{"id":3713,"date":"2011-10-29T01:59:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T01:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2011-10-29T01:59:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T01:59:26","slug":"review-datafields-continent-isaac-linder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/?p=3713","title":{"rendered":"Review – Data\/Fields – Continent- Isaac Linder"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Those readers on the part of a continent that involves something called \u201cArlington, Virginia\u201d should be interested to hear about an exhibition of new-media installation and soundworks that opened last week at\u00a0Artisphere\u00a0and will be on display through November 27th. For those readers geographically dispossessed, this announcement can at least serve as an introduction to the work of those involved. Curated by the renowned composer, designer, and\u00a0LINE\u00a0imprint boss, Richard Chartier, the show collates new work by five transcontinental artists:<\/p>\n

Caleb Coppock\u00a0(U.S.)
\nMark Fell\u00a0(U.K.)
\nAndy Graydon\u00a0(U.S.\/Germany)
\nRyoji Ikeda\u00a0(Japan)
\nFrance Jobin\u00a0(Canada)<\/p>\n

Originally conceived to take place four years ago at The University of Maryland, in the art department where my mother and father were to meet and fall in love, the project was waylaid by the turbulence of departmental budget cuts and postponements before production was finally halted. The show in its current incarnation should then be considered as a condensation and streamlining of Chartier\u2019s original vision. The first presentation of any of the included artist\u2019s work in the DC area, the show marks as well the first US exhibit for both Mark Fell and France Jobin.<\/p>\n

Straightforwardly a foray into the now familiar tropes of interactivity and data visualization\/sonicization in the arts (have the arts ever been anything other than dataviz? Ah, but that\u2019s for a whole other post\u2026), the show is of course not only that. With it\u2019s investigations into the themes of transfinite mathematics, the perception of quanta, and incomprehensibility, the show remains keenly attuned to the sense of the body and percipience of the viewer. (Chartier charmingly describes the viewers of the show \u2018percipients\u2019.) In an interview about the opening, Chartier mentioned that it was the longest he had experienced viewers interacting with artworks at a show he had seen in the US; a good sign for those of us who bemoan the meat-packing pace of exhibition viewership today!<\/p>\n

As is often the case with my interactions with art, the thematic of the observer stilled before incomprehensible magnitude takes me back to the perennially rehashed 2,400 year old question regarding the banishment of the mimetic arts from Plato\u2019s Republic. For Plato the exclusion would have been a question of art\u2019s capacity to besiege its witnesses with a sense of \u03b8\u03b5\u00ed\u03bf\u03c2 \u03d5\u03bf\u03b2\u00f3\u03c2. Construing a quick trinity, it\u2019s a concept taken up in an in-depth, Continent.-friendly tenor by Ranci\u00e8re in his recent work on Hegel and Lyotard. (See\u00a0The Future of the Image,\u00a0Verso, 2007). Even more recently, for the art historian Donald Preziosi, this a\/effect, translated variously as holy terror, fear, or awe, is named as such because it is directly proportional to the work\u2019s ability to reveal the artifice intrinsic to art and by extension the artificiality of all sociopolitical and religious modes of organization. (See Preziosi\u2019s forthcoming Routledge title,\u00a0Art, Religion & Amnesia: Enchanted Credulities.) Not good news for those with vested interests in maintaining modes of organization as they stand!<\/p>\n

With its exfoliations, redressings, and retunings of our data and sensoria, dependent as they are upon relatively recent developments within the technoaesthetic apparatus (gigabytes of processing RAM, LCD projectors, and touchscreen interfaces), I\u2019ll be curious to hear from those who make it to\u00a0data\/fields\u00a0the extent to which it manages to unearth this ancient, but by no means archaic, line of thought. As Paul touched upon in his recent post on\u00a0The Shifting Imago of Sovereignty\u00a0the high-speed, transactional nature of data would seem to occupy a unique place in it\u2019s ability to leave us beset by the stupor of fear and trembling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those readers on the part of a continent that involves something called \u201cArlington, Virginia\u201d should be interested to hear about an exhibition of new-media installation and soundworks that opened last week at\u00a0Artisphere\u00a0and will be on display through November 27th. For those readers geographically dispossessed, this announcement can at least serve as an introduction to the … <\/p>\n

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