digitalisms

If you haven’t seen the Data Poetics show at the Chelsea Market Google offices, I highly recommend it. The show is a good primer on new media art and features some of the better-known proponents of the genre like Mark Napier, Scott Draves and Aaron Koblin.

The show is also hosting several talks with the artists, one of which takes place this Thursday. I’ve already sent in my RSVP and I encourage you to do the same!

Google launches exhibition program with The Project Room for New Media

JUNE 11 (Opening Reception 6-9pm) - AUGUST 13, 2010

EXHIBITION AND ARTIST TALKS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
GUESTS MUST RSVP rsvp@chelseaartmuseum.org

EXHIBITION LOCATION:
Google, Inc.
75 Ninth Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York City

TIME:
Doors open at 5:30pm to view the exhibition. Artists’ talk at 6pm. Event ends at 7:30pm.

SCHEDULE:
Thursday, July 29: Mark Napier and John F. Simon, Jr.
Thursday, August 5: R. Luke DuBois and Scott Draves
Thursday, August 12: W. Bradford Paley and Martin Wattenberg & Fernanda Viegas

From the exhibition website:

Google and The Project Room for New Media at Chelsea Art Museum (CAM) in New York have launched an exhibition program, Digital Art @Google NYC, which will engage Googlers with the art world and promote creativity with digital technology. Data Poetics, opened June 11 with works by well-known international digital artists, Scott Draves, R. Luke DuBois, Aaron Koblin, Mark Napier, W. Bradford Paley, Lincoln Schatz, John F. Simon, Jr., Thomson and Craighead, Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas. The exhibitions and artist talks take place at Google and are open to guests at times announced above.

Digital Art @Google NYC is curated by Nina Colosi, Curator of The Project Room for New Media at CAM and founder of its public art program, Streaming Museum, which presents exhibitions in cyberspace and public spaces on 7 continents. The programs were inspired by pioneer video artist Nam June Paik who in the 1970s envisioned the Internet, predicting an “information superhighway” as an open and free medium for imagination and exchange of cultures.