Susanne Ramsenthaler "Interference"
511 Gallery
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Interference is the result of Ramsenthaler's ongoing enquiry into the synthesis of vision and touch, which reveals the ever increasing digitalization of image processing. While attempting to create visual representations of touch through processes of computerized manipulations and agitations, the artist's hand is removed from the creation of the very tactile qualities she seeks to visually represent, separating the artist from the work and imposing an unavoidable sense of irony.
Each piece is disrupted by an interference, however subtle or obvious, of an otherwise perfectly uniform, digitally produced pattern. The infallibility of mechanized production and reproduction is derailed. These disturbances, however, are necessarily digital in their manifestation, demonstrating the impossibility of actual physical human touch in the computerized environment, and in our current digital era. Nonetheless, Ramsenthaler confesses joy in repeatedly committing the small anarchic act of running the mechanized equivalent of her finger through a perfectly constructed digital pattern. Approaching the visualization of the act and effect of touch with the closest proximity possible in a computerized environment, Ramsenthaler simultaneously comments on the inevitable absence of touch in such a context.
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Schedule
from October 22, 2009 to November 24, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-10-22 from 18:00 to 20:00