Gen.R.8
CURATED BY LEA REKOW

February 6 – March 20, 2004

RECEPTION FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 6-9PM

Private jam by invitation 6-7PM  [open to public 7-9pm]
[Second Performance March 11th open to public]

Gigantic ArtSpace is proud to present Gen.R.8, a group exhibition exploring generative processes in artistic production.  Duplication, replication, and simulacrum are explored through print, video, film, music, painting, robotics, cloning, and sound composition machines.  Gen.R.8 is a peek through the lens of continual, conceptual fusion. The "DNA" of this work is modified, distorted, and in some cases rendered completely irrelevant.  An exhibition catalogue will be available.

LEMUR: A group of artists and technologists present a “band” of robotic musical instruments that play themselves, driven by generative software and algorithmically generated improvisation.

LEE RANALDO: Musician and visual artist, is an original member of the group Sonic Youth.  Lee has written the composition for the LEMUR instrument, “GuitarBot”, and presents Madonna Generation, a print project.

ANDREA POLLI: Installation and digital print series The Fly's Eye, tracks live movement with light analysis to create deconstruction of the video image.

NATALIE JEREMIJENKO: Clones from the OneTrees project; tree(s) micro-propagated in culture, will be monitored for growth differences.  A pack of feral data tracker dogs: Sniffers, will also be roaming the gallery.   Sniffer is a store-bought toy robotic dog, modified to hunt for environmental toxins.

BILL MORRISON: Decasia’s decomposing film stock creates tension between the stained, eroded, unstable surface and the fragile nature of that which was once photographically represented.

DJ OLIVE:  Referential components of sound samples exemplify the inherent haziness existing between the boundaries of “biting” and remixing.

KEN MONTGOMERY:  Lamination Ritual is a participatory activity and listening experience which stimulates the mind and body in-the-moment, producing an original, tangible, transformed object which will last... almost forever.

LAURA KURGAN:  Commissioned and manipulated high resolution commerical/declassified satellite images inhabits the space and politics of new digital spatial technologies and databases.

STEVE REICH:  Speech recordings generate the musical material in Early Works.

CAROL WARNER:  Commercially produced images are subjected to both additive and subtractive processes to scramble familiar visual information.

IBRAHIM QURAISHI:  Anamorphose is an ambient narrative of multiplication, duplication and digital manipulation.

DAVID LEE MYERS:  Specialized circuitry and electronic systems produce "Feedback Music".  Images are then produced from oscilloscope traces of the Feedback sounds.

GREG DEOCAMPO: Remixes a synthesis of a mathematical model of the Big Bang hum and solar flare from space probe Cassini. 

PAUL D. MILLER AKA DJ SPOOKY THAT SUBLIMINAL KID: A limited edition of logarithmical musical patterns from different cultures.

LEA REKOW is curator and founding director of Gigantic ArtSpace.