JEFF GOMPERTZ / FAKESHOP: PROJECTS FOR 3 ASIAN CITIES

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> From: Esther McGowan <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri Aug 1, 2003 3:25:42 PM US/Eastern
> To:
> Subject: Please Join Us!
>
> ARTS INTERNATIONAL presents a World New Media Blender Event &
> Exhibition
>
> JEFF GOMPERTZ / FAKESHOP: PROJECTS FOR 3 ASIAN CITIES
>
> Opening Reception & Artist Presentation: August 7, 2003 7pm - 9pm
>
> Gallery Hours: August 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21 1pm - 4pm
>
> Arts International Gallery
> 251 Park Avenue South, Fifth Floor
> Corner of E. 20th Street & Park Avenue South
> RSVP: (212) 674-9744, Ext. 218
>
> Click here for on-line press release, including images and more
> information:
> http://artsinternational.org/whats_new/gompertz.htm
>
> Combining Net technologies with traditional tools of multi-media
> production,
> Jeff Gompertz has been creating web specific installations and
> installation
> specific websites since 1995. Built around contemporary themes, these
> projects incorporate architectural, digital video/imaging, net
> broadcasting,
> audio and performance. Since the founding of the artist collective
> Fakeshop
> (www.fakeshop.com) in 1997, his production methods have included
> bringing
> these elements to work in collaborative projects. Winner of a
> Pollock-Krasner award and exhibited at the Whitney Museum, Deitch
> Projects,
> Eyebeam, Franklin Furnace, and Gavin Brown, among many other galleries
> and
> museums internationally, Gompertz is perhaps best known for his
> interactive
> Japanese capsule hotel projects, installed at The Kitchen in 2001 and
> included in the Cooper Hewitt Museum's New Hotels for Global Nomads
> exhibition in 2003.
>
> At Arts International, Gompertz will make a presentation of works
> currently
> in progress/proposal form to be realized at architectural sites in
> three
> Asian cities: the Hanoi Army Museum in Hanoi, Vietnam; the skeleton
> buildings of downtown Bangkok, Thailand; and the Russian Cultural
> Center/Gem
> Mining Company in Vientianne, Laos. Combining elements of
> installation,
> digital imaging, video-conferencing, and web-design to create
> "architectural
> interventions" at each site, the projects will also include
> collaborations
> with local artists and performers to explore the social, political, and
> historical context of each chosen site. The presentation at Arts
> International will also include media documentation of the
> award-winning
> capsule hotel project already completed with the cooperation of
> owner/operators of capsule hotels in Osaka and Tokyo, Japan, made
> possible
> with help from the Japan Foundation, Franklin Furnace and the
> Cooper-Hewitt
> Museum. On the afternoon of August 7th, Gompertz and architect Jose
> Salinas will preview these three new proposals in a mixed-media format.
>