<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.galeriecharlot.com/en/expo/152/Data-Dating" target="_blank">DATA DATING</a><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><br> !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Adam Basanta, Olga Fedorova, Zach Gage, Tom
Galle, Pablo Garcia, Thomas Israël, Moises Sanabria, Antoine Schmitt, Jeroen van Loon,
Addie Wagenknecht, John Yuyi<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><br>Curated by Valentina Peri<br><br>What does it mean to love in the Internet age? How are digital
interfaces reshaping our personal relationships? What do new
technologies imply for the future of the romantic sphere? How do screens
affect our sexual intimacy? Are the new means of connection shifting
the old paradigms of adult life?<br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>By bringing together the work of several international artists, the
exhibition Data Dating attempts to explore new directions in modern
romance: new forms of intimate communication, the process of
commodification of love through online dating services and hookup
applications, unprecedented meeting and mating behaviors, the
renegotiation of sexual identities, and changing erotic mores and
taboos.</span><br><br>Opening : May 17 /// Exhibition from May 18 to July 7, 2018.
<br>Galerie Charlot, 47 rue Charlot 75003 Paris, France<br><br><a href="http://www.galeriecharlot.com/en/expo/152/Data-Dating" target="_blank">http://www.galeriecharlot.com/<wbr>en/expo/152/Data-Dating</a><br><br></div><div>/// Love/Sex/Intimacy/Internet ///<br></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p></p><p>What does it mean to love in the Internet age? How are digital
interfaces reshaping our personal relationships? What do new
technologies imply for the future of the romantic sphere? How do screens
affect our sexual intimacy? Are the new means of connection shifting
the old paradigms of adult life?</p>
<p>The advent of the Internet and smartphones has brought about a split
in the romantic lives of millions of people, who now inhabit both the
real world and their very own “phone world”. In terms of romance and
sexual intimacy these phenomena have generated new complexities that we
are still trying to figure out.</p>
<p>By bringing together the work of several international artists, the
exhibition Data Dating attempts to explore new directions in modern
romance: new forms of intimate communication, the process of
commodification of love through online dating services and hookup
applications, unprecedented meeting and mating behaviors, the
renegotiation of sexual identities, and changing erotic mores and
taboos.</p>
<p>Over the past century, the history of dating practices has shown that
the acquisition of new freedoms is often accompanied by suspicions and
stereotypes: what appears disturbing to one generation often ends up
being acceptable for the next.</p>
<p>From the early computers algorithms of the 1960s, to the video
cameras of the 1970s, the bulletin board systems of the 1980s, the
Internet of the 1990s, and the smartphones of the last decade, every new
format of electronically mediated matching has faced a stigma of some
kind.</p>
<p>Today, the lack of broadly defined norms is creating a disconnected,
two-tiered world in which some exist in a pre-internet reality, while
others – who have grown up as individuals and sexual beings online – see
the Internet not as an arcane elsewhere where people go to escape
reality, but as reality proper.</p>
<p>What has changed is the “sexual script”: the roles that people feel
are available for them to perform, thanks to the fact that the Internet,
perhaps more than any other medium, enables self and identity to be
played with.</p>
<p>Several authors –like Aaron Ben-Ze'ev and Laurent Rosewarne–have
stressed that the online affairs world is disrupting the monogamous
nature of romantic relationships and facilitating different sexual and
romantic behavior, eventually confirming the “prophecy” of Herbert
Marcuse’s 1955 book, Eros and Civilization.</p>
<p>According to a recent study, 1 couple on 5 has met through a dating
website: the massive scale of this phenomenon is evidence enough of its
potential for profit and an extensive collection of user data. Dating
websites and hookup applications will be the most rentable business in
the future of the Internet. Today they are ranking third among paid
content sites online, outpacing even pornography. This aspect raises
questions about the planned obsolescence that is supposedly inherent in
this business model: the idea that online dating companies, having a
latent interest in matches failing, acknowledge the search for partners
as a recreational activity and product to be endless consumed.</p>
<p>As Eva Illouz has stated in Consuming the Romantic Utopia, “romantic
love is a collective arena within which the social divisions and the
cultural contradictions of capitalism are played out”.</p>
<p>Data Dating aims to promote debate on the ways in which society is
responding to one of the greatest challenges of today: mapping the new
connections between emotion, desire, culture, technology, and economy by
considering Internet as a social practice, a shift of society at large.</p><p></p><p>Valentina Peri, 2018</p></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><div class="m_6012491553921525455gmail-m_9124379610043994141gmail-text-box-wrapper" style="max-height:none;overflow:hidden;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div id="m_6012491553921525455gmail-m_9124379610043994141gmail-text_box" class="m_6012491553921525455gmail-m_9124379610043994141gmail-text_box" style="max-height:none"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/snqnzzzovlxb6h9/AAAodLSEHxKTMeHc97uiIGHVa?dl=0" target="_blank">Press Kit</a><br></span></font></span></div><div id="m_6012491553921525455gmail-m_9124379610043994141gmail-text_box" class="m_6012491553921525455gmail-m_9124379610043994141gmail-text_box" style="max-height:none"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/bo2wj7jplbybamw/DP%20DataDatingEN-bd.pdf?dl=0">Press release</a><br><br><a href="http://www.galeriecharlot.com/en/expo/152/Data-Dating" target="_blank">More info</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></span></font></span></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br class="m_6012491553921525455gmail-m_9124379610043994141gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></font></span></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
</font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"></span><br clear="all"></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Valentina Peri<br></div><div dir="ltr">+33 6 33 95 56 93<br>---<br></div><div>Galerie Charlot<br></div><div>47 rue Charlot 75003 Paris<br></div><div><a href="mailto:valentina@galeriecharlot.com" target="_blank">valentina@galeriecharlot.com</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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