Exposure
Marie Sester, 2001
Three-channel HD video projection
The series of still images presented in Exposure offer a glimpse into the innards of large-scale objects, rendering them transparent. The piece makes use of X-ray images of trucks, such as those used at border crossings, which reveal their inner workings and their cargo. Presented at monumental scale, these images are intercut with images taken from a different surveilance technology, colorful 3D laser scan views of residential houses.
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Note: this work is not a part of the exhibition The New Normal.
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June 15, 2008
Sic, Notes from a keylogger
Lance Wakeling, 2006/2007
Sic is a visual record kept by a program called a keylogger that artist Lance Wakeling has installed on his computer. It records every key pressed, including errors and deletions, when the artist is writing what appear to be emails. The artist says this information is “best kept private, but the range of information is so great and cluttered with such noise it remains impenetrable.”
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Note: this work is not a part of the exhibition The New Normal.
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June 14, 2008
An exhibition checklist for the show can now be seen on our Flickr page.
More photos from Artists Space coming soon.
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June 13, 2008
Rep. John Culberson (R - Texas) made news for his Twitter feed. He began posting on the micro-blogging site in late May with the post ‘I just learned how to Twitter!’ and hasn’t looked back since. Now, he’s gotten into a public flame war with fellow Twitterer Tim Ryan (D - Ohio) about oil policy. [via Sunlight Foundation]
Meanwhile, a busy Facebook user created ten profiles pages, each with 200 friends, and placed them for sale on eBay, ostensibly to be used for marketing purposes. The listing was later removed. [via Adrants]
Surveillance and celebrity came together when this young man stole a chain from a teenager in south-east London and then tried it on, using a CCTV camera as a mirror. [via BBC News]
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June 13, 2008
I found this nice write-up about the show thanks to Google Blog Alerts. (What did we ever do without them?) Here’s a quote:
“What becomes evident throughout The New Normal is that for a number of political, technological, and social reasons, the boundaries between the private and the public - whether it be our bodies, our identities, or the spaces in which we occupy, are rapidly shrinking and that we play a complicit role in this process. The public disclosure of the private is not only a ramification of the Patriot Act, but also a desire for celebritydom, or interconnection; a weighty topic that makes for a timely exhibition that sparks rumination on the social and political fabric of society today.”
Read the full review by John Everett Daquino here.
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June 13, 2008
