Jason Salavon "Control"
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts presents new work by Jason Salavon. Using software of his own design, Salavon transforms masses of public, communally generated data to reveal previously unimagined images. Salavon's newest work is concerned with the tools and toys that allow us to model and quantify information and simultaneously provide a platform for seductive, but dehumanizing, abstractions.
Salavon's solo exhibition, Control, features large-scale installations, entitled A Seamlessness Between Things (2013), which consist of ten real-time video projections of synthesized data. Viewers are invited to interact with control devices inset into four handcrafted tables from which the videos are projected. All of the controls, pushbuttons, knobs, and joysticks are functional and manipulate the projected imagery, but not all relationships between the devices are transparent. Salavon highlights an increasing "game-ification" of contemporary life as evidenced by ubiquitous phenomena like online social networks and smart phones.
The new work explores interconnectedness, such as how many steps to get from "bridge building" to "Kim Kardashian" on Wikipedia, and the way this hidden digital network has become an intrinsic part of our everyday environment. The exhibition includes;
[Image: Jason Salavon "Last Stop, Widgetville" (2012) C-print, 40.7 x 48 in.]
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Schedule
from February 23, 2013 to March 30, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-02-23 from 18:00 to 20:00