TECHNO-SUBLIME, an exhibition and symposium

TECHNO-SUBLIME
an exhibition and symposium

CU Art Museum, University of Colorado at Boulder
February 4 - March 18, 2005

Curated by Lisa Tamiris Becker
Director, CU Art Museum

Opening Reception, Friday, February, 4,  6 - 8 pm
Related Techno-Sublime Symposium, Saturday, February 5, 10 - 4:30
Rm. N141, Sibell Wolle Fine Arts Building

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The exhibition and symposium TECHNO-SUBLIME will investigate the
enduring art-historical and philosophical notion of "the sublime" in
light of new technology. Featuring works by Mark Amerika, Jeremy
Blake, Jim Campbell, Rochelle Feinstein, Rene Garcia, Ken Goldberg,
Lynn Hershman, Lisa Jevbratt, Gregory Kuhn, Michael Light, Mary
Lucier, Adela Matasova, Wojciech Matusik, Randall Packer, John
Roloff, Anne-Marie Schleiner, and John F. Simon Jr., the exhibition
includes work created in a variety of technologically mediated art
forms ranging from photography to video installation to Net art. The
exhibition examines the contemporary sublime as landscape, the
mathematical sublime, and the sublime as an aesthetic and kinesthetic
exploration of one's own possible annihilation, probing both the
notion of "the sublime" and the "anti-sublime." Works on view range
from Michael Light's horrific yet beautiful photographs of nuclear
bomb tests, to Lynn Hershman's interactive artificial intelligence
piece Agent Ruby 2, in which audiences communicate with a
fictionalized clone from her feature-length film Teknolust*, to the
major collaborative installation by Ken Goldberg, Gregory Kuhn,
Wojcech Matusik, and Randall Packer, in which both sonic and visual
controls are linked to live seismic data. Video and photographic
projects by Mark Amerika, Mary Lucier, Adela Matasova, and John
Roloff, cover topics as varied as Migration, Obliteration, and
Anthroturbation, while Anne-Marie Schleiner and Rene Garcia probe the
political surfaces of the self, the body, the family, and society as
a nexus of the sublime. Lisa Jevbratt and John F. Simon, Jr. manifest
an aesthetic of the mathematical sublime as they develop
computer-mediated artworks that evolve from the complexity of
mathematical, computational and social interactions, both on-line and
off-line. Rochelle Feinstein's manipulated found photographs of
sublime tourist sites challenge conventions and constructions of
sublime beauty, while Jim Campbell's Wave Modulation examines the
sublime essence of perception, vision, and moving image through
modulation of both speed and resolution of an ocean wave. The
exhibition also features Jeremy Blake's acclaimed video piece,
Winchester, which explores the sublime mystery of the notorious
Winchester mansion, melding haunting images of the mansion with
Rorschach-like images of the unconscious.

Lisa Tamiris Becker

Director, CU Art Museum



RELATED TECHNO-SUBLIME SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, February 5, 10 - 4:30
Rm. N141, Sibell Wolle Fine Arts Building

The related symposium will include lectures, discussions and artist
presentations addressing the work on view and the conceptual and
aesthetic issues raised by the exhibition. Symposium participants
include:

Richard Shiff, Art Historian and Art Theorist, Effie Marie Cain
Chair, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at
Austin.

Lynn Hershman, Artist and Professor, University of California at Davis.

Lisa Jevbratt, Artist and Assistant Professor, University of
California at Santa Barbara.

Rene Garcia, Artist

Anne Balsamo, Artist, Theorist, and Professor, University of Southern
California

Mary Lucier, Artist

As well as other special guests.

*Lynn Hershman's film, Teknolust will also be screened as part of the
related symposium at 7 pm on Saturday, February 5, in conjunction
with the International Film Series in Muenzinger Auditorium on the CU
Boulder campus, west of Folsom Stadium on Colorado Ave. A
conversation with the Director, Lynn Hershman will follow the
screening. The screening is free and open to the public.



Acknowledgements:
This exhibition and symposium is made possible in part by the
generous support of the NBT Foundation, the CU Art Museum
Benefactors' Salon, the James and Rebecca Roser visiting artist
grant, the Center for the Humanities and the Arts, and with support
from the CU Boulder Student Arts and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) Fees.
Additional sponsorship in support of the symposium is also generously
provided by Polly and Mark Addison.

The CU Art Museum is located in the Sibell Wolle Fine Arts Building
near Broadway and Euclid, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder,
C0 80309

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