The Poetics of Code is an exhibition of artwork by two pioneer contemporary artists – HD Traffic (2009) by John F. Simon, Jr. and Lagoglyphs (2009) by Eduardo Kac. The exhibition is a program of The Project Room for New Media at CAM’s Streaming Museum program which presents exhibitions throughout a network of locations in cyberspace and public space on 7 continents and live at partnering cultural centers. The exhibition will be on view at Chelsea Art Museum though June 19. Go towww.streamingmuseum.org for information on artworks, artist interviews, and location schedules.
Code lies at the core of both works as method of creation and meaning. In HD Traffic, Simon built with software code a Mondrian-inspired work designed to integrate real-time traffic data flow. Piet Mondrian captured the rhythms of New York City in his famous painting Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-1943). His love of jazz and improvisation informed his composition and the geometry of the city streets became the stage for improvisation. Traffic starts with Mondrian’s attitude and sets it in motion. Kac’s series of lagoglyph artworks reference and expand upon the controversial genetically altered Alba, from his bio artwork, GFP Bunny (2000). The series consists of artworks in different media in which Kac creates a visual language and form of writing he describes as “rabbitographic. Lagoglyphs is a real-time parametric animation, silent, color, loopless, with no fixed duration, continuously flowing and reconfiguring, that places emphasis on the generative mutability of writing and the encoded nature of life.
On Display from 05/07/10 - 06/19/10
More Information: www.streamingmuseum.org / www.chelseaartmuseum.org
