Climate Art: New Ways of Seeing Data
Dates:
Sat Oct 12, 2013 19:00 - Wed Nov 27, 2013
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
The IMC Lab + Gallery is pleased to present “Climate Art: New Ways of Seeing Data”, a show on the perspectives of data, climate, and art curated by Isabel Walcott Draves, Founder of LISA(Leaders in Software and Arthttp://softwareandart.com/).
This data visualization exhibit is part of the MARFA Dialogues/NY, a citywide examination of climate change science, environmental activism and artistic practice happening this October and November in New York City. Marfa Dialogues/NY features more than 20 Program Partners, including the IMC Lab + Gallery, and a spectrum of exhibitions, performance, and interdisciplinary discussions at the intersection of the arts and climate change.
Can the things we once thought of as infinite be quantified? If they are not infinite, when will they end?
This collection of works brings together a selection of pieces by established software artists Ursula Endlicher, Ben Fry, Aaron Koblin, Nathalie Miebach, Camille Seaman, and Karolina Sobecka, which attempt to measure the immeasurable: the directed gaze, existence, the sky, power.
Looked at through the lens of climate change, these works make us think about our interaction with the natural world, and whether something that used to seem impassive, impenetrable, and immovable -- the globe, the bedrock we stand on,
this Earth -- is in fact as fragile as a cloud.
If taking the measure of something means forming an opinion about it, the data driving these pieces make us think more carefully about the logistics of our environment. The exhibit invites the viewer to notice our ecosystem and consider our impact upon it as a real and quantifiable force.
"In an era of climate change and species extinction, it only makes sense that we try to document the minutiae of what remains. But it is just as logical to pause from time to time to consider what cannot be calculated". Akiko Busch, Author, The Incidental Steward: Reflections on Citizen Science
The exhibit opens October 12, 7-9 PM at the IMC Lab + Gallery and will remain on view through November 27.
This data visualization exhibit is part of the MARFA Dialogues/NY, a citywide examination of climate change science, environmental activism and artistic practice happening this October and November in New York City. Marfa Dialogues/NY features more than 20 Program Partners, including the IMC Lab + Gallery, and a spectrum of exhibitions, performance, and interdisciplinary discussions at the intersection of the arts and climate change.
Can the things we once thought of as infinite be quantified? If they are not infinite, when will they end?
This collection of works brings together a selection of pieces by established software artists Ursula Endlicher, Ben Fry, Aaron Koblin, Nathalie Miebach, Camille Seaman, and Karolina Sobecka, which attempt to measure the immeasurable: the directed gaze, existence, the sky, power.
Looked at through the lens of climate change, these works make us think about our interaction with the natural world, and whether something that used to seem impassive, impenetrable, and immovable -- the globe, the bedrock we stand on,
this Earth -- is in fact as fragile as a cloud.
If taking the measure of something means forming an opinion about it, the data driving these pieces make us think more carefully about the logistics of our environment. The exhibit invites the viewer to notice our ecosystem and consider our impact upon it as a real and quantifiable force.
"In an era of climate change and species extinction, it only makes sense that we try to document the minutiae of what remains. But it is just as logical to pause from time to time to consider what cannot be calculated". Akiko Busch, Author, The Incidental Steward: Reflections on Citizen Science
The exhibit opens October 12, 7-9 PM at the IMC Lab + Gallery and will remain on view through November 27.
Abstractions: The Films & Paintings of Antonio Ferrera
Dates:
Fri Sep 06, 2013 00:00 - Fri Oct 04, 2013
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
New York, New York – August 27, 2013 - The IMC Lab + Gallery is pleased to present “Abstractions: The Films & Paintings of Antonio Ferrera”, which will be on view from September 6-October 4, 2013. This will be Ferrera’s first solo exhibition and the premiere of his hand-painted film series Birth Cycles 1-4.
A painting is a...
transformation
force of nature
window
universe and cell
life and death
new and old...
Painting is endless. Painting is freedom. Painting is me being born all the time. -Antonio Ferrera
Antonio Ferrera has worked primarily as a documentary filmmaker, and in 2008 he won a Peabody Award for his film “The Gates” about the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude's monumental installation in New York’s Central Park. His films have been featured in museums around the country, including the National Gallery and LACMA.
For his first solo exhibition, Ferrera has created an immersive installation of projected, hand-painted films that he considers to be living paintings, flush with color and movement. His work is an indexical expression of his emotional and psychological states.
Birth Cycles 1-4 was created out of Ferrera’s desire to make an aesthetic journey through paint and color, movement and time. Using the now rarely seen medium of 35mm film, Ferrera repositions it as an object by painting directly onto the clear celluloid filmstrips. He then digitizes these paintings on high definition video to facilitate the large scale of projections and the immersive experience of installation. Ferrera will also be showing prints of select frames from his hand-painted films.
This progression between old and new media, painting, sculpture, film, and photography all occurs within this one body of work that withstands easy categorization. Ferrera’s influences include microbiology and quantum physics, which is evident in the intricate, cell-like structures of his imagery. By blending a scientific and a romantic sensibility, Ferrera finds a sublime form of abstraction through the interaction and exchange of energy and matter with color and beauty.
A painting is a...
transformation
force of nature
window
universe and cell
life and death
new and old...
Painting is endless. Painting is freedom. Painting is me being born all the time. -Antonio Ferrera
Antonio Ferrera has worked primarily as a documentary filmmaker, and in 2008 he won a Peabody Award for his film “The Gates” about the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude's monumental installation in New York’s Central Park. His films have been featured in museums around the country, including the National Gallery and LACMA.
For his first solo exhibition, Ferrera has created an immersive installation of projected, hand-painted films that he considers to be living paintings, flush with color and movement. His work is an indexical expression of his emotional and psychological states.
Birth Cycles 1-4 was created out of Ferrera’s desire to make an aesthetic journey through paint and color, movement and time. Using the now rarely seen medium of 35mm film, Ferrera repositions it as an object by painting directly onto the clear celluloid filmstrips. He then digitizes these paintings on high definition video to facilitate the large scale of projections and the immersive experience of installation. Ferrera will also be showing prints of select frames from his hand-painted films.
This progression between old and new media, painting, sculpture, film, and photography all occurs within this one body of work that withstands easy categorization. Ferrera’s influences include microbiology and quantum physics, which is evident in the intricate, cell-like structures of his imagery. By blending a scientific and a romantic sensibility, Ferrera finds a sublime form of abstraction through the interaction and exchange of energy and matter with color and beauty.
