Warehouse 508
508 1st st. northwest Albequerque, NM 87012
September 18th, 2012 - October 15th, 2012
In a world of ubiquitous computing, information has been reduced to data, with little regard to its physical reality. void object() is an intentional return to physicality and experience, rendering the otherwise invisible information into tactile objects.
The artists represented are second year graduate students from the Art and Technology Studies, Sculpture, and Sound Departments at the School of the Art Insitute Chicago. As a group, we work in a variety of media, but each of us addresses the implications of technological change in social, physical, and environmental realms. Equally inspired and critical, we search to come to terms with the rapid changes involved with the near instantaneous dispersal of information. What are the consequences of reducing our experiences to pixels and bytes? Is there a loss that comes with each potential? Must we leave behind that physical world to participate in the virtual?
Perhaps at one point, an exhibition involving data would be relevant only to computer scientists and information technicians - the ubernerds of the early internet age. However, that is no longer the case. We all face the reality of telepresent communication, books and music becoming digital files, networked identities -- with ideas trumping objects. Presented during the time of the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), this exhibition actively engages in a broader conversation about the negotiation between technology and the physical world.