“Thresholds” Exhibition

Microscope Gallery

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Both works in Thresholds utilize original videos recorded by the artists that have been deconstructed into as many as 25,000 animated gifs and then reassembled across a grid of phasing pivot points to create moving image works that play in browser windows (not through video playback devices).

In “the _____ of strings and objects”, images from the original video – escalator stairs, subway tunnels, burning sparklers, city traffic and other scenes – play, slightly offset, on each of two 60 inch LED screens. Subtle changes in light, motion, and content between and within the grids challenge the viewer’s ability to recognize the familiar in this 25-minute looping work. A third browser, on a smaller screen, offers a real time report of the activities of the main screens – which are able to interact with each other through a web socket (a virtual open “door”) – including the rotations of the gifs, the state of the browsers, and other raw event-based messages.
In the second installation, “if (an index) is occupied”, a 10-minute, single monitor work based on the same technology as the first piece, the artists take the element of self-reflection further, featuring the language and structures of software as both content and subject matter. The imagery – often seen as viewed through a magnifying lens – contains among others the actual code of the first written computer program (by Ada Lovelace) as well as the artists code used to generate the work itself. What is seen, although generated by a language is no longer that language, but an aestheticized by-product of its execution.

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Schedule

from November 19, 2013 to December 01, 2013

Opening Reception on 2013-11-19 from 18:00 to 21:00

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