Landscapes-Worlds Real

Landscapes-Worlds Real

Curated by Kristin Trethewey + Victoria Keddie

August 8 - 28, 2011

chashama 266
266 West 37th Street
New York, NY

Open Daily W-Sun 12PM-5PM
Opening Party: Thursday August 11 6PM-8PM
Closing Party: Thursday August 25 6PM-8PM

This exhibition showcases artists and designers who engage in abstracting realities through mapping data structures and constructing worlds. Visual data, urban planning for remote countries and cartographic methodologies will be exhibited. Collectively, these artists provide insight into overlapping realities of the real and the virtual.

Artists: Robert Pietrusko, Jon Rafman, Ingo Gunther, Katja Loher, Igal Nassima

Ingo Gunther since 1989, Günther uses globes as a medium for his artistic and journalistic interests. In 1989, nine months before the reunification of Germany, he founded the first independent TV station in Eastern Europe Channel X, Leipzig in order to contribute to the establishment of a free media landscape.
http://www.worldprocessor.com/

Jon Rafman is a Montreal-born film-maker and new media artist. He holds a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Philosophy and Literature from McGill University.
http://jonrafman.com/

Robert Gerard Pietrusko is an engineer-designer focusing on the relationship between contemporary technology and spatial products. Recently, Gerard co-founded Harvard University’s new digital humanities research initiative— metaLAB.  He is currently a 2011 artist-in-residence at the ZKM Institute for Visual Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Katja Loher projects her videos onto the surface of large shiny orbs hanging in the galleryspace. Loher‘s sculptural video works address a field of tension between escapist phantasy and oppressive reality. Her surreal worlds are populated by realistic figures that tumble aboutvirtual spaces and appear to be intent on preventing
ecological collapse.
http://www.katjaloher.com/

Igal Nassima is a programmer and an artist from Istanbul, Turkey. He is the director of 319 Scholes Performance Space, a venue in Bushwick, Brooklyn. 
http://materials.nassima.com