Hello World
Darren Banks, Luke Collins, Jonathan Horowitz, Seth Price, Corin Sworn, Stina Wirfelt
Embassy Gallery
Roxy Art House, 2 Roxburgh Pl, Edinburgh, EH8 9SU
Opening: 19.11.10 7-9pm
Exhibition Runs: 20.11.10 - 05.12.10 Thursday - Sunday 12-6pm
Hello World is a project in two parts taking as its starting point the emergence of the Internet over the past 20 years as one of the primary means of the dissemination of information.
Part 1:
The first part is a physical exhibition that will take place at the Embassy featuring the work of 6 artists. The work in the show will approach the way in which the Internet has influenced cultural production, in specific relation to practices of appropriation. The increasing digitalisation and distribution of media has spurred a new generation of artists to approach the image in a similar way to that of the supposed 'pictures generation', taking extant images and recontextualising them, augmenting meaning or offering new ways of seeing.
As part of this project we are distributing a font based on the paintings of John Baldessari. This is currently only in beta format with just capital letters but will appear in a fuller format next week.
CLICK TO DOWNLOAD BALDESSARI.TTF
Part 2:
The second part will be an experimental seminar with a new link being shared daily, through the sources listed below for the duration of the exhibition.
21.11.10
Teen Image by Seth Price
20.11.10
The meaning of open is obfuscated an interview between Geert Lovink and Andreas Hirsch
These links will also be shared through the Embassys presence on the following social networks
http://www.facebook.com/embassy.edinburgh
http://www.twitter.com/embassygallery
Notes:
Jonathan Horowitz's inclusion precedes his first ever solo exhibition in a UK public gallery at Dundee Contemporary Arts. Minimalist Works from the Holocaust Museum combines newly commissioned works alongside key works from the last two decades of the artist's practice. 27.11.10 to 20.02.11
http://www.dca.org.uk
Stina Wirfelt will have an exhibition of new works opening at 44 141 Gallery, Glasgow on the 03.12.10 7:30-9:30pm running until 18.12.10
http://www.swg3.tv
Darren Banks appears courtesy the artist and Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
Jonathan Horowitz appears courtesy the artist and Gavin Browns Enterprise New York
image:
Darren Banks
Clusterfuck, 2010 (detail from
Fade Away 2010)
Mixed Media Installation incorporating Art, House, Work 2005, Puppet Cinema 2005, Fade Away 2010, Introducing Delia Deetz 2010, Suppertime 2010, David and Medusa 2010, Clusterfuck 2010.
Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK
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