jihui Digital Salon presents John Klima -- Tues. May 17, 7 PM

jihui Digital Salon presents
John Klima

Tues., May 17, 2005 @ 7:00 pm
jihui - Digital Salon
Parsons Design Lab
55 West 13th Street, 9th Fl.
New York, NY 10011
http://agent.netart-init.org


John Klima employs a variety of technologies to produce artwork from electronics and computer hardware and software. Consistently connecting the virtual to the real, Klima builds large scale electro-mechanical installations driven by 3D game software he programs from scratch. The virtual computer imagery mirrors and extends the potential and agency of the physical components to produce cohesive worlds that are both humorous and sinister.

Klima will give a brief survey of his works and discuss his recent projects "Train," a hyper-narrative taking place on an HO scale railroad, which was exhibited in December 2003 at Postmasters Gallery in New York, in April 2005 at the DeCordova Museum in Boston, and will become part of the permanent collection of the Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo in Badajoz, Spain, in September 2005; "Terrain Machine," a large matrix of 225 electro-mechanical actuators that create a projection surface in order to match a 3D image / dataset in real time; and "Rapunsel," a game project designed to help teach computer programming to junior high school girls, which he is working on with Mary Flanagan and Ken Perlin at the Media Research Lab of NYU.

John Klima has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. His work was shown in the exhibition BitStreams at the Whitney Museum of American Art as well as the 2002 Whitney Biennial. He has also exhibited at Eyebeam; The New Museum of Contemporary Art; PS.1; and The Brooklyn Museum of Art. His international exhibitions include The Museum for Communication in Bern, Switzerland; the NTT InterCommunication Center in Tokyo, Japan; The Daejeon Municipal Museum in Korea, and numerous international festivals. Klima is currently a research scientist in the Mathematics Department at New York University, and Adjunct Professor of Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design.


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