Through the Looking Glass
Contemporary Digital and Technological Art
Gallery Exhibition:
April 15th through April 30th, 2000,
The Beachwood Center for the Arts, 25511 Fairmount Blvd.
Online Exhibition
May 1st, 2000 to April 15th, 2001 (minimum)
Digital prints, an interactive sound grid, neon sculpture, kinetics,
generative music. These are the arts at the
turn-of-the-millennium. Those familiar with the Internet experience
technological media all the time, but collectors, museums, and galleries
are beginning to appreciate the growing use of technological media in the
fine arts. The Beachwood Arts Council presents Through the Looking Glass,
a survey of the creative potential within current technological
advances. The gallery show featured mixed-media 'paintings', CD-ROM
installations, neon sculptures and interactive sound environments.
And with the closure of the gallery exhibition on April 30, the online
portion of the exhibiton becomes central, located at
http//www.voyd.com/ttlg where the works of over 80 of the world's most
prominent gallery and Internet artists with noted cultural theorists are
featured. In addition, the online component includes a virtual
recreation of the Beachwood Center for the Arts gallery and
"exhibits", allowing visitors to see the layout of the physical
exhibition.
Additional plans may include an online forum to discuss issues of
contemporary art practice in technological media, contingent on response
to the exhibit.
Curator Patrick Lichty is a conceptual media artist and cultural theorist
whose solo and collaborative works have been presented at the Walker Art
Center, New York Digital Salon, ZKM Karlsruhe and the Whitney
Biennial. He brings noted artists such as Mark Amerika, Natalie
Bookchin, Shu Lea Cheang, David Crawford, Jerry Domokur, and Roman
Verostko with critics Steve Dietz, Alex Galloway, Lev Manovich, and
Eugene Thacker to the Through the Looking Glass site, making it the first
of its kind at the Beachwood gallery and the Cleveland
area.
Patrick Lichty is available to provide additional information at the
following:
8211 E. Wadora NW
N. Canton, Ohio, 44720
330-494-5593
voyd@raex.com
Gallery Artists
Carol Adams -
Selected Sculptures
Cliff Bheum - Print
Helene Black - Identities
Jerry Domokur - Print
Wayne Draznin - NIagara, & Trinity Test
Bill Ellsworth - Digital Prints
W. Logan Fry - CyberTextiles
haymarket RIOT - MACHINE/WEB
Caroline Koebel - C2000
Patrick Lichty & Scott Draves (GridBomb)
Patrick Lichty - Selected Prints
Greg Little - Body of Text
Kazuhiko Saika - Selected works
Jenny Marketou - SmellBytes
Patrick Maun
- Outside Looking Inside
Noriko Meguro - Digital Prints
Rayner/Turner - Cycle Engines
Michael Rees - Digital Sculptures
RTMark - Selected Works
Roman Verostko - Manchester Illuminated Turing
Machine
Yumiko Yokoi
- Selected Works
CD-ROM Artists
Kuljit Chuhan
- Resonance
Fujihata/Furukawa/Munch - Small Fish
Glendenning/Etchells
(w/Forced Entertainment) - Nightwalks
Raivo
Kelomees - Tokyo City
Barbara Lattanzi - Wilderness Puppets
Calin Man - The Golden Virus
The Rotator (continuous rotating slide show)
Johnathan
Allen (UK)
Cliff Behum
(USA)
Danko Djuric
(Serbia)
Bill
Ellsworth (USA)
Lale Erguner
(Turkey)
David Graham
(USA)
Juan Carlos
Gomez de la Torre (Ecuador)
Keith Hunter
(USA)
Dennis
Jennings (USA)
Yasushi
Kitami (Japan) Michael Krasowitz
(USA)
UK Nakagawa
(Japan)
Hiro Nakano
(Japan)
Kazuhiko
Saika(Japan)
Vedran Vucic
(Slovenia)
Zach Wilson
(USA)
Yoko
Dholbachie (Japan)
The VRML Gallery (with Tsugihiko Tanaka - in development)
Critical texts by:
Susan Ballard - My viewing body does not end at the skin
Brian Carroll - The Archtecture of Electricity
Steve Dietz - Why Have There Been No Great Net Artists?
DX Raiden (KIT) and Scott Weir (Artengine) - Mediated Intoxication:
navigating with double vision
Alex Galloway - The Avant-Garde Never Gives Up
Lev Manovich - To be Announced in May
Kylie Message - Being Within Story, Screen, and Museum Space
Robbin Neal Murphy - To be Announced in May
Eugene Thacker - "Appropriate Technology: Artificial Products,
Mediation, and Streaming Media
Vedran Vucic - Toward Alive Art