high-tech low-tech

curated by lny at space II III IV

Opening on September 27, 2007, Space II III IV is pleased to present the new exhibition "Hi Tech low Tech: Up-to-date Contemporary Art", curated by recent Mason Gross BFA graduate Lenny Correa. The opening reception will include performances by local New Brunswick bands Tin Kitchen and Snake Vision as well as a how-to workshop on circuit bending and D-I-Y electronic modification. This event is free and open to the public.

The exhibit is comprised of fourteen local and international young artists whose mediums and modes of creation reflect today's technology embedded culture. The results range from videos made with security camera footage to the assimilation of an internet persona in lurid amorous narrative acted out across social networking websites. This exhibition is continued by a mass email containing links to artists' blogs, websites and internet art, where the work takes up new multifaceted implications and continues to be realized. This act of openness between the artist, the public and the creation process creates a new relationship between the gallery (as the central hub from which art is transmitted) and the public. It also questions the binary relationship between physical and virtual artwork, which in itself is a burgeoning concern of our time.

All the work presented in this show looks forward to the future of art and questions its now antiquated idea of what is modern. The hackneyed and inflexible idea of painting and sculpture being the only hallmarks of art is no longer valid in a world where wars are fought via computer screens (http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/ff_estonia ) where presidential debates are held online (http://www.youtube.com/debates ) and where the idea of place and time can be so easily consumed. (http://maps.google.com/maps?tab=wl&hl=en ).This group show is a declaration or independence from these overarching institutionalized ideas and a showcase for truly new contemporary art that is itself at the verge of being canonized and completely assimilated.

Lenny Correa.


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The following are links to the artists' various Internet sites where some of the work shown at the exhibit can be viewed:

Amanda Barrett:
http://www.amandabarrett.net/
http://www.asianeuro.com/
http://rutgers.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8809516&ref=ts
http://www.myspace.com/mandameanders

Reid Bingham:
http://whereheremeetsthere.blogspot.com/
http://rutgers.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8803407&ref=ts

Natalie McKeever:
http://www.geocities.com/bowtie_is_really_a_camera/
http://rutgers.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8807280&ref=ts

Alexander Conner:
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~aconner/

Jacki Sulley:
http://blexxings.blogspot.com/
http://art.rutgers.edu/~sullivan/

http://www.myspace.com/jackisulley

Doug O'Neil:
http://www.dougoneil.com/

Marissa Paternoster:
http://forgottengrin.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/noun
http://www.myspace.com/screamingfemales

Sociotree:
http://www.sociotree.com/
http://www.myspace.com/zomziw

Jen Park:
http://k-nekt----ic.blogspot.com/

Jamie Bruno:
http://rutgers.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8831606&ref=ts

Elizabeth Lynch:
http://courtlandtlanddotcom.blogspot.com/

Tin Kitchen:
http://www.myspace.com/tinkitchen

Snake Vision:
http://myspace.com/snakevision

Courtlandtlanddotcom:
http://courtlandtlanddotcom.blogspot.com/

http://www.myspace.com/courtlandtland

Lenny Correa:
http://lnylnylny.blogspot.com/
http://rutgers.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8823568

Frank Castro:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=136780814
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=6367151