Airborne opens: April 9- June 4 2005

Transmission II: Airborne
April 9 - June 4, 2005
New Museum of Contemporary Art / Chelsea
556 West 22nd Street

As part of the museum's on-going Transmission series, a platform for artists and scholars working with transmission in the areas of new media, sound, generative audio, and broadcast media, Airborne profiles exciting new projects by New York-based artists.

Artists in the exhibition were selected from an open call for submissions and include 31 Down, Mendi+Keith Obadike, LoVid (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus), Melissa Dubbin and Aaron Davidson, neuroTransmitter, Paul Davies, and Tarikh Korula.

PUBLIC PROGRAM
Wednesday, May 4, 2005 6:30-8PM

Airborne Live: Damian Catera, Joshua Fried and Gregory Whitehead present performances that mix, manipulate, and respond to conventional content broadcast on the radio. The performances will simultaneously be broadcast live on www.free103point9.org radio.


Transmission II: Airborne is organized by Anne Barlow and Defne Ayas in collaboration with free103point9, a non-profit media arts organization focused on establishing and cultivating the genre Transmission Arts.

Media Lounge exhibitions and public programs are supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Jerome Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.


About the New Museum of Contemporary Art

The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977, is the only museum in New York City dedicated exclusively to contemporary art from around the world. Over the last five years, the Museum has exhibited artists from Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Germany, Poland, Spain, South Africa, Turkey, and the United Kingdom among others. The Museum has also mounted ambitious surveys of important but under-recognized artists such as Ana Mendieta, William Kentridge, David Wojnorowicz, and Paul McCarthy. The Museum’s Media Lounge, launched in November 2000, is the only museum space in New York City devoted to presenting new media art. The New Museum formed an affiliation with Rhizome.org, a leading online platform for the global new media art community, in 2003.

In 2005, the New Museum will break ground on a new home at 235 Bowery at Prince Street. This 60,000 square foot facility, designed by the Tokyo-based firm Sejima + Nishizawa/SANAA, will greatly expand the Museum’s exhibitions and programs, and will be the first art museum constructed in Downtown New York in the city’s modern history. For the most up to date information, visit www.newmuseum.org.