Oct 16: Brooke Singer and Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga at Pace Digital Gallery

Pace Digital Gallery is pleased to host informal evening lectures with new media artists Brooke Singer and Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, followed by a reception for the artists, whose web-based artworks are on view through November 6.

Thursday Oct 16, 6:00pm (lecture); 7:30pm (reception). Room 313, 163 William Street (between Beekman and Ann Streets), New York.
This event is free and open to the public, please join us!

inquiries: jmcdonald2 [at] pace.edu | visit website for more info/bios/map/directions



:: Brooke Singer likes to work with emerging technologies not only because they are fun but also because they are malleable. She is cofounder of the art, technology and activist group, Preemptive Media, and currently Assistant Professor of New Media at Purchase College, State University of New York. She exhibits and lectures internationally, including at The Andy Warhol Museum; The Whitney Museum of American Art; and La Biennale de Montréal. With her collective Preemptive Media, Brooke was awarded the first Social Sculpture Commission by Eyebeam Art and Technology Center and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2005. She has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), and Franklin Furnace.

Brooke Singer's work explores and blurs the borders between science, technology, politics and arts practice. The form may include a web site, video, installation, performance, toolkit, workshop, lecture or combination of these elements. Her projects generally attempt to make the invisible visible (pollution, surveillance, databases) and turn dusty data into dynamic experiences. She views collaboration as a type of microcosm (or beta-testing) for the larger dialogue she hopes her work provokes.



:: Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga is an artist based in Brooklyn and an Associate Professor of Art at The College of New Jersey. He had recent exhibitions at Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City; The National Center for Contemporary Art in St. Petersburg, Russia; Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria; and The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Currently he is a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow and a Tides Foundation Lambent Fellow.

VOTEMOS.US questions how the 2008 United States Presidential Election would differ if all residents of the United States could vote. Currently only citizens registered to vote may participate in the election for the next President. However within the borders of the United States reside nearly 40 million non-citizen residents, permanent residents, most legal, some undocumented, but all are active members of the U.S. economy and society. The artist feels that the majority of these residents would eagerly vote if given the opportunity. VOTEMOS.US presents an online Spanish language portal to the US presidential elections that allows users to register, vote and give their opinion on the US elections.

Mark Napier and Kelly Richardson at Pace Digital Gallery, Sept 18

Pace Digital Gallery is pleased to host an evening lecture with new media artist Mark Napier, followed by a reception for Mark Napier and Kelly Richardson (UK), whose work is on view through Oct 8.

Thursday Sept 18, 6:00pm. Room 313, 163 William Street (between Beekman and Ann Streets), New York.
This event is free and open to the public, please join us!

inquiries: jmcdonald2 at pace.edu | visit website for more info/bios/map/directions



:: Mark Napier explores the excitement and anxiety of this moment in history, as we transition from a world of physical objects to a world dominated by electricity, magnetism and light: the raw materials of digital media. In the Cyclops Series he created a "soft" Empire State Building: a 3D model of the famous skyscraper that appears to soften and melt, writhing almost organically, then struggle to return to it's original form. Inspired by Cubism -- a form that arose during another period of rapid transition -- these artworks combine aspects of painting, sculpture, photography and animation, bringing these forms together to represent an object that is immaterial, ephemeral, almost cloud-like, yet completely durable and real in it's own right.



:: Kelly Richardson's video installations adopt the use of cinematic language to investigate notions of constructed environments and the blurring of the real versus the unreal. She creates contemplative spaces which offer visual metaphors for the sensations associated with the hugely complicated world we have created for ourselves, magnificent and equally dreadful. In Exiles of the Shattered Star, Richardson presents a beautiful countryside showered with what appear to be remnants of another place. Inhabiting a place between fantasy and reality, Exiles of the Shattered Star evokes trepidation and fascination in equal measures.

art talks Sept 10 - Marina Zurkow + Joe McKay

Pace Digital Gallery is pleased to host an evening with 2 new media artists - Marina Zurow and Joe McKay.

Monday Sept 10, 6:30pm. Room 313, 163 William Street (between Beekman and Ann Streets), New York, NY, 10038.
This event is free and open to the public, please join us!
inquiries: jmcdonald2 at pace.edu | click for more info, map, directions


::Marina Zurkow creates animated, psychologically infused narratives, which push cartoons beyond the classic perpendicular screen into physical environments. These have at times been interactive, embedded in objects, embodied as mascots; exhibited on multi-screens, DVD, mobile devices, and as immersive installations. Her investigations into character, nonlinear fictions, site, and audience all use pop languages as a conduit to deeper social engagement. Zurkow is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and currently teaches at NYU.


:: Joe McKay is an artist who makes work with and about digital culture. McKay will discuss his recent works, "Cell Phone Sculptures" and "Sunset Solitaire", on the occasion of "Loss of Signal", a solo show at VertexList Gallery, opening on September 7th. McKay is currently in residence at the Headlands Center For the Arts in San Francisco.