Physical Digital Opening!

[arts-somerville.livejournal.com]

"Physical Digital" at the Nave Gallery in Somerville
Rachel Gargiulo ◊ Ted Ollier ◊ John Pyper ◊ Liz Shepherd
Four artists interpreting ways of turning virtual information into physical
structures.
Exhibit dates: 11 Jul - 9 Aug 2009
Opening Reception 11 Jul • 6-9 pm

Free and open to the public.

Physical Digital features sculptures and works on paper by Rachel Gargiulo,
Ted Ollier, John Pyper, and Liz Shepherd, each of whom explores unique
aspects of the structure and configurations inherent in living digitally.

Today we find ourselves surrounded by data, meta-data, information,
references, keys, passwords, hyperlinks, applets, status bars,
transactions, and other digital ephemera. While these tools can provide a
bona fide relief this data is often an annoying companion that we are
forced to live with daily. A digital fog, sometimes navigable, sometimes
tiresomely perplexing has descended on our lives.

Gargiulo's "Chronicle I: The Pretenders" details her side of a
collaborative project where she produced a simulated love affair on the
internet. The online correspondence prior to their initial face to face
meeting is documented here. The consequences of this emotional simulation
are not yet evident.

Ollier <http://www.mindhuestudio.com/

> scrutinizes the information for
which we have developed blind-spots -- the barcode, the scaleless map, the
depiction of compression, the languages that run our computers, and
unintentional digital artifacts. His meticulously accurate depictions
create abstract forms that force us to reconsider what we thought we
already knew.

Pyper explores the fiction, appearance, and ephemera found in the
backgrounds of home video game console games. His objects and prints allow
us to approach objects sought after and navigated through for countless
hours in a new and material way.

Shepherd <http://www.lizshepherd.com/> has developed a visual vocabulary by
digitally drawing with discarded everyday illustrations. Her hushed totems
of travelers made from architectural drawings and her depictions of
hopeless characters acting out dangerous activities derives from digital
manipulations and contextualized images.

Comments

[soong.livejournal.com]

Where is the Nave Gallery?

[ron_newman]

soong: at Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, Powder House Blvd. at Curtis Street, just above Teele Square. See http://navegallery.org/ .

To the OP: this is an important piece of information that is missing from your post. Can you edit it in?