
Economics and The Immaterial Exhibition
How do we give value to immaterial goods? How do we buy and sell digital images? What is the relationship between economics and digital aesthetics? How can curators and artists create new platforms and models for the creation of economic exchange? These are some of the questions that this show attempts to answer. We are currently accepting artwork (video, jpg, gifs, 3d models or HTML content) that will feature in a unique gallery-based exhibition. The exhibition is composed of two parts – a gallery-sited virtual show, and the online production and distribution of materially-realised limited-edition goods.
Rua Red
Preview May 24 6 – 9 pm
Show runs May 25 – July 13
Artists:
Lorna Mills Rollin Leonard Rich Oglesby Emilio Gomariz Benjamin Gaulon Emilie Gervais, Eu Tech Nik / Andrew Healy / Sascha Pohflepp + LINDA KOSTOWSKI /Geraldine Juárez / Raquel Meyers / ALAIN VONCK / DANIEL ROURKE + ALEX MYERS / JONAS LUND / Addie Wagenknecht + PABLO GARCIA / Andreas Nicolas Fischer / PINAR + VIOLA / CHIARA PASSA / REED + RADER / FRANCOISE GAMMA / YOSHI SODEOKA
GERALDINE JUAREZ – SOME PEOPLE JUST WANT TO SEE THE MARKET CRASH
By Maria Gry Bregnbak, curator
When you think about it, it’s funny how the highly complex mechanisms of the market are always represented by the simplest possible image: A horizon; a simple line separating the earth from the sky.”
For her first solo show in Copenhagen, Geraldine Juarez is taking on the stock market. The well-known zigzag lines representing the movements on stock market indexes such as the NASDAQ, Dow Jones or the CAC40 are at the core of Geraldine Juarez’ work for the current exhibition.
“When the stock market crashed in 2008, we were all talking about it even though no one really understood what they were talking about. In that way, the market is very esoteric.”
The esoteric quality of the financial market renders it somewhat cultish with its weight on the world, its interpreters like high priests and its temples on Wall Street. Geraldine Juarez’ works for the current exhibition play into the cult-like nature of the stock market by mirroring the fundamental value behind financial transactions and its symbols, i.e. gold. The gilded 3D prints of various stocks and equity prices become pieces of pop culture jewellery as does the elegant gold and mirror representation of the 2010 flash crash – the fastest stock market crash to date, where the market crashed in seconds only to recover its losses minutes later.
Celebrating five years of thug life, pop culture, and R&D, the renegade art organization known as the Free Art & Technology Lab, or F.A.T. Lab, is going GOLD. F.A.T. GOLD, that is. From November 5–17 at Eyebeam Art & Technology Center in Chelsea, curator Lindsay Howard will present the acclaimed work of F.A.T. Lab. The exhibition invites the public to experience and engage with groundbreaking projects.
F.A.T. GOLD brings together an international group of twenty-five collaborators comprised of graffiti artists, hackers, and coders for a week-long residency at Eyebeam. The exhibition will feature significant works from 2007 to the present, including new projects launching on opening night. Showcasing a comprehensive and critical selection of the group’s diverse output, the exhibition includes film, software, net art, installation, and performance.F.A.T. Lab members will also be working and hacking on new cutting-edge projects to be added to the exhibition on the fly.
F.A.T. upcoming events include lots of workshops, lots of free beer, free pizza, new code, PUBLIC ACCESS, Your ART!! – series on- & offline, Rights, Rogues and Refugees plus fresh new art and performances by F.A.T Fellows.
Check our GOLD microsite for schedule, live events, announcements and to get in style with our new super hot swag.
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