<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Details of a forthcoming exhibition I'm part of in New York. Apologies for cross posting.</div><div><br></div><div>-----------------------------</div><div><br></div>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<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show">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?<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.</span><div><br></div><div><span class="text_exposed_show"></span>Gallery site:<br><div><span class="text_exposed_show"><a href="http://319scholes.org/nov-10-%E2%80%93-nov-20-2011-notes-on-a-new-nature/" target="_blank">http://319scholes.org/nov-10-%E2%80%93-nov-20-2011-notes-on-a-new-nature/</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="text_exposed_show"><a href="http://319scholes.org/nov-10-%E2%80%93-nov-20-2011-notes-on-a-new-nature/" target="_blank"></a></span>Facebook event page:</div><div><a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=269943109714089" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=269943109714089</a></div><div><div><span class="text_exposed_show"><br> <div class="location vcard"><span class="fn org"><a class="url" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/319-Scholes/191234134225243">319 Scholes</a> </span>Brooklyn, NY</div> November 10 – November 20, 2011<br> Opening: November 10, 7:00pm – 10:00pm<br> Gallery hours: Friday and Saturday, 2:00pm – 6:00pm and by appointment</span><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Garrett</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 12px; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:Garrett@asquare.org">Garrett@asquare.org</a> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.asquare.org/">http://www.asquare.org/</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.asquare.org/networkresearch/">http://www.asquare.org/networkresearch/</a></div></div></div> </div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>