Event detail
Publishing, distribution, dissemination; the sharing of ideas, filter bubbles that isolate us from each other, the speeds of data we receive warping our time and attention, have become so very everyday.
The "locust swarms of lettering" described by Walter Benjamin almost a century earlier, as writing was "ruthlessly dragged out into the street by advertisements and subjected to the brutal heteronomies of economic chaos" was curiously prescient of the omnipotence of digital code, but for all intents and purposes, means that we can just type a lot better than our parents.
A significant shift has occurred though, in that the map has become the territory.
Whereas the previous model of the map involved representation of what was out there, for us to use for our own devices, (albeit drawn for someone else's), we are now an intrinsic part of the data that we inscribe within the map itself.
Whether it's the unprecedented amount of information the vast database the internet provides, or the algorithms; the 'filters' that drive it, increasingly personalising our experience, or the materiality of digital data and its supporting frameworks, we co-evolve with the technology we produce, both in the short and long term.
The works selected here go some way to exploring the heavily mediated air of the present day and how these might impact on ideas of art and artistic production.
Benedict Drew - Notes on the Dumb Terminal.
Tim Head - Beauty and the Beast.
Chris Rawcliffe - Edition of 1.
Nesting somewhere in the middle of the exhibition, is an episodic group event, which will display a different digital video loop every day for 14 days, curated by Majed Aslam and Fay Nicolson.
RE-RUN. 6th March - 21st March. "An invitation and the limit of the loop."
Actress, Ayshay, Majed Aslam, Nathan Barlex, David Blandy, Ami Clarke, Jess Flood-Paddock, Dean Kissick, Gil Leung, Chooc Ly Tan, Fay Nicolson, Damien Roach, Oliver Smith, Jesse Wine.
Selected artists have been invited to submit a short digital video file no longer than a minute to be displayed on a continuous loop for 24 hours. From 6th – 21st March a different work will be shown each day, culminating in a series, an episodic event exploring the technical novelty of the loop and its potential to unravel temporal structure. RE-RUN will take place at Banner Repeater and simultaneously online at www.re-run.net.
RE-RUN is an ongoing project curated by Majed Aslam and Fay Nicolson.
Also running for the duration of the exhibition; Nina Power, new writing for Banner Repeater.
Nina Power (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Roehampton University, and lecturer at the Royal College Critical Writing in Art and Design Programme) will be considering how different technologies mediate the experience of writing, reading, and publishing.
When writing her book “One-dimensional Woman” (Zer0 books, 2009), which took a selection of material from her blog http://infinitethought.cinestatic.com/, the specific conditions and form of writing and publishing became apparent, from on-line blogging to traditional print media.
The work will be made available during the exhibition: The Map is the Territory, in a new publication from Banner Repeater, that will be free to take away from the library trolley outside the reading room.
Dr Nina Power is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Roehampton University and also teaches at the Critical Writing in Art Design Programme at the Royal College. She is the author of One-Dimensional Woman (Zer0, 2009) and co-editor of Alain Badiou’s On Beckett (Clinamen), and is interested in independent publishing and reviving certain political forms and genres of writing (the polemic, the pamphlet, the declaration, the address, etc.).
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