Chameleon [MCMLXXXIV]
Dates:
Thu Oct 15, 2015 18:00 - Sun Nov 01, 2015
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
In the age of social media, Art’s value is in flux. In a world of duplication and iteration, where a narcissistic society grows ever-more preoccupied with their own image, value itself seems an uncertain concept, let alone the value of an original artwork.
Chameleon is a new exhibition from artist duo OMTA that explores the value of works of art in the age of social media. Chameleon is a machine that generates a live algorithmic portrait of the viewer using information captured through cameras and recognition software. The resulting portrait is then for sale, but only for a very limited time. Once the piece goes up for sale, a countdown to the print’s destruction begins, scheduled to occur after five minutes if the viewer fails to purchase his or her portrait. As the minutes of the clock go by, the artwork’s price increases. No digital file is ever made. If purchased, the image is immediately printed as an exclusive one off artwork. And if the image is not purchased then all memory of it vanishes.
Chameleon is an interactive multimedia exhibition that resembles a narcissistic capitalist carnival with live feed projections, information gathering devices and economic transactions. Chameleon exposes the ways in which art-market mechanisms and surveillance mechanisms are part of the same system, one which exploits power relations in order to further its own gains. Through Chameleon, aesthetics are revealed as a political tool of the market.
Chameleon is a new exhibition from artist duo OMTA that explores the value of works of art in the age of social media. Chameleon is a machine that generates a live algorithmic portrait of the viewer using information captured through cameras and recognition software. The resulting portrait is then for sale, but only for a very limited time. Once the piece goes up for sale, a countdown to the print’s destruction begins, scheduled to occur after five minutes if the viewer fails to purchase his or her portrait. As the minutes of the clock go by, the artwork’s price increases. No digital file is ever made. If purchased, the image is immediately printed as an exclusive one off artwork. And if the image is not purchased then all memory of it vanishes.
Chameleon is an interactive multimedia exhibition that resembles a narcissistic capitalist carnival with live feed projections, information gathering devices and economic transactions. Chameleon exposes the ways in which art-market mechanisms and surveillance mechanisms are part of the same system, one which exploits power relations in order to further its own gains. Through Chameleon, aesthetics are revealed as a political tool of the market.
Co-Create Residency at IMC Lab + Gallery
Deadline:
Sun Feb 01, 2015 00:00
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
The IMC Lab + Gallery is a technology research lab and multimedia art gallery with a focus on creative software tools and interactive art forms. Our mission is to support artists and programmers by featuring their work in gallery exhibitions, funding technology research, providing collaborative studio facilities, and finding commercial applications for creative technologies.
CO-CREATE is IMC's artist in residency program that pairs artists with technologists. The program offers artists/designers and software developers/engineers the opportunity to collaborate and leverage each other’s skills in order to realize new works and explore new possibilities. The ideal applicant will propose a unique project in the form of a media involved installation, a new media artwork, software development or a commercial app. Residencies run for 6 months.
For the course of the 6-month residency, the IMC Lab + Gallery provides residents with a 24hr access studio space in Flatiron, Manhattan and access to the lab's resources, including computers, display systems, projectors and sound equipment to explore the physical realization of a collaborative project. The residency will culminate in an open studio/works-in-progress event and the possibility of a solo or group exhibition at the IMC Lab + Gallery showcasing the outcome of the 6 month collaborative residency.
By partnering artists with technologists, the IMC Lab + Gallery endeavors to facilitate the realization of creative projects that require a multitude of different skill sets. Three artists and/or technologists are selected on the basis of artistic and practical merit while curating complementary skill sets for a collaborative studio environment. Our goal is to promote the research and development of innovative technologies with applications in both fine art and commercial realms, with a particular interest in where the two intersect.
Co-Create artists are considered for future opportunities in group expositions and commercial collaborations with IMC Lab + Gallery and Studio IMC.
SUBMISSIONS
Please submit all applications to info@theimclab.com. Submission requirements are below.
• Contact information (Name, Address, E-mail, Phone Number)
• Resume/CV
• Link to Personal Site
• 250 Word Project Proposal
• Three examples of past work (JPEGs, MOV files, links to Vimeo/Youtube, AIFF and WAV sound files, websites)
CO-CREATE is IMC's artist in residency program that pairs artists with technologists. The program offers artists/designers and software developers/engineers the opportunity to collaborate and leverage each other’s skills in order to realize new works and explore new possibilities. The ideal applicant will propose a unique project in the form of a media involved installation, a new media artwork, software development or a commercial app. Residencies run for 6 months.
For the course of the 6-month residency, the IMC Lab + Gallery provides residents with a 24hr access studio space in Flatiron, Manhattan and access to the lab's resources, including computers, display systems, projectors and sound equipment to explore the physical realization of a collaborative project. The residency will culminate in an open studio/works-in-progress event and the possibility of a solo or group exhibition at the IMC Lab + Gallery showcasing the outcome of the 6 month collaborative residency.
By partnering artists with technologists, the IMC Lab + Gallery endeavors to facilitate the realization of creative projects that require a multitude of different skill sets. Three artists and/or technologists are selected on the basis of artistic and practical merit while curating complementary skill sets for a collaborative studio environment. Our goal is to promote the research and development of innovative technologies with applications in both fine art and commercial realms, with a particular interest in where the two intersect.
Co-Create artists are considered for future opportunities in group expositions and commercial collaborations with IMC Lab + Gallery and Studio IMC.
SUBMISSIONS
Please submit all applications to info@theimclab.com. Submission requirements are below.
• Contact information (Name, Address, E-mail, Phone Number)
• Resume/CV
• Link to Personal Site
• 250 Word Project Proposal
• Three examples of past work (JPEGs, MOV files, links to Vimeo/Youtube, AIFF and WAV sound files, websites)
