>get >put
an exhibition of downloaders and uploaders
november 2 — 30 2012
Closing reception: Saturday November 24th, 6PM — 9PM
Curated by Kelani Nichole
>get >put is an exploration of the interplay of physical, social and digital space — it is an exhibition about the ways in which identity, experience, aesthetic and meaning oscillate through the networked world and the real. Uploading and downloading are ubiquitous behaviors in our day-to-day, and so the virtual invades the real, data sets mesh, personalities blur, and aesthetics run rampant. With a book from The Institute of Social Hypocrisy as inspiration, six artists put “The Sound of Downloading Makes me want to Upload” into form. Their work takes shape as digital compositions anchored in spatiotemporal objects, developed through IRL + online practice for this exhibition.
this exhibition is inspired by a book of the Internet encountered IRL at a book fair hosted by an artspace.