#404 Not Found
Curated by Miguel Cortez from
Antena
Opening Friday August 30, 2013 from
6pm-10pm
Show runs until September 8th
"Skin has become inadequate in
interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane
of existence." - Nam June Paik
The 404 Not Found is an HTTP web error
message indicating that the client was able to communicate with the
server, but the server could not find what was requested. Humans created
this entity called the Internet which has no physicality but it is a
collective forum for our ideas, comments and cat videos. This show is
about artists using technology as an art form, from video, web, animated
GIFS, social networks, virtual reality, etc.
Artist Bios:
Channel TWo (CH2)
Adam Trowbridge (b 1972) and Jessica Westbrook (b 1974)
collaborate as Channel TWo (CH2), a studio/research construct focused on
mixed reality, media, design, development, and distribution, authorized
formats + unauthorized ideas, systems of control + radical
togetherness. Channel TWo is loosely aligned with the concept of
over-identification, Slavoj Žižek’s description of a tactic intended to
reveal the hidden nature of dominant ideologies -- not by pointing to
them but by becoming extreme forms of them. CH2 projects intersect
joyful/play-oriented aesthetic experiences and user interfaces with
challenging critical undercurrents. CH2's most recent projects involve
interactive landscapes/game environments, and computer viruses. In 2012
CH2 was awarded a Rhizome Commission, a Turbulence Commission in 2011,
and a Terminal Commission in 2009 for projects involving education,
systems design, and net art. In addition to exhibitions and commissions,
CH2 contributes to panels, platforms, publications, and collaborative
programs involving new media, and social practices. Both Trowbridge and
Westbrook are Assistant Professors at the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, where they teach courses in the Department of Contemporary
Practices and the Department of Art and Technology Studies. Trowbridge
received an MFA in Electronic Visualization from the University of
Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL (2008). Westbrook received an MFA in
Photography from Temple University's Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia,
PA (1998).
http://www.onchanneltwo.com/
Jeff Kolar is an audio artist working in
Chicago, USA. His work, described as "speaker-shredding" (Half Letter
Press) and "wonderfully strange" (John Corbett), includes cross-platform
collaboration, low-powered radio, and live performance. Jeff is a
free103point9 Transmission Artist, and also the director of Radius, an
experimental radio broadcast platform.
His work has been released on Panospria (Canada), HAK
Lo-Fi Record (France), free103point9 (USA), and has appeared in
compilations by Furthernoise.org (Australia) and Sonic Circuits (USA).
His video work was published in the DVD journal ASPECT: The Chronicle of
New Media Art. He presents at festivals, radio programs, exhibitions,
and performance venues which recently include GLI.TC/H, KUNSTRADIO, and
The Kitchen; and in Argentina, Mexico, and the Netherlands, among others
internationally.
http://www.jeffkolar.us/
Emilie Gervais
Girl living the life, living the internet and all. If i lose this current skin, it's scary like #404voidBB.
http://emiliegervais.com/
Jon Satrom is a
constructive deconstructivist, a creative problematizer, a
collaborative agitator and a systems spelunker. His realtime A/V
performances, experimental video-works, net.art and artware have been
consumed within various space-times across multiple planes. Satrom
co-founded the r4wb1t5! microFestival framework and the
GLI.TC/H
conference/festival/gathering. He has taught and developed courses in
the new-media path of the Department of Film Video New Media Animation
at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and directs the
Chicago-based boutique digital studio studiothread. Sharing, bringing
folks together, creative problem creating and investigating structures
though failure, kludges, and glitches fuel his endeavors.
http://jonsatrom.com
Rob Ray
examines technology in public/outdoor spaces and creates interactive
public artworks, experimental videos and sound compositions. His
interactive work, GET LOST! was commissioned by the Abandon Normal
Devices Festival in Manchester, UK and has exhibited at Conflux 2012 in
New York and the Tracing Mobility festival in Berlin, Germany. His video
game disguised as ATM, Bucky's Animal Spirit, was selected for the
art.tech exhibition at The Lab (San Francisco), and the (re)load
exhibition at Antena (Chicago).
Rob also collaborates with Jason Soliday and Jon Satrom as a
member of the Chicago-based circuit-bent multimedia noise trio I Love
Presets. I Love Presets has performed at the GLI.TC/H 2011 and 2012
festivals, The SAIC's Conversations at the Edge series and the Chicago
Underground Film Festival.
From 1999 to 2008, Rob was founding curator of the DEADTECH
electronic arts center in Chicago, IL, USA. DEADTECH's unique curatorial
vision, residency facilities, workshop facilities and exhibition space
were custom created to cater to the specific needs of the electronic
artist and performer. DEADTECH exhibited artists from across the globe
including the Beige Programming Ensemble, Institute for Applied
Autonomy, Trevor Paglen, Norman White, Kevin Drumm, T.V. Pow and
Kazuyuki K. Null. In 2010, Rob received his MFA in Electronic Arts from
Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.
http://robray.net/
Patrick Lichty is a
technologically-based media artist, writer, independent curator,
co-founder of the performance art group Second Front, animator for the
activist group, The Yes Men, and Executive Editor of Intelligent Agent
Magazine. He began showing technological media art in 1989, and deals
with works and writing that explore the social relations between us and
media. Venues in which Lichty has been involved with solo and
collaborative works include the Whitney & Turin Biennials, Maribor
Triennial, Performa Performance Biennial, Ars Electronica, and the
International Symposium on the Electronic Arts (ISEA). He is also an
Assistant Professor of Interactive Arts & Media at
Columbia College Chicago.
http://patricklichty.com/
Jake Myers is a
Chicago-based artist, athlete and educator. "His work gratuitously
merges art and sports, homoeroticism and hypermasculinity, and heroism
and existential suffering." (M. Devlin)
http://jakemyers.us
Amelia Winger-Bearskin
works with modeling (as defined by agent based computer programming) as
a conceptual prompt in her performance work, she has developed a
concept of Open Source Performance Art (OSPA), she has spoken about OSPA
at various academic conferences and performance festivals since 2010.
She has been a solo performer at numerous international performance
festivals since 2008 in cities not limited to: Beijing, China, Manila,
Philippines, Seoul, South Korea, Sao Paulo, Brazil, New York NY and
Washington, DC. She participated in the 2012 Gwangju Biennial as a
performance artist and recently returned from an artist residency at the
University of Tasmania in Australia.
http://www.studioamelia.com/
Miguel Cortez is an artist/curator living in
Chicago and born in Guanajuato, Mexico. He has studied filmmaking at
Columbia College and art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
He currently runs Antena, an alternative art space located in Chicago's
Pilsen neighborhood. His artwork has been shown at Gallery 414 in Fort
Worth, Texas, at the Krannert Museum and at the National Museum of
Mexican Art in Chicago. Other shows included exhibits in Dallas at
Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Glass Curtain Gallery and at VU Space in
Melbourne, Australia.
http://www.mcortez.com/
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