CuratorSquared

Manufactured Reality

ORGANIZING INSTITUTION SOUGHT

DATES  Available summer 2011

DESCRIPTION  Just as Alice viewed the world Through the Looking Glass, artists included in this exhibition see reality through a technological filter of mediated experiences, and then articulate the schism between original source and resulting perception. The generation that came of age without the Internet, and then witnessed the explosion of that technology within a short period of time have a unique relationship with that endless resource. With unlimited and random information at our fingertips, we have become accustomed to a reality that is essentially a collage of second-hand experience. In the spirit of this visual layering, many artists employ surprisingly low tech and unrefined techniques that serve to expose the manufactured view they have created. As a result, the work included in this exhibition explores the degrees of separation between the virtual and true experience, and question the importance of reality in a world filled with alternative realities.

The works in the exhibition will be organized around three strategies which artists are using to manufacture reality:

lo-tech collage / blending of two distinct media
purposefully crude translation from one medium to another
constructing objects/environments using everyday materials and exposed visual tricks

ARTISTS UNDER CONSIDERATION  Brian Alfred, Conrad Bakker, Olaf Breuning, Gary Carsley, Susan Collis, Geoffrey Farmer, Marcus George, Emil Goh,
John Haddock, Deborah Hamon, Coke Wisdom O’Neal, Jan Pfeiffer, Betina Pousttchi, Kevin Schmidt, Yao Lu

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