RTests

"RTests"
Will Pappenheimer

Choate Gallery, Pace University, Pleasantville, New York
November 5- November 21, 2009
Opening Reception: November 5, 2:00-5:00PM
Gallery Hours: Mondays-Wednesdays, 12:00PM-4:00PM
Thursdays, 12:00PM-6:00PM and
Saturdays, 12:00PM-4:00PM

Choate Gallery House
861 Bedford Road
Pleasantville, NY 10570
Phone: 914-773-3673

The Choate Gallery at Pace University presents “RTests” by artist and
Pace Professor, Will Pappenheimer. The show title refers to a
selection of his artworks which feature processes resembling or
following Herman Rorschach’s Psychodiagnostic directives for the
inkblot tests. Using the media of online networks, communications and
data exchange, a system or participatory call is set out to test the
psychological conditions of a situation. The testing ground
includes the intersection of virtual and physical. The situation is
often, but not always, collective. The resulting emotional states are
tied to or pass through the body politic, individual psyche, RSS news
zeitgeist, ecological signs, institutional messaging and media
evolution. As quasi-scientific experiments the prescription, the
process and the results are all equally important to each work.

Collaborations with artists:
John Craig Freeman
Kristin Lucas
Chipp Jansen

Image: http://www.willpap-projects.com/Work_File_Downloads/RTests_Image2.jpg

Will Pappenheimer
Assistant Professor, Digital Art
Pace University, New York
[email protected]
http://www.willpap-projects.com
cell: 347-526-5302