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In collaboration with a network of museums and visual arts institutions both national and international, The Chelsea Art Museum seeks to present important, but relatively unexplored dimensions of 20th and 21st Century art, particularly focusing on artists that have been less exposed in the United States than in their home countries.

Perfect View - Jack Toolin

August 5 - September 2, 2010

Opening Reception: August 5, 6-8 pm

The Project Room for New Media at the Chelsea Art Museum is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of experimental geography created
by Jack Toolin/C5. Perfect View is part of the C5 Landscape Initiative,
a suite of four projects that address the perception of landscape in
light of GPS technology. The Perfect View exhibition will feature six
large-scale triptychs, video documentation, expedition artifacts, and
the interactive C5 GPS Media Player.

Perfect View
is a project initiated in a request made to those who participate in
the growing activity of ‘geocaching’ (known as ‘geocachers’) to capture
the beauty, serenity and sublime quality of selected landscapes around
the United States ranging from riverbeds to rocky outcroppings. The
process of geocaching includes placing ‘caches’ in hidden locations to
record the latitude/longitude coordinates, which are publicized on the
web and enabling others to seek out their positions.

The triptychs documenting the sites consist of large-scale photographs,
satellite imagery, and computer-generated renderings. These three
technologies provide for distinctly different ways of representing
topography, which insinuate the viewers experience and interpretation
of the landscape. Video documentation presents interviews with three of
the ‘geocachers’ who contributed sites to the project – their
enthusiasm insights into both the communal aspect of the activity and
the rewards of exploration. The C5 GPS Media Player presents some of
the expedition routes – in the form of GPS tracklogs – from Perfect
View as well as photographic and video documentation associated with
them.