[accelerate] art as game as machine
Show Room Gallery at NAC
Reception + Artist Talks
Saturday 28 March 2015 7PM | DJ Marinko
Featuring work by
Hannah Epstein (Pittsburg/Halifax)
Brian Kent Gotro (Toronto/Vancouver)
William Robinson (Montréal)
Andrew Roth (Niagara)
Curated by
Julia Polyck-O’Neill
21st Century Aesthetics:
the blurring of boundaries between the digital and the real, between algorithms and desire, between capitalism and existence, between video games and visual art forms
how have progress narratives infiltrated consciousness?
how have imposed systems and received ideas become pervasive in our thinking and dreaming? and how can we emancipate ourselves?
is it through subversion, inversion, conversion, immersion, diversion, perversion?
the works included in this exhibition propose new narratives, micro and macro, aesthetic, affective, and conceptual, to illustrate how we might seek to understand our position in the contemporary zeitgeist
[d]igitality is with us. It is that which haunts all the messages, all the signs of our societies. The most concrete form you see it in is that of the test, of the question/answer, of the stimulus/response. All content is neutralized by a continual procedure of directed interrogation, of verdicts and ultimatums to decode (Baudrillard, “The Orders of Simulacra”, 115)
what is art? what is a machine? what is a game?
[accelerate] is art as game as machine.
come play.
