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2012 Events:
Flux Death Match: The New Aesthetic
Check out Flux Death Match May 30 at the Flux Factory: The New Aesthetic with Greg Borenstein; Molly W.Steenson; Kyle McDonald; Carla Gannis @ http://www.fluxfactory.org/events/flux-death-match-the-new-aesthetic/
and on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/289962127762015/
Current at Edelman curated by Katarina Wong
Today’s facial recognition technology is making strides in distinguishing, literally, a face in the crowd. Its algorithms are built into many sites and apps, proving to be a helpful tool in managing images of friends and family. However, it also raises questions about trust, identity and intrusion, for example, when our own images appear without our permission on someone else’s Facebook page.
Artist Carla Gannis explores these issues in The Non-Facial Recognition Project, her experiment in “facial recognition subversion.” Gannis asked her Twitter network to send her their profile photos with the expressed purpose of “scrambling” the images and in effect making new identities unrecognizable to either the donors or to the technology. Through this project, participants place their likenesses and their identities in her hands, much like the trust we place every day in the technology itself. To read more, download the full brochure here.
Installation Images:
Julia Kaganskiy editor of The Creators Project has put together another series of responses to the #NewAesthetic featuring posts by Carla Gannis, Jamie Zigelbaum & Marcelo Coelho, Hrag Vartanian, Rahel Aima, and Madeline Ashby http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/blog/the-new-aesthetic-revisited-the-debate-continues”
A CODE FOR THE NUMBERS TO COME
By Carla Gannis
Momenta Art Spring Benefit 4.25.2012
Beauty Debate 3.3.2012
2011 Events:
SOFTWAREANDART
THIS SALON IS HOSTED BY LISA CO-FOUNDER ERIK SANNER
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Article by Carla Gannis And Peter Patchen on Postmaster’s Exhibition “Play Station” & “BYOB” : http://artcritical.com/2011/12/16/play-station/
http://werefriendsonandimfollowingyou.blogspot.com/
GEO-LOCO: The Re-Imagined Landscape
curated by Henry G. Sanchez
November 5 – November 20, 2011
Opening reception: Saturday, Nov. 5, 7-10pm
Closing reception: Saturday, Nov. 20, 7-10pm
@ OUTPOST RESOURCES
1665 Norman Street
Ridgewood, NY 11385
http://www.outpostedit.org/ info@outpostedit.org
ph# 718-599-2385 fx# 718-679-9687
Directions: Take the L train to Halsey stop. Walk east along Wyckoff Ave. Take left and walk north on Norman. Or take M train to Myrtle/ Wyckoff stop. Walk east along Wyckoff Ave. Take left and walk north on Norman Ave.
For Immediate Release:
GEO-LOCO|The Re-Imagined Landscape presents five artists who practice digital media to explore the traditional theme of landscape. Each artist investigates different perspectives and conceptual approaches to achieve their idiosyncratic vision. The artists’ employ concepts such as the “desired” landscape, the simulacra, nostalgia, political/historical/environmental implications, and romantic antecedents.
This exhibition qualitatively differs from other art shows that exploit the aesthetic practices of augmented reality or digitized/techno-graphic environments, i-Phone apps and programs. Despite the egalitarian properties of those applications this exhibition avoids a limited mediation of a real, unreal or imagined environment.
The artists of GEO-LOCO: The Re-Imagined Landscape seek to fulfill a deeper
relationship and a wider definition of contemporary “landscape art” through their personal, romantic and political experiences while manipulating new media and employing technological and digital means.
Find & Combine
Elisabeth Condon, Judith Simonian, Amy Hill, Mary Ann Strandell, Carla Gannis and Linda Griggs
Abrazo Interno Gallery
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Education Center
107 Suffolk St, 2nd Floor 917.496.7058
OPENING RECEPTION: Wed, Sep 7, 6-8 pm
GALLERY TALK: Thu, Sep 15, 8pm
Show Dates: Sep 3rd – Sep 15th
The show brings together a group of artists who research, source, and juxtapose images. While it is safe to say most artists working with an element of representation do “find and combine” in some form or another, the interest here is how varied the results can be, in this case, ranging from lenticular prints, to abstractions based on Chinese scrolls to Netherlandish Renaissance tattooed hipsters, to digital prints processed entirely through the computer.
The show reminds us that such visual hunting and gathering is an important part of the creative process for artists, particularly now as use of images from newspapers, the internet or art history fall under new copyright and intellectual propers laws that threaten their process.
Panel discussion
“Mediated behavior in art and society”
A discussion of media system’s and technologies,
their relationship to behavior and the artistic process,
and an exploration of the Utopian and Dystopian
possibilities they inspire.
Sunday, August 21st, 3pm
Brydcliffe Kleinert/James arts Center
34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, N.Y.
With panelists/artists participating in the current exhibition THE MEDIUM AND THE MESSAGE:
Carla Gannis
Peter Patchen
Michael Rees
Moderator: Jimi Billingsley
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An interview by Daniel Durning with me about my work @Pulse Art Fair Spring 2011.
Pulse 2011: Carla Gannis & Catherine Balduc
artonair.org
Buzz from the floor of the 2011 NYC Art Fair Week, recorded Live at the PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, artist Gannis discusses art in the age of mechanical reproduction, and Balduc discusses her series
