[spectre] Notes on a New Nature at 319 Scholes Brooklyn, NY

[Garrett Lynch]

Details of a forthcoming exhibition I'm part of in New York.   
Apologies for cross posting.

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Notes on a New Nature is a physical manifestation of an ongoing  
research project conducted by artist, writer, and curator Nicholas  
O'Brien. The research critically examines and compares the  
relationships that contemporary artists working with digital media  
have to practices started in Modernist Painting – specifically the  
pursuit of capturing the virtual qualities of what constitutes a  
landscape. How does an artist depict a sp...ace faithfully enough to  
show its affect on a subject? Can art capture the space between the  
viewer and the horizon, and where does that horizon reside now that we  
can digitally circumnavigate the globe? Can the digital reconcile the  
physical?

One way that we know how to understand the natural is through the  
domestic spaces of our daily lives. The interior shelter allows for  
reflection on what is “outside,” and as a result positions  
civilization away from the natural. However, as various digital and  
virtual landscape permeate the domestic space, our notion of what  
constitutes the natural has become more complicated than a simple  
inside/outside dichotomy. We use all forms of digital and analog  
technologies to simulate the natural world daily, and artists in this  
show point to how these tools affect the ways in which the “realness”  
of the natural is no longer as simple as locating it outside your  
window.

This newfound complication highlights the central argument of Notes on  
a New Nature: our varied notion of what constitutes the natural is  
shaped by technology, which is a narrative that can be traced all the  
way back to the advent of agriculture and the dawn of civilization.  
Through employment of various digital approaches, artists in this  
exhibition reference this long-standing problem we face when  
attempting to represent landscape and acknowledge the ways in which  
digital technology has forever changed our understanding of nature.

Participating artists include: Duncan Alexander, Mark Beasley, Chris  
Collins, Petra Cortright, Theo Darst, Marjolijn Dijkman, Paul  
Flannery, Joe Hamilton (aka Hypergeography), Jan Robert Leegte, Sara  
Ludy, Garrett Lynch, Michael Ray-Vaughn, Sherwin Rivera Tibayan,  
Nicolas Sassoon, Rick Silva, Pascual Sisto, Kate Steciw, Wes W Wilson,  
and Krist Wood.

Gallery site:
http://319scholes.org/nov-10-%E2%80%93-nov-20-2011-notes-on-a-new-nature/

Facebook event page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=269943109714089

319 Scholes Brooklyn, NY
November 10 – November 20, 2011
Opening: November 10, 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Gallery hours: Friday and Saturday, 2:00pm – 6:00pm and by appointment


Garrett

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