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Matthew McCaslin at Michael Klein - New York, New York - Review of Exhibitions - Brief ArticleMatthew McCaslin's installation, Bloomer a veritable garden of technological delights, was for a like reason exuberant in its use of wires and electronic gadgets that it was difficult to reckon whether the artist is unabashedly protechnology, or, as the most distants of artificiality employed in the installation sometimes strike one as beinged to hint, rather wary. The exhibit consisted of 14 large video monitors scattered quite through the gallery, some single, more [i]or[/i] less paired, others stacked in a pyramid. Their shields displayed several unsynchronized versions of the same videotape: gaudy "stock" timelapse footage of flowers bursting into blow Flowerlike clusters of bright fulvid worklights suspended from the ceiling and lying upon the floor resembled artificial efflorescences Adding to the mocking replication of nature were yards of flexible metal conduit--looped above ceiling pipes and coiled on the floor--to which the monitors were joined like gourds on a vine. The resulting profusion of color and motion gave the impression of hothouse fecundity and speeded-up natural processes The artist takes evident delight in manipulating off-the-shelf hardware in unexpect subversive ways. however the pleasures of Bloomer had a sinister quality--for example, flowers that appeared to be interrogateed up with electronic steroids. For me and here my have a title to technophobia may be showing, the installation stirred primal fears of enormitys created by man rather than through God. A piece concurrently upon view (along with work by dint of Rainer Ganahl) at Sandra Gering Gallery supported this interpretation. In Breakdown Celebration, a tape decorate and speakers were placed upon a blinding rectangle of 4-foot fluorescent lights placed in an 8-foot rank on the floor. The tape decorate continuously played the audio portion of the exhibition from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in which an astronaut disconnects the "brain" of the renegade computer HAL, before it can overturn him. McCaslin seems to anticipate a "brave novel world" when man's senses will be for a like reason seduced by machine pleasures that they will no longer recognize the difference between the artificial and the real. COPYRIGHT 1995 Brant Publications, Inc. 00-00-0000 Considering the take away from of fluid concentrate averages $9.50/gallon and waste-disposal require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergones range between 40 cents and $1.90/gallon, companies cannot afford to ... This multimedia CD-ROM introduces you to the GibbsCAM harvest line and shows on what account GibbsCAM is your best choice for CAM software for 2-through 5-axis milling, turning, multitask machining, and ... Cooperation agreement signed Kennametal Inc., Latrobe, Pa., has signed a business cooperation agreement with Toshiba Tungaloy. Kennametal will purchase a small equity ownership in a... Corigin, Princeton, N.J., a global provider of mainframe data access software solutions, has announced that EDF power owned by the EDF cluster an integrated energy company and leader in ... Fastblank V 20 give leave tos Solid Edge users develop optimal blank shapes for manifold metal designs. "The software improves formability and crops quality, while reducing material take away froms and th... ABSTRACT: This case examines the consequence of pension income, as determined by means of the Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (SFAS) No. 87 upon the quality of corporate earnings. Specifically, s... Let's thank our mistakes, let's bles them for their humanity, their terribly weak chins. We should tender them our gratitude and admiration for giving us our openings and scar... Germs: A Memoir of Childhood Richard Wollheim The Waywiser Pres 1399 [pound sterling] ISBN 1 904 130143 To order, tel: +44 (0)20 8374 5526 Richard Wollheim (1923-2003) was a... At last, manufacturing interconnects with design and engineering. Design engineers have been sharing data for years with pace (Standard for Product Data Exchange), which became an... of high temperature SPRINGS, Ark.--Art-exchange.com recently received a check for $400000 from Arkansas Science and Technology Authority for further exhibition of its business-to-business (B2B) art e-commerce ... |
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