Past Exhibitions
LINDSAY HOWARD is a curator and researcher based in New York. She is the Curatorial Director of 319 Scholes, a Brooklyn gallery dedicated to promoting works at the intersection of art and technology. Howard has lectured at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and University of Cincinnati. Her exhibitions have been featured in ARTINFO, TechCrunch, Fast Company, Creators Project, Rhizome, L Magazine, DIS Magazine, Hyperallergic, and her exhibition "DUMP.FM IRL" was selected by Art Fag City as one of the 10 Best Exhibitions of 2010. She is...
April 2012
C.R.E.A.M. Curated by Lindsay Howard
C.R.E.A.M. showcases the work of artists who are politically engaged in open source art & technology while using their creative practice to address issues related to the monetization of net-based work.
DENA BEARD is a Curatorial Assistant at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA). For the MATRIX program at BAM/PFA she assists with the production of site-specific projects by national and international emerging artists, including Desirée Holman, Ahmet Ogut, Omer Fast, Futurefarmers, Brent Green, Martha Colburn, Mario Garcia Torres, Trevor Paglen, Tomas Saraceno, and Tris Vonna-Michell, among others. Independently, she curated the Lending Library exhibition series in Oakland and San Francisco, and Taking Up Room on the...
March 2012
Inverse Internet Operating Manual Curated by Dena Beard
Contemporary art is often engaged in reverting everyday things to raw source material, re-engineering them so that they work, but against their 'appropriate' function. Outside of the art world this practice is called kludging, in Brazil, it’s gambiologia, in India, jugaad--it encompasses many methods of actively responding to a scarcity of physical or cultural resources. Inverse Internet Operating Manual considers tactical alternatives to the normative functioning of the Internet, gathering together a diverse set of artists who cannibalize the convoluted, and often compromised, digital frameworks for information consumption.Image: Kristina Lee Podesva from This is a Vehicle, 2011; thisisavehicle.com; courtesy of the artist.
Karen Archey is an art critic and curator based in New York. She acts as the Editor-at-Large of Rhizome at the New Museum and the Curatorial Director of Stadium, a gallery in New York's Chelsea arts district dedicated to the support of internet-aware art. Archey's writing has appeared in Art-Agenda, Spike Art Quarterly, Modern Painters, Kaleidoscope, Flash Art International, i-D, MAP Magazine (UK), and ARTINFO, among other publications. In addition to her freelance work, Archey writes the bimonthly column on post-emerging Western art “Moving...
February 2012
Can't Touch This Curated by Karen Archey
"Can’t Touch This" brings together works that fold together real and virtual space, questioning whether the contemporary aesthetic experience can exist solely in real life or online, and suggesting that the real and virtual are at present inextricably connected.
JEFF THOMPSON received his BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and his MFA from Rutgers University. He is currently Assistant Professor of New Genres and Digital Arts at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Thompson has exhibited and performed his work internationally, most recently at SITE Santa Fe, Jersey City Museum, Weisman Art Museum, Hunter College, White Box Gallery, and Museo Arte Contemporaneo in Argentina. Thompson was awarded the Van Lier Fellowship from Harvestworks in 2008 and a commission from Dispatx, an...
January 2012
10000 Pixels Curated by Jeff Thompson
For "10,000 Pixels", artists were asked to create three artworks using a 10,000-pixel “allowance”. The extremely low resolution becomes an aesthetic and conceptual challenge, resulting in ultra-low-resolution photographs, carefully crafted digital abstractions, blocky representations of physical objects similar to early Atari and NES sprites, or other unexpected solutions.
ANDREW VENELL is a multimedia artist living in San Francisco, California. His video and new media works have been exhibited in museums and festivals around the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Museo de las Ciencias in Valencia, Spain, and as part of CologneOFF VI, the Cologne International Videoart Festival. He has a B.A. in Art Semiotics from Brown University and an M.F.A. in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute.
December 2011
Dériving An Imaginary City: Virtual Psychogeographies
Curated by Andrew Venell
Branching out from Guy Debord's definition of "psychogeography" as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment...on the emotions and behavior of individuals," this exhibition looks at the use of digital tools in mapping the interplay between psychological states and urban environments. The participating artists are all using sophisticated technologies, from biofeedback to GPS, as a way to augment the experience of their surroundings, to record or map their passage through both physical and mental spaces.
SARAH KLEIN is a San Francisco Bay Area artist whose own practice includes animation. Klein uses paper cutouts and stop-motion techniques to create humorous and often dark narratives on domestic life and related themes. She has screened and exhibited her work widely at an international selection of venues including General Public in Berlin, Exit Art in New York, The Glasshouse in Tel Aviv and the Mill Valley Film Festival. Among her many honors are residencies at the International Animated Film School in Cakovec, Croatia, the Djerassi Resident...
November 2011