"Photographic Dysplastic" Exhibition

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pho·to·graph·ic [foh-tuh-graf-ik] –adjective
1. of or pertaining to photography.
2. suggestive of a photograph; extremely realistic and detailed: photographic accuracy.
3. remembering, reproducing, or functioning with the precision of a photograph: a photographic memory.

dysplastic [dis-plas-tik from dis-play-zhuh, -zhee-uh, -zee-uh]–adjective
(from the Greek δυσπλασία “malformation”, δυσ- “mal-” + πλάθω “to create, to form”), is a term used in pathology to refer to an abnormality of development. This generally consists of an expansion of immature cells, with a corresponding decrease in the number and location of mature cells.

Photographic Dysplastic is a group exhibition featuring 12 students from The School of Art at The Cooper Union whose projects respond to a 21st century question concerning the state of information and image over-saturation. As our digital image culture becomes increasingly shaped by Flickr, Google, and other internet technologies, the sheer saturation of images seems to suggest that the contemporary moment is now an infinite bargain-bin of surreal and banal moments captured, uploaded, and archived on the net. When virtually every type of image has been seen, and is expected to be seen, what are the implications for the striking, strange, and uncanny? The artists in Photographic Dysplastic are asking where we go next: what happens when an artist’s process evokes the photographic, yet no image is taken? What happens when a photographic series becomes an event, leaving merely residue for anyone who missed it? Interrogating the difference that separates “photographs” from “images,” the exhibition suggests that the surface of a photograph is not just a computer screen, but also something more tangible and present, a record that exists as both a spatial and temporal index. The contemporary moment has reinvigorated an artistic dialog around t he photograph as an experiential, tangible object, and this exhibition begins with these queries and limits.

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from April 12, 2011 to April 17, 2011

Opening Reception on 2011-04-12 from 19:00 to 21:00

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