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exhibition & SRL performance @ POST [7/6]



Exhibition information for POST at 1904 East 7th Place, Los Angeles, CA 
90021.

Exhibition: e-motion
Curator: Susan Joyce
Exhibition Dates: July 6 - August 3, 2002

Regular Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 12:00 noon - 6 PM

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 6, 7:00 - 10:00 PM
SRL performance @ 9:30PM

POST is pleased to present e-motion featuring new media; motion based 
works by Kent Anderson Butler, Casey Hanrahan, Kristine Marx, Yucef 
Merhi, Mark Pauline, Erwin Redl, and James Rouvelle.

Since the invention of motion pictures a century ago, artists have 
been experimenting in innovative ways, exploring the possibilities of 
art and technology.  Electronic culture has expanded the world of 
visual art. The works in this exhibition represent the use of 
technology in creative and meaningful applications.  In concert with 
artistic expression, these artists employ diverse disciplines such as 
light, sound, video, performance, language, and engineering.  Ideas 
are transformed into visceral experiences, all in some way engage in 
the activity of motion, and in some instances interaction between the 
works occur.  We are just beginning to scratch the surface on 
understanding the potential of technology and its relationship to 
contemporary art.  With the assimilation of machine to technology, 
cultural transformations take place.  The evolution of electronic 
culture is a change in the dynamics of society, representation and 
experience.

Kent Anderson Butler - performance/video installation "Immersion" is 
an investigation of the union between two people and represents the 
process of ritual and spiritual experience.

Casey Hanrahan -Using materials such as aluminum, steel, and rivets, 
the artist employs systems of mathematics and design to construct 
optical meditative drawings for the purpose of targets.

Kristine Marx - video installation depicts situations that are both
intimate and impersonal.  The banal is experienced as a spatially 
disorienting and isolating event.  The work draws attention to the 
elastic, permeable boundary between self and other, interior and 
exterior, reality and illusion.

Yucef Merhi - Poetic Words is a work constituted by 4 light emitting 
spinning devices.  When people interact with these machines they will 
see a word, created by combining two words, related to a social, 
philosophical or political issue, like Anorecstasy (Anorexia - 
Ecstasy).  In Artistotelian terms, the words always exist in potency 
but become poetry in motion when
the spectators spin the object and feel/interpret the content.  Most 
recent net-poetry project of Merhi can be experienced at
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/yucef.

Mark Pauline - Survival Research Laboratories videos of machine
experiments and performances.  SRL was conceived and founded by Mark 
Pauline in 1978 as an organization of creative technicians dedicated 
to redirecting the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, 
science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in 
practicality, product or warfare. SRL has staged over 50 mechanized 
performances in the United States and Europe that consist of a unique 
set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special 
effects devices, employed in developing themes of socio-political 
satire.  Humans are present only as audience or operators.
http://www.srl.org

Erwin Redl - elevator shaft light installation.  In this body of 
work, space is experienced as a second skin, our social skin, which 
is transformed through artistic intervention. Due to the very nature 
of its architectural dimension, participating by simply being 
"present" is an integral part of the installation.  Visual perception 
has to work in conjunction with corporeal motion, and the passage of 
time, an additional parameter of motion.  Redl's light installation 
was recently featured at the 2002 Whitney Biennial.

James Rouvelle - interactive sound robotics.  Robots are sensitive to 
changes in light and sound.  A blue LED at the tip of each responds 
to its environment by either illuminating, holding, or dimming at 
various speeds. Each robot attempts to locate others by emitting, 
sensing, and responding to a sound similar to sonar.  Movement by 
visitors in the space creates an additional dimension of 
interactivity.
Kent Anderson Butler - performance/video installation "Immersion" is 
an investigation of the union between two people and represents the 
process of ritual and spiritual experience.

Casey Hanrahan -Using materials such as aluminum, steel, and rivets, 
the artist employs systems of mathematics and design to construct 
optical meditative drawings for the purpose of targets.

Kristine Marx - video installation depicts situations that are both
intimate and impersonal.  The banal is experienced as a spatially 
disorienting and isolating event.  The work draws attention to the 
elastic, permeable boundary between self and other, interior and 
exterior, reality and illusion.

Yucef Merhi - Poetic Words is a work constituted by 4 light emitting 
spinning devices.  When people interact with these machines they will 
see a word, created by combining two words, related to a social, 
philosophical or political issue, like Anorecstasy (Anorexia - 
Ecstasy).  In Artistotelian terms, the words always exist in potency 
but become poetry in motion when
the spectators spin the object and feel/interpret the content.  Most 
recent net-poetry project of Merhi can be experienced at
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/yucef.

Mark Pauline - Survival Research Laboratories videos of machine
experiments and performances.  SRL was conceived and founded by Mark 
Pauline in 1978 as an organization of creative technicians dedicated 
to redirecting the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, 
science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in 
practicality, product or warfare.SRL has staged over 50 mechanized 
performances in the United States and Europe that consist of a unique 
set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special 
effects devices, employed in developing themes of socio-political 
satire.  Humans are present only as audience or operators.
http://www.srl.org

Erwin Redl - elevator shaft light installation.  In this body of 
work, space is experienced as a second skin, our social skin, which 
is transformed through artistic intervention. Due to the very nature 
of its architectural dimension, participating by simply being 
"present" is an integral part of the installation.  Visual perception 
has to work in conjunction with corporeal motion, and the passage of 
time, an additional parameter of motion.  Redl's light installation 
was recently featured at the 2002 Whitney Biennial.

James Rouvelle - interactive sound robotics.  Robots are sensitive to 
changes in light and sound.  A blue LED at the tip of each responds 
to its environment by either illuminating, holding, or dimming at 
various speeds. Each robot attempts to locate others by emitting, 
sensing, and responding to a sound similar to sonar.  Movement by 
visitors in the space creates an additional dimension of 
interactivity.