Technology. You can’t avoid it. We at Dazed can't help but get excited by artists playing with tech-infused concepts, methods and materials. To coincide with Lauren Cornell and Ryan Trecartin’s New Museum Triennial Surround Audience, it felt like time to visit the tech-infused art symposiums, biennials, and exhibitions on and offline that are getting us hot over our phablets this week.
MARCO BRAMBILLA AT MCCABE FINE ART
Brambilla’s collage video works are not normally seen within a tech context – but these incredible moving image pieces could only have emerged from digital processes. His latest work Apollo (made with archives from NASA) was originally played across the billboards of Times Square earlier this month. The multi screen video installation of the rocket lift off gets a proper gallery outing at Stockholm space McCabe Fine Art.
With a Wikipedia style release defining Fake as everything from a 80s synthpop band to a new Mac OS X browser, this exhibition at Exile has over 25 artists and includes work from Anonymous, Kazuko Miyamoto and Hanne Lippard. Its hard to imagine the full content of this über group show, but there’s bound to be some tech references.
Bitforms is presenting artist Monghan’s debut show in NYC opening on the 22nd. Escape Pod is an exhibition comprising of video installation and computer collage prints, inspired by Greek and Nordic mythology. The result is a future pop expression of “luxury riot” consumer culture, a giant photographic take on a fictionalised Starbucks, and USB stick Faberge eggs.
Runs until May 3
Jonathan Monaghan, Still from “Escape Pod”, 2012via bitforms.com
X IS Y AT SANDY BROWN
West Berlin space Sandy Brown has brought together some brilliant artists (who happen to be all women) for this show, including Juliette Bonneviot, Kirsten Pieroth, Anna Uddenberg and Daphne Ahlers, for a fusion of feminism and emerging visual language.
Michael Wolf, “Paris Street View # 009”, Digital Conditions, 2015via kunstverein-hannover.de
EMILY JONES AT COSMOS CARL
Online space Cosmos Carl’s is a South East London hub and residency space that provides a distribution space online for artists. Shows come and go fast up here. The latest project is a hyperlink from artist Emily Jones (who has been profiled on Rhizome and shown at Lima Zulu) on the draining of the Mesopotamian marshes of Iraq. Chew on that.
Emily Jones, “The Draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes of Iraq”, 2015via emilyjones.info
The grown up big online sibling to the influential Bubblebyte.org is starting an amazing archive of commissioned art projects and texts. The latest project is Heather Philipson’s Serious Traction, a beat driven, text video work about the nerves and horror of having a vaginal exam. Two words you don't use often in an art preview.
Heather Philipson, Homepage of the Serious Traction online project, 2015via serioustraction.otdac.org
