Joseph Farbrook "Nostalgia for Neverwas"
AC Institute
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Nostalgia for Neverwas is a mixture of old and new technologies and styles. It is a joining and a recombinant hybrid of a fictionalized past and an idealized future. As we find ourselves immersed in turbulence and uncertainty, perhaps sleepless with anxiety, one may feel a pull toward a seemingly weightless past; a simpler time that moved at a pace slower and more comprehensible. As the wavy lines clear and the focus sharpens, it emerges that this past is so edited and revised, that if the same were to be applied to the present, there would be a longing only for this moment.
Joseph Farbrook grew up in New York City and Santa Fe, raised by his father, a concrete poet and his mother, a painter. Farbrook attended the University of Colorado focusing on performance and narrative, where he wrote electronic music, poetry and fiction. Becoming interested in a more immersive approach to narrative, he began using computers and the Internet as creative media. Subsequently discovered by the art department, he was offered a fellowship to pursue an MFA in digital art. Working in a visual arts environment, Farbrook began creating electronic installations, interactive video and virtual reality narratives. He also experimented with media-reflexive live performances mixed with interactive screen projections. Farbrook's latest work explores the intersections between video, video games and sculpture.
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Schedule
from October 22, 2009 to November 28, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-10-22 from 18:00 to 20:00