Feedback

March 30, 2007 - June 30, 2007

Laboral Centro de Arte, Gijon, Spain

FEEDBACK is one of the inaugural exhibitions at LABORAL Centre for Art and Creative Industries in Gijon, Asturias, Spain. It is an exhibition focusing on art responsive to instructions, input, or its environment and creates one possible narrative of the history of 'new media art'. Featuring historical and current art works that are all based on technology and systems of response, the exhibition traces the history of contemporary artistic practice involving digital technologies. Curators: Christiane Paul, Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Jemima Rellie, Director of Digital Programmes, Tate Modern, London


Works Shown

Traffic #2: At Home

2004, Installation with video projection

Each of these tabletop miniature kinetic sculptures involves two linked narratives. In At Home, the film reference is Sugarland Express by Steven Spielberg. The other is a tableau portraying the artists themselves in the act of watching the film at home on a small television- a live video feed of the cinematic recreation appears on their screen. In the gallery space, a video sequence cuts back and forth between images of the artists in their viewing environment and images of the film scene they are watching. The soundtrack is taken from the original film sequence.