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SUMMARY:Opening • 502 Bad Gateway: Error is Shadow
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening reception of Error is Shadow\, a solo exhibition by artist duo 502 Bad Gateway on Thursday\, August 6 from 6 – 9 PM\, with a brief artist talk at 7 PM. \n\n\n\nError is Shadow explores the legacy of structural and cultural decay\, monuments of shame\, trans-civilizational communication\, and post-human adaptivity. Mankind’s desire to justify its narrative purpose leaves it with only self-referential answers to impossible questions\, building elaborate protocols that favor controllable results over truth. Through a network of paintings\, sculptures\, a narrative film\, and a roguelike deckbuilder game\, the work plays upon the human tendency to create needlessly complex systems when faced with the perilous unknown in an attempt to govern the ungovernable. Error is Shadow adds another forking branch to the wired network of conceptual storytelling that has been the cornerstone of 502 Bad Gateway’s artistic practice.About the Artist \n\n\n\n502 Bad Gateway (@502.bg) is the artist duo of Alexander Baumann and Robert Ruth\, whose collaborative artistic disciplines include motion capture performance\, oil painting\, 3D game development\, sculpture\, vintage tech restoration\, building audio synthesizers\, animation\, and filmmaking. Their practice focuses on integrating their artistic methods with deprecated technologies from many different eras\, drawing on the history of usage to underline the intent of the work. \n\n\n\nTheir work has been displayed in solo exhibitions at T293 gallery in Rome\, Sof:Art gallery in Bologna\, Flux Factory in New York\, and as part of a group show at AROS art museum in Aarhus\, Denmark. They have performed on stages at the New Museum’s DEMO Showcase in Manhattan\, ZeroSpace in Brooklyn\, Standard Vision Studios in Los Angeles\, and many underground New York venues. Their performance practice includes solo audiovisual narrative productions as well as collaborations with Club Cringe\, Von\, Uffie\, Kevin Peter He\, Kink Out\, and Team Rolfes. \n\n\n\nWith a foot in the world of experimental film and live performance\, and the other in fine art and installation\, 502 Bad Gateway desires to break the traditionally static\, immutable nature of gallery work\, by incorporating the real-time responsiveness of interactive live performance. AccessibilityFlux IV is located on the ground floor of 56-21 2nd Street\, Long Island City\, NY 11101 between the Queens Landing Boathouse & Environmental Center and Gotham Point apartments. The closest bus stop is 2 St/55 Ave on the Q101. The closest subway station is Vernon Blvd-Jackson Ave on the 7 line (purple) and 21st st G line (green). The closest ferry pier is Hunter’s Point South Ferry Landing. A Citibike station is located at Center Blvd & Hunters Point South Ferry Landing. iPark (paid parking) is available on 1-20 56th Ave\, Long Island City\, NY 11101. There is a public restroom left of our front door.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/opening-502-bad-gateway-error-is-shadow/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
CATEGORIES:Flux IV,Homepage Events
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SUMMARY:Opening • Itinerant Signal Institute (Rite of Spring)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening reception of Itinerant Signal Institute (Rite of Spring)\, a solo exhibition by Amelia Marzec on Thursday\, August 6 from 6 – 9 PM\, with a brief artist talk at 7 PM. \n\n\n\nItinerant Signal Institute (Rite of Spring) is a fictional institute and installation\, grounded in techno-ecological art. The story of the Institute is told through sculpture\, digital images\, internet art\, microcontrollers\, and scientific displays. In it\, creatures have emerged from the melting permafrost to join the Institute and return to modern-day cities to examine their climates. The creatures wear headdresses of bones and fossils\, inspired by Eastern European carnival costumes that denote the changing of seasons. They acknowledge the effect of human activity on the Arctic Circle\, and anticipate increasing climate migration due to military fuel consumption. The Institute tests for environmental toxins to identify places of relative safety\, through small hand-built quasi-scientific devices that test the air and soil. The work also addresses queer migration\, and re-defining the idea of home in the current political climate. It incorporates plant knowledge to influence the endocrine system\, reducing human desire for late-stage capitalism and war at a biological level. Sites tested by the Institute include former military bases\, including WWII sites in Europe\, and Newtown Creek\, the location of one of the United State’s largest oil spills\, where the artist’s family lived when they emigrated to New York City. The work evolves as the Institute installs servers in partner organizations  as the project moves from place to place.About the Artist \n\n\n\nAmelia Marzec is a New York based artist engaging with communications infrastructure to inform a speculative future. Her work has been exhibited at SIGGRAPH\, MIT\, ISEA (Canada)\, University of the Arts Helsinki (Finland)\, ONCE Foundation Contemporary Art Biennial (Spain)\, NODE Forum for Digital Arts Biennial (Germany)\, and is part of the New Museum’s Rhizome ArtBase. She has been a resident at Eyebeam\, Ox-Bow\, Harvestworks\, and ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics in Berlin. She was a fellow at NYSCA/NYFA\, A.I.R. Gallery\, a Tow Fellow at Columbia University\, a visiting artist at the Center for Integrated Media at Calarts\, a grantee of the Research Foundation of CUNY\, and a nominee for the World Technology Awards for Art. Her work has been featured in Wired\, Make\, Hyperallergic\, Neural Magazine\, Metropolis Magazine\, Creators\, Time Out New York\, and the front page of Reddit. She holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design\, and a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts.AccessibilityFlux IV is located on the ground floor of 56-21 2nd Street\, Long Island City\, NY 11101 between the Queens Landing Boathouse & Environmental Center and Gotham Point apartments. The closest bus stop is 2 St/55 Ave on the Q101. The closest subway station is Vernon Blvd-Jackson Ave on the 7 line (purple) and 21st st G line (green). The closest ferry pier is Hunter’s Point South Ferry Landing. A Citibike station is located at Center Blvd & Hunters Point South Ferry Landing. iPark (paid parking) is available on 1-20 56th Ave\, Long Island City\, NY 11101. There is a public restroom left of our front door.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/opening-itinerant-signal-institute-rite-of-spring/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
CATEGORIES:Flux IV,Homepage Events
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