Analogous Projects presents digital emergence and social-interaction analogues
Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 8:29 PM Devotion's resident nonprofit, Analogous Projects, continues their yearly curatorial programing next week with the opening of Digital Intelligence & Analogous Interactions, taking place as part of the International Computer Music Conference 2010.
The included audiovisual installations and performative social activities present evolutionary- and generative-art as a tool for social sculpture and immersive gaming. In addition, an ICMC AI concert will take place on May 31st at Issue Project Room as a preface to the exhibition. Together, these ICMC AI events draw inspiration from performative ecologies, musical improvisation, reality-based games, social experiments, neural networks, and swarm-optimization.
With committee-selected ICMC AI works by Brett Balogh (Chora), Scott Mc Laughlin (Shoals), and Steve Bull + Scot Gresham-Lancaster (Cellphonia), as well as additional complexity-driven works by Nick Lesley (Epic Doom) and Philip Galanter (RGBCA).
The preexhibition concert will feature committee-selected works by Arne Eigenfeldt (In Equilibrio), Jon Weinel (Entoptic Phenomena), Will Orzo (Giraffe).
EXHIBITION: Opens 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010. Through Sunday, June 13th.
At Devotion Gallery, 54 Maujer Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11206. L to Lorimer, G to Metropolitan.
PERFORMANCE: At 8:00 p.m., Monday May 31st, 2010.
At Issue Project Room, 232 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11215. M/R to Union.
OPENING FLYER: http://www.AnalogousProjects.org/storage/project-pages/DigitalIntelligenceAnalogousInteractions.jpg
PRESS RELEASE: http://www.AnalogousProjects.org/storage/diai-PressRelease.pdf
MEDIA RELEASE: http://www.AnalogousProjects.org/storage/diai-MediaRelease.pdf
FULL PRESS KIT: http://www.AnalogousProjects.org/storage/DiAiPressKit.zip
CONTACT: Marie Evelyn at Marie@AnalogousProjects.org
About Analogous Projects:
Complexity theory is not new to art or to our culture. It migrated from computer science and biology to economics and art and, with the advent of the world wide web, it invaded our collective subconscious. Analogous seeks to support complexity-driven art and artists playing under this conceptual umbrella of "Interaction Art". Progress occurs by metaphor and analogy: Their hope is (by bringing together people and projects irrespective of media and genre) to enable philosophical crosstalk.
Analogous events and performances have been reviewed in The Wire, Make Magazine, Time Out New York, and The Village Voice. They received a Village Voice Best-of-NYC Award in October 2008 for "Best Arts Organization Centered Around Recycling". For more information about Analogous and current Analogous projects, visit http://AnalogousProjects.org.
Analogous Projects is the Resident Not-for-Profit at Devotion Gallery.
