Hello and welcome to the fall season at Postmasters. Following in an
information on our first exhibition.
September 6 - October 11, 2003
EDDO STERN
GodsEye
reception: Saturday, September 6, 6-8 pm
Postmasters Gallery is pleased to present GodsEye, an exhibition of
new works by
Eddo Stern. The show consists of two sections: an installation of
hybridized sculptures incorporating computer hardware, and a digital
video on the Vietnam War. Both address the culture of computer war
games - simulation, historical
fantasy, and nostalgia. This will be the artist's second show at Postmasters.
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GodsEye
Keywords: Tolkien, Christ, Your Empire and Your Desktop
The title GodsEye is borrowed from the computer gaming term God's
eye Perspective which positions the player as God/General/Wizard
floating above the world and awarded total control over cities,
armies and minions.
GodsEye is an installation consisting of four computer sculptures
that make up a techno-/neo-medieval landscape built around the
functional hardware elements of a computer desktop environment:
keyboard, mouse, monitor, tower, etc.
Formally, it draws from the subcultures of custom computer case
modifications, hardware hacking, computer game modification and
sampling.
Crusade - A mechanical windmill desktop spins on its axis looping a
posse of medieval avengers and a MIDI sample of Led Zeppelin's
"Kashmir". (2002)
Fort Paladin [America's Army]- a medieval computer castle automaton
trained to kill and master the infamous Army recruitment training
game. (2003)
Omnivore's Cathedral [Whose Child is this?] - A neo-Christian Karaoke
machine / computer cathedral with kinetic gargoyles that sing along
an empire's theme song. (2003)
USS Dragoon [One God to Rule Them All…And in the Darkness Bind
Them] - An Elvin class computer aircraft carrier prepared for battle
with an on deck army of knights and dragons. (2003)
***********************
Vietnam Romance, 2003 (DVD, TRT 25 min)
Much like Eddo Stern's widely screened Sheik Attack (2000) which was
shown atPostmasters last year, Vietnam
Romance is compiled form the sources available
exclusively on the computer desktop environment - games, graphics and music.
A remix of the Vietnam war experience with a MIDI soundtrack and
computer game clips,Vietnam Romance is a tour of nostalgia for
romantics and deathmatch veterans.
Feel the Nam, the Elephant Grass, the Red Clay, the Cong and the
Rain, Feel the Nam….
A last chance to consider a lesson lost.
***********************
Eddo Stern is an Israeli born artist currently living in Los Angeles.
Later this season his works will be presented at The New Museum of
Contemporary Art in New York and at The Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts in San Francisco. He is a co-founder of the Los Angeles based
cooperative media lab C-level.
C-level's series of live game tournaments and an installation will
be presented by The Kitchen in New York October 9-11 and 15-25,
2003. (http://www.c-level.cc)
***********************
Postmasters Gallery, located in Chelsea at 459 West 19th Street
(corner of 10th Avenue) is open Tuesday through Saturday 11am to 6 pm.
Please contact Magdalena Sawon with questions and image requests.
http://www.postmastersart.com
Eddo Stern exhibition GodsEye opens this Saturday
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Hello and welcome to the fall season at Postmasters. Following in an
information on our first exhibition.
September 6 - October 11, 2003
EDDO STERN
GodsEye
reception: Saturday, September 6, 6-8 pm
Postmasters Gallery is pleased to present GodsEye, an exhibition of
new works by
Eddo Stern. The show consists of two sections: an installation of
hybridized sculptures incorporating computer hardware, and a digital
video on the Vietnam War. Both address the culture of computer war
games - simulation, historical
fantasy, and nostalgia. This will be the artist's second show at Postmasters.
*****************
GodsEye
Keywords: Tolkien, Christ, Your Empire and Your Desktop
The title GodsEye is borrowed from the computer gaming term God's
eye Perspective which positions the player as God/General/Wizard
floating above the world and awarded total control over cities,
armies and minions.
GodsEye is an installation consisting of four computer sculptures
that make up a techno-/neo-medieval landscape built around the
functional hardware elements of a computer desktop environment:
keyboard, mouse, monitor, tower, etc.
Formally, it draws from the subcultures of custom computer case
modifications, hardware hacking, computer game modification and
sampling.
Crusade - A mechanical windmill desktop spins on its axis looping a
posse of medieval avengers and a MIDI sample of Led Zeppelin's
"Kashmir". (2002)
Fort Paladin [America's Army]- a medieval computer castle automaton
trained to kill and master the infamous Army recruitment training
game. (2003)
Omnivore's Cathedral [Whose Child is this?] - A neo-Christian Karaoke
machine / computer cathedral with kinetic gargoyles that sing along
an empire's theme song. (2003)
USS Dragoon [One God to Rule Them All…And in the Darkness Bind
Them] - An Elvin class computer aircraft carrier prepared for battle
with an on deck army of knights and dragons. (2003)
***********************
Vietnam Romance, 2003 (DVD, TRT 25 min)
Much like Eddo Stern's widely screened Sheik Attack (2000) which was
shown atPostmasters last year, Vietnam
Romance is compiled form the sources available
exclusively on the computer desktop environment - games, graphics and music.
A remix of the Vietnam war experience with a MIDI soundtrack and
computer game clips,Vietnam Romance is a tour of nostalgia for
romantics and deathmatch veterans.
Feel the Nam, the Elephant Grass, the Red Clay, the Cong and the
Rain, Feel the Nam….
A last chance to consider a lesson lost.
***********************
Eddo Stern is an Israeli born artist currently living in Los Angeles.
Later this season his works will be presented at The New Museum of
Contemporary Art in New York and at The Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts in San Francisco. He is a co-founder of the Los Angeles based
cooperative media lab C-level.
C-level's series of live game tournaments and an installation will
be presented by The Kitchen in New York October 9-11 and 15-25,
2003. (http://www.c-level.cc)
***********************
Postmasters Gallery, located in Chelsea at 459 West 19th Street
(corner of 10th Avenue) is open Tuesday through Saturday 11am to 6 pm.
Please contact Magdalena Sawon with questions and image requests.
http://www.postmastersart.com
Hello and welcome to the fall season at Postmasters. Following in an
information on our first exhibition.
September 6 - October 11, 2003
EDDO STERN
GodsEye
reception: Saturday, September 6, 6-8 pm
Postmasters Gallery is pleased to present GodsEye, an exhibition of
new works by
Eddo Stern. The show consists of two sections: an installation of
hybridized sculptures incorporating computer hardware, and a digital
video on the Vietnam War. Both address the culture of computer war
games - simulation, historical
fantasy, and nostalgia. This will be the artist's second show at Postmasters.
*****************
GodsEye
Keywords: Tolkien, Christ, Your Empire and Your Desktop
The title GodsEye is borrowed from the computer gaming term God's
eye Perspective which positions the player as God/General/Wizard
floating above the world and awarded total control over cities,
armies and minions.
GodsEye is an installation consisting of four computer sculptures
that make up a techno-/neo-medieval landscape built around the
functional hardware elements of a computer desktop environment:
keyboard, mouse, monitor, tower, etc.
Formally, it draws from the subcultures of custom computer case
modifications, hardware hacking, computer game modification and
sampling.
Crusade - A mechanical windmill desktop spins on its axis looping a
posse of medieval avengers and a MIDI sample of Led Zeppelin's
"Kashmir". (2002)
Fort Paladin [America's Army]- a medieval computer castle automaton
trained to kill and master the infamous Army recruitment training
game. (2003)
Omnivore's Cathedral [Whose Child is this?] - A neo-Christian Karaoke
machine / computer cathedral with kinetic gargoyles that sing along
an empire's theme song. (2003)
USS Dragoon [One God to Rule Them All…And in the Darkness Bind
Them] - An Elvin class computer aircraft carrier prepared for battle
with an on deck army of knights and dragons. (2003)
***********************
Vietnam Romance, 2003 (DVD, TRT 25 min)
Much like Eddo Stern's widely screened Sheik Attack (2000) which was
shown atPostmasters last year, Vietnam
Romance is compiled form the sources available
exclusively on the computer desktop environment - games, graphics and music.
A remix of the Vietnam war experience with a MIDI soundtrack and
computer game clips,Vietnam Romance is a tour of nostalgia for
romantics and deathmatch veterans.
Feel the Nam, the Elephant Grass, the Red Clay, the Cong and the
Rain, Feel the Nam….
A last chance to consider a lesson lost.
***********************
Eddo Stern is an Israeli born artist currently living in Los Angeles.
Later this season his works will be presented at The New Museum of
Contemporary Art in New York and at The Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts in San Francisco. He is a co-founder of the Los Angeles based
cooperative media lab C-level.
C-level's series of live game tournaments and an installation will
be presented by The Kitchen in New York October 9-11 and 15-25,
2003. (http://www.c-level.cc)
***********************
Postmasters Gallery, located in Chelsea at 459 West 19th Street
(corner of 10th Avenue) is open Tuesday through Saturday 11am to 6 pm.
Please contact Magdalena Sawon with questions and image requests.
http://www.postmastersart.com