A new group exhibition entitled Art and Electronic Media is opening tomorrow 16 June 2009 at the bitforms gallery in New York. It feature work from Laurie Anderson, Jim Campbell, Tim Hawkinson, Michael Joaquin Grey, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Robert Lazzarini, Golan Levin, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Mark Napier, Manfred Mohr, Tony Oursler, Jennifer Steinkamp, Lillian Schwartz and myself. I’m showing Process 8 (Image 2), a print from 2006. The show was curated in concert with the recently published Art and Electronic Media by Edward Shanken (Phaidon, 2009.)

I’m showing work in a group show at the BANK gallery in Los Angeles from 21 Feb – 28 Mar 2009. The opening is 21 Feb from 6-8pm. I’m showing a new software work (pictured above) and prints from the Tissue series. The press release reads:

BANK is pleased to announce the group exhibition, “I’ll be your mirror,” showcasing a selection of artists from the gallery’s program. Although divergent in their practices, there are two distinct themes that emerge amongst the seven artists exhibiting. C.E.B. Reas, Ann Diener, Fran Siegel, and Enrique Castrejon, take the formal aspects of drawing as a point of departure for collage, installation and new media, whereas concepts stemming from advertising, consumerism and excess are seen in the works of Kim Schoen, Osman Khan and Bari Ziperstein.

This is BANK’s final exhibition prior to transitioning to a Project Space set to launch in fall of ‘09.

Marius Watz and I have an upcoming exhibition at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts from 7 Feb – 19 April 2009. The opening is 7 Feb from 5:30-8:30pm. This will be the first time Marius and I are exhibiting together after and I’m sincerely looking forward to it. I’ll be showing work from my Process/Form solo show at the bitforms gallery nyc in spring 2008. This new exhibition is in association with the Code, Form, Space Symposium at Carnegie Mellon University 3-7 Feb 2009. The image above is a crop of Process 18 (Object 1), photo by Marius Watz.

Process 16 is on exhibition at the University of California, Irvine Beall Center from January 9 – March 14, 2009 as a part of the Scalable Relations exhibition:

Scalable Relations is a series of networked exhibitions that present media artworks by faculty of the UC Digital Arts Research Network (DARnet) across UC campuses from January 9 throughout March, 2009. The exhibition, curated by Christiane Paul (Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art), takes place at the Beall Center for Art + Technology at UC Irvine; the gallery@CalIT2 at UCSD; California NanoSystems Institute CN(S)I at UCLA; as well as Media Arts and Technology (MAT) at UCSB. Scalable Relations brings together works that explore digital media’s capability of representing a growing amount of data in constantly evolving relations. Addressing a range of issues, the projects in Scalable Relations illustrate the complexities and shifting contexts of today’s information society.

My colleagues Sheldon Brown, George Legrady and Angus Forbes, Rebeca Mendez, Greg Niemeyer, and Warren Sack also have works on display.

With Tag<> at the helm, the Protean Image Machine continued its tour. The project landed at MediaRuimte in Brussels from 20 – 29 Nov 2008 for the Cimatics Festival for Live Audio Visual Art & VJ-ing. The installation was well documented by Marc Wathieu.

A photography studio-residence currently being designed by davidclovers is the subject of a collaborative research between davidclovers and myself. 07 MASSES explores the specific impact of luminosity and texture on mass and massiveness through a series of scaled prototypes. I developed software that was used to generate the pattern embedded in the surface of the structure. The model, developed by davidclovers in summer 2008, is currently on exhibition at Artist Space in New York in the show Matters of Sensation. The show runs from 25 Sep to 22 Nov 2008.

TI will be shown at the The 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale which takes place at the Seoul Museum of Art. The exhibition is open from 12 September to 5 November 2008. I’m very honored to be showing my work with Julien Maire, Anish Kapoor, Olafur Eliasson, and many other excellent artists. There’s more information on the Media_City Seoul website.

The Tissue Collection, created in collaboration with 1 of 1 Studio, will be exhibited at C.STEM in Turin, Italy from 19 to 27 September, 2008. The exhibition takes place at the Ex-Chiesa Metodista (via Lagrange 13, 10122 Torino.) The event is conceived and curated by Associazione Culturale e di Ricerca NADA. They write:

The festival is focusing on creative potential of Computational Design: a viewpoint and a working hypothesis where computational generative strategies become a vital tool to connect the new potential of digital fabrication to an ever growing demand for mass customized design objects.

Other exhibition participants include Ammar Eloueini, Ebru Kurbak and Mahir Yavuz, Adrian Bowyer, Nervous System, MOS, Marc Fornes, Fluid Forms, and Susanne Stauch. There’s more information at the C.STEM website.

The Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria has curated the “Digital Senses” exhibition that runs from 18 April to 11 May at the Center for Contemporary Art in Kiev. My Tissue software is a part of the exhibition. The curatorial statement by Manuela Pfaffenberger and Gerfried Stocker is posted on the exhibition website.

When Tissue was shown at the Ars Electronica center in 2003 (see image above) the software used a unique interface called the Responsive Window, built by Joe Paradiso of the MIT Media Lab. The Responsive Window locates the position of taps and knocks on a glass surface. The Tissue software was projected onto the glass and responded to the input by changing its form and motion.

Process 5 is included in the “Holy Fire, Art in the Digital Age” exhibition in Brussels. The show, curated by Yves Bernard and Domenico Quaranta, runs from 18 to 30 April 2008 at the iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology. It is described as:

… a collective exhibition featuring a unique panel of digital artworks created in the last years by internationally known new media artists, and coming from galleries and collections from around the world (USA, Europe, Russia). Holy Fire is an attempt to explore how new media art, bypassing all the stereotypes connected with its presumed immateriality and difficulties of maintenance, was able to enter the art market.

The organizers make a clear statement about their views of the current status of what is often referred to as media art:

The artworks in Holy Fire are not new media art, but simply art of our time: art which appropriates institutional or corporate identities, creates fictional ones, hacks softwares and game engines for its own purposes, infiltrates online or offline communities in order to portray them or their own myths, subverts existing tools or creates its own ones, explores the aesthetics of computation and information spaces; or, more simply, uses computer hardware and software in order to create art which talks about our world.

With the accelerated technological development (e.g. large flat screens, powerful beamers [projectors], ubiquitous computing, fast network) and the sociological and cultural acceptance of digital tools and media, new media art is becoming one of the main currents of 21th century art, looking at its own nexus to our techno-environment as a strength (not deafness), and is entering into our everyday life in our office, in public or corporate buildings as well as in our home

The exhibition includes work from Cory Arcangel (USA), Gazira Babeli (SL), Boredomresearch (UK), Christophe Bruno (FR), Gregory Chatonsky (FR), Miguel Chevalier (FR), Vuk Cosic (SLO), Shane Hope (USA), Jodi (BE/NL), Lab[au] (BE), Joan Leandre (SP), Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied (RU/DE), Golan Levin (USA), Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG (IT), Alison Mealey (UK), Mark Napier (USA), C.E.B. Reas (USA), Charles Sandison (UK/FI), Antoine Schmitt (FR), Yacine Sebti (BE), Alexei Shulgin & Aristarkh Chernyshev (RU), John F. Simon, Jr. (USA), Paul Slocum (USA), Wolfgang Staehle (USA), Eddo Stern (USA), Ubermorgen.com (AT), and Carlo Zanni (IT).