee Fernandez
Chris Finley
Ed Giardina
Ken Gonzales-Day
Jen Zen Grey
Jon Haddock
Evan Holloway
Susan Hornbeak-Ortiz
Mike Kelley
Amy Myers
Rubén Ortiz Torres
Naida Osline
Tony Oursler
Paul Paiement
Carrie Paterson
Alan Rath
H Shahani
George Stone
Chris Wilder
Jody Zellen
30/4/2001
Cyborg Manifesto...
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach
...or The Joy of Artifice. A group exhibition that looks at the interrelationship of technology, nature, and culture. The exhibition includes the works of 24 artists, mostly from California, presenting approximately 70 artworks ranging from installations, photo-based work, sculpture, and drawings.
...or The Joy of Artifice
Cyborg Manifesto, or The Joy of Artifice is a group exhibition that
looks at the interrelationship of technology, nature, and culture.
The exhibition includes the works of 24 artists, mostly from California
, presenting approximately 70 artworks ranging from installations,
photo-based work, sculpture, and drawings. Artists in the exhibition
include S.E. Barnet, Mark Bennett, Doug Buis, Clare Cornell, Carlee
Fernandez, Chris Finley, Ed Giardina, Ken Gonzales-Day, Jen Zen Grey,
Jon Haddock, Evan Holloway, Susan Hornbeak-Ortiz, Mike Kelley, Amy
Myers, Rubén Ortiz Torres, Naida Osline, Tony Oursler, Paul Paiement,
Carrie Paterson, Alan Rath, H Shahani, George Stone, Chris Wilder,
and Jody Zellen.
Theorist Donna Haraway coined a portion of the title, Cyborg Manifesto.
She wrote, the cyborg is resolutely committed to partiality, irony,
intimacy, and perversity. However when boundaries are being
transgressed and when fusions create new entities, then it is hard to
discern between the natural and artificial, especially in today’s
techno- logically mediated society. Cyborg Manifesto, or The Joy of
Artifice, is a celebration of these contradictions, complexities, and
confusions of the human condition.
The artists in this exhibit recognize that they live in a technology
driven society, and are indeed complicit with it. For the most part,
their work does not judge this condition, nor does it praise it, but
rather it attempts to be an entry point by which to enter such a world
with a perspective that is meant to remind us of ourselves. In this
light, many of the artists in the show use low-tech materials or use
traditional media in order to look at the high-tech. It is an approach
that is meant to bring a sense of vulnerability to a subject that for
many seems overwhelming.
The exhibit explores a territory that falls somewhere between a fear
of technology as a product of our own making, and a view towards
technology as a path towards progress--one, that for many, leads
to a kind of spiritual transcendence. In this light, the cyborg, a
hybrid of machine and organism, is used as a metaphor for navigating
the boundaries between what is science fiction and what is real in an
effort to reexamine body politics, gender, technology, and society.
Image:
Ken Gonzales-Day
Untitled #94,1999, 50 x 43
Ectacolor print
Laguna Art Museum
Laguna Beach, CA, USA United States of America