Details of a forthcoming exhibition I’m part of in New York.

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Notes on a New Nature is a physical manifestation of an ongoing research project conducted by artist, writer, and curator Nicholas O’Brien. The research critically examines and compares the relationships that contemporary artists working with digital media have to practices started in Modernist Painting – specifically the pursuit of capturing the virtual qualities of what constitutes a landscape. How does an artist depict a space faithfully enough to show its affect on a subject? Can art capture the space between the viewer and the horizon, and where does that horizon reside now that we can digitally circumnavigate the globe? Can the digital reconcile the physical?

One way that we know how to understand the natural is through the domestic spaces of our daily lives. The interior shelter allows for reflection on what is “outside,” and as a result positions civilization away from the natural. However, as various digital and virtual landscape permeate the domestic space, our notion of what constitutes the natural has become more complicated than a simple inside/outside dichotomy. We use all forms of digital and analog technologies to simulate the natural world daily, and artists in this show point to how these tools affect the ways in which the “realness” of the natural is no longer as simple as locating it outside your window.

This newfound complication highlights the central argument of Notes on a New Nature: our varied notion of what constitutes the natural is shaped by technology, which is a narrative that can be traced all the way back to the advent of agriculture and the dawn of civilization. Through employment of various digital approaches, artists in this exhibition reference this long-standing problem we face when attempting to represent landscape and acknowledge the ways in which digital technology has forever changed our understanding of nature.

Participating artists include: Duncan Alexander, Mark Beasley, Chris Collins, Petra Cortright, Theo Darst, Marjolijn Dijkman, Paul Flannery, Joe Hamilton (aka Hypergeography), Jan Robert Leegte, Sara Ludy, Garrett Lynch, Michael Ray-Vaughn, Sherwin Rivera Tibayan, Nicolas Sassoon, Rick Silva, Pascual Sisto, Kate Steciw, Wes W Wilson, and Krist Wood.

Gallery site:
http://319scholes.org/nov-10-%E2%80%93-nov-20-2011-notes-on-a-new-nature/

Facebook event page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=269943109714089

319 Scholes Brooklyn, NY
November 10 – November 20, 2011
Opening: November 10, 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Gallery hours: Friday and Saturday, 2:00pm – 6:00pm and by appointment

Sandwich Board - Miniature Replica will be exhibited as part of the Vending Machine installation at Galleria Perela and Serra dei Giardini at the 54th Venice Biennale from the 14th-30th of September 2011.

I’ll be presenting my Second Life / mixed reality work at Dorkbot Cardiff on the 14th of July (from 6:30) in Milgi’s top floor room, 213 City Road, Cardiff CF243JD. Come along if your nearby, the line up promises to be good.

I’ll be exhibiting some works at an exhibition opening in Cardiff on the 19th of May 2011. If your in the area please drop by, full details below.

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DecemberLab presents

Being

“Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Da-sein, is the nobody to whom every da-sein has already surrendered itself, in its being-among-the-other.”

Being and Time. Martin Heidegger.

with:
Garrett Lynch
Daniel Jeczalik
Jonathan Thomas
Freeman & Fine
Inga Burrows
Henrik Hendinge
Liam O’Conner

DecemberLab, organisers of VerticalCinema have curated a group show loosely themed upon the idea of ‘Being’, collating a cross-section of artists working in moving image (and related fields) that deal implicitly with the terminology or are evident within the taxonomy, whether this be a subjective or non-subject context, Da-sein, or an objective, material/structural realisation of ‘a being’, the curated space then observing any topology due to dialogic relations.

You are invited for a private view and drinks at what used to known as ‘The Wardrobe’ in High St Arcade, Cardiff from 7pm onwards on Thursday 19th May. Feel free to bring a bottle.

The Wardrobe
High St Arcade, Cardiff

20th – 28th May
10a.m – 5p.m

Opening Night 19th May
7p.m – 10p.m

I will be performing Trav—erse at Furtherfield Gallery (formerly HTTP Gallery) in London on the 25th of February 6.30-9pm. The performance is part of the UK launch of the publication REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory. Full details of the event are available here. If you’re in London, please come along and say hi.