“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Marina Zurkow's New Things


Marina Zurkow
WORLD ON A WIRE

bitforms gallery nyc


June 28 - August 3, 2012


Opening Reception: Thursday, June 28, 2012, 6:00 - 8:30 PM

Summer Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

bitforms gallery is pleased to announce a summer group exhibition that features the work of seven artists: Marco Brambilla, Daniel Canogar, Yael Kanarek, Tim Knowles, Mark Napier, Casey Reas, and Marina Zurkow. Borrowing its title from World on a Wire, Rainer Fassbinder's 1973 sci-fi film set in a cybernetics and futurology lab, the exhibition explores behavioral complexity, madness and simulation.

Three projects in the exhibition are New York debuts: Mark Napier's net.flag: ten years of flags, comprised of nearly 23,000 flags created by visitors to the net.flag website; Marina Zurkow's The Thirsty Bird, an animation informed by a residency in Houston; and Marco Brambilla's RPM, a psychological video portrait of a Formula One driver's point-of-view.





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