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Analogital
Thursday March 7, 2013 from 7:00am - 7:00am
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
20 S West Temple
Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 Get Directions
Analogital is an exhibition of international artists who engage with concepts generated from the transitional space between analogue and digital. Specifically the notion analyzes the forms that emerge from our culture's conversion from film grain to computer pixel. However, more broadly the term identifies a perceptual evolution in the human experience and its mediation.
In the mid-seventies at the University of Utah, innovators made breakthrough developments in early computer graphics and virtual designs like the "Utah Teapot", experiments that would lead to the founding of Pixar and early pursuits of digital reality. Eventual media such as ASCII, ProTools, Nintendo Entertainment System, CAD, gifs, jpegs and above all the Internet opened a multiverse of possible ways to render, perceive and copy the world around us. Social networking interfaces, video game systems and reality television additionally provide new avenues through which communication, behavioral learning and interaction occur virtually or with mediated remove. Analogital is about artists analyzing this science-fictional relationship existing between technology and the human condition.
"Today's voracious image culture has led to a simulacrum of compounds where artists reference references of references and imagine the copy to be the original," says Senior Curator Aaron Moulton. "New image vocabularies are emerging coupled with an unnostalgic condition where these images appear, quickly evolve, disperse and disappear unarchived. Yet certain likenesses pervade our consciousness with no traceable reference, a kind of collective consciousness in an open-sourced handmade pixel. This combined with the virtual social conditions allow for a new way of considering sentimentality, sentience and sociality in the 21st century."
The opening of Analogital will be on January 18, 8:00pm-10:00 p.m. with DJ/DC, food and cash bar. There will also be a Question and Answer prior to the reception with artist Jennifer West 7:00pm-8:00pm.
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