Aimée Beaubien, Nick Bontrager, Tom Burtonwood, Assaf Evron,
Burton Isenstein, Christopher Meerdo, Rosalie Yu
June 2nd-July 13th, 2018
Artist’s Reception:
Saturday, June 2nd
Noon-5 pm
“In Real Life” is an exhibition of work made by artists concerned with the translation of the physical into the virtual and back again. They are invested in the production of art works and experiences to produce outcomes that probe and examine our relationship to the real and how we perceive it to be. While the pursuit and accordant unraveling of artifice is nothing new the current anxiety surrounding “fake news” and the malaise around what is presented to us as real opens up fertile ground to mine new modes of representation.
Volumetric image capture and reproduction represents an evolutionary moment for photography and other types of technical image making mediums. One that is tied inextricably to the history of the mechanical image but also points to many possible new futures in terms of interaction, and simulation. Central to this shift in types of representation is a set of technologies commonly referred to as 3D scanning.
Quietly and without great fanfare we are seeing image, object and time based media production collapse into singular streams of productive behavior. Scenes and surfaces are being generated from technical apparatus and fabricated without intervention from the hand of the artist. It is within this context that a new form of representation is evolving, a form of volumetric photography, that exists in many different versions congruently – as image, as form, as experience, as data, as transmission, all at once.
Platform Gallery, 904 Sherman Ave, Evanston IL
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday, June 5 12-5 pm
Saturday, June 9 12-4pm
Tuesday, June 12 12-5 pm
Saturday, June 16 12-4 pm
Tuesday, June 19 12-5pm
Saturday, July 7 12-4 pm
and by appointment