Friday, September
8-Sunday, October 1, 2006
Opening reception: Thursday September 8, 7-9 pm
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA |
The Los Angeles Center For Digital Art decided to launch
an international experiment where the national artists
upload images that are printed and hung by the gallery.
The hundreds of works are displayed in a grid like installation
(reminiscent of postcard art shows of the 1980's) where
every work submitted is exhibited.
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Keisha
Roberts, Memory and Testimony:
Negro Woman Planting Tobacco First |
The usual (less than democratic) selection process where
only the precious few are chosen is turned on its head
in a curatorial anarchy where everyone gets to participate
and the viewer is literally left to be the judge. The
show represents a snapshot of a current moment in art
history when digital imaging has reached the hands of
the many, an age where culture belongs to the "mobblogers"
around the globe. From Thailand to Texas, amateur to academic,
beautiful to banal and beyond the monumental quantity
and variety of Snap to Grid
becomes an aesthetic experience where each individual
piece adds to an agglomerative effect that has a life
of its own. |
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