“WAH: A New Diversity” Exhibition
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
[Image: Kenji Kojima "Still from Subway Synesthesia" RGB Music Series]
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WAH: A New Diversity brings together the works of three visionary artists who are using innovative technologies and mediums to bridge the divide between art and technology. These works combine visual and/or auditory elements to create unique, multimedia compositions that reflect on our contemporary, technology based lifestyles. WAH: A New Diversity features the works of Kenji Kojima, Oliver Warden, and Egon Zippel.
Curator, Yuko Nii, Founder and Artistic Director of the WAH Center, would like to thank both Hazel Santino, Curator at Brooklyn Fireproof (BFP) Collective LLC and Kyoko Sato Ono, Independant Curator/Exhibition Producer, for their kind help.
Kenji Kojima’s RGB Music series has been experimenting with the relationships between perception and cognition, mathematics, technology, music and visual art since 2007. The project core is the development of software “RGB MusicLab”. RGB MusicLab converts digital color values of an image to twelve-tone sounds. The program reads RGB (Red, Green, Blue) value of an image. RGB value 120 is the middle C of the musical scale. One pixel makes a harmony of three notes of RGB value, and the length of note is determined by the brightness of pixel. Kojima derives sound from photographic images to create a haunting symphony of modern life.
Oliver Warden was inspired by the quick expansion of the Internet in the early 1990s. Warden wanted to reduce interactivity to its common denominators: on/off, you/me. At that time, Warden’s interests in Hitchcock, and especially the film Rear Window, also played a role in forming the conceptual interests in voyeurism and exhibitionism. The combination of these two interests allowed him to create a binary experience where the viewer, be it artist or participant, can momentarily be in a position of power.
Egon Zippel uses projections and videos to explore the fragmentation and realities of conventional life. Through his projected work, we see fractured horizons in a seemingly never ending stream of combinations, with an occasional moment of harmony when the images match. Zippel’s video installation explores the commonplace sight of fractured and abandoned bikes that are littered throughout the city, bringing focus on these spectral vestiges of city living.
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Schedule
from September 12, 2015 to September 27, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-09-12 from 18:00 to 21:00