Monday, March 05, 2012

"Anonymous vs. Siri _Anonymous Message to the People, Battle Over Anonymity" by [dNASAb]

"Anonymous vs. Siri _Anonymous Message to the People, Battle Over Anonymity" by [dNASAb]



Anonymous has carefully crafted an aesthetic that surrounds their message. I have absorbed the aesthetic and manipulated it. In an attempt to enhance their aesthetic I created several unique video sculptures to incorporate into the film. The film also incorporates video projection mapping, video optics, video sculptures embedded with infrared surveillance cameras, CCTV system, LCD screens, and L.E.D's. I envision the exhibition of this project as an immersive multi-channel video installation.

Anonymous, Message to the American People "You are being Surveillanced" March1st 2012

"Anonymous,Message to the American People "You are being Surveillanced" March, 1st 2012



I am not a Hacktivist, but rather an artist. I believe the responsibility of great art is to raise more questions than answers. This video art series is an attempt to broaden the dialog surrounding the beliefs and methods of the group Anonymous; and the intersection of our own personal freedoms, private vs. public information, and the future of Neutrality on the Internet. This video was specifically uploaded and distributed via the internet on March 1st 2012, the exact day that Google launches its new Privacy policy, allowing them to harvest and sell more of your private data. Again, in an effort to raise questions surrounding how, why and to what extent is your personal data is being mined.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

[dNASAb] is participating in a panel discussion at The New School, Eugene Lang College,NYC

[dNASAb] is participating in a panel discussion "Realizing an artistic concept with the use of Technology" at The New School, Eugene Lang College,NYC moderated by John Ensor Parker, and featuring guest artists Jason Krugman, dNASAb, Pat Lay and Nurit Bar-Shai, on Thursday October 27, 6-7 pm at The New School, Eugene Lang College,65 West 11th street.

Monday, October 03, 2011

[dNASAb] "Aesthetics of Decay; Design for Dying Electronics #3" 2011



"Aesthetics of Decay; Design for Dying Electronics #3" 2011, 1080p HD Video, edition of 5 + 2AP
1 min. exerpt of large multi-channel video installation.
[dNASAb]/Frederieke Taylor Gallery


This HD Video comments on the lifespan of current consumer electronics, and the inevitability of their deaths. I engage in the destruction of screens in the studio, the broken screens and the inherent designs created by the organic nature of the cracks have been photographed, studied and have influenced the aesthetics of the video. By mapping video into the broken areas and juxtaposing multiple videos within the design, a glitching video has been created. In the action of playing this video on your iPad ,computer screen or HD tv screen, you are virtually rendering your own screen broken. The dichotomy of the ever newer screen playing HD content that turns your new screen into a dying screen highlights the inevitability of the death of your own hardware. While simultaneously revealing the beauty of the decay and death of electronics and questioning the lifespan of display screens. The video actually ends with the destruction of the screen.

[dNASAb] 2011

[dNASAb] exhibits in "Haywire" at Storefront Gallery

HAYWIRE:
an exhibition exploring the idea of the off-kilter, the psychedelic, and the zany lurking below the surface of everyday reality. Featuring the work of Leslie Alexander, Maria Calandra, Elisabeth Condon, [dNASAb], Francesco Longenecker, and Mary Jones.

and in the back room
DRAWN:
new works by Elizabeth Berdann, Holly Coulis, Cynthia Hartling, and Kate Teale.

STOREFRONT Gallery.The show opens with a reception on Friday, September 30 from 7-10PM and will be on view through October 23. For more information, contact Jason Andrew at 646-361-8512 or visit
www.storefrontbk.com


"From the Wall," a painting by Mary Jones featured in HAYWIRE

Saturday, April 23, 2011

[dNASAb] "Dataklysmos": Multidimensional Sculptures April 30 - June 4, 2011 at Irvine Contemporary, Washingto D.C

[dNASAb]
Dataklysmos: Multidimensional Sculptures

April 30 - June 4, 2011
Opening Reception with the Artist: Saturday, April 30, 6-8PM

Irvine Contemporary is pleased to announce Dataklysmos, an exhibition of new multimedia sculptures by [dNASAb]. [dNASAb] is a Brooklyn-based artist who constructs complex, multidimensional works that visualize the world of data and the materiality of digital technology in new ways. In the age of hybrid media, the artist has created a name as an acronym for "Disney-NASA-Borg," and works in multidimensional sculptures as a deconstruction of what he sees as the "Disneyfication" of our post-digital imagination. This turn is exemplified in our acceptance of Toy Stories versions of the reality in and behind our daily technology consumables. Dataklysmos presents another visualization of our datasphere in the context of Washington, DC, a region that is home to firms that manage Internet architecture and provide major connecting nodes for global Internet data traffic.

The works by [dNASAb] present the question "what if we could reimagine the datasphere in all its materiality, open the black boxes, watch what happens at light speed behind our computer screens, expose the tangled wires, naked circuit boards, and bare hardware in a machine erotics, the secret life behind the screens." Like a scene from William Gibson's influential novel, Neuromancer, we find the contradictions of an imagined digital utopia dependent on hacked-together machines terminating in messy, unreliable human wetware.
[dNASAb]'s luminous complexity models work to expose the hidden density of sheer material stuff that feeds our media and computer devices. Our media technologies present themselves in conflicting material forms: on one side we have the sleek, thin, flat-panel, high-res screens of all sizes, the intentional black boxes of the iPhone/iPad, and the metal and plastic hinges of laptops that close with a neat codex clasp. On the other, we have the messy tangle of parts and wires visible inside a broken PC or TV, and the rat's nest of cables, wires, Wi-Fi routers, AC adapters, and extension cords behind every desk and and living room entertainment unit. Behind it all are overwhelming flows of data, information, and signals that we keep mainly invisible, cables snaking through the walls to the neat wall jack in our office or living room or devices working wirelessly and dependent on invisible radio waves.
The metaphors we use for data conduits are telling: optical glass fibers as waveguides, light pipes, electronic pulses converted into the clarity of pure light. Our computer screens, mobile phones, HD TV screens, iPads, are all back-ended with long-haul optical fiber networks that carry dematerialized signals to the resubstantiated material connections of our physical displays. Or so we imagine. Ghosts in the machine. [dNASAb] gives the invisible technologies a new aesthetic rematerialization, taking .
In recent theory about being human in the digital network era, our bodies and organs have become convertible "prostheses," extensions as interfaces between the organic and cybernetic: we function as terminals or projections of dataworlds and entertainment spectacles, digital devices in our hands and ears, and screens in all sizes always within eyeshot everywhere we are. Some of [dNASAb]'s works and videos visualize a posthuman body where we have become human projectors and terminals for the digital domain. We act as agents activating a network and as terminal points in a global infosphere, but are unaware of the material conduits of datastreams surging at light speed underground, through floors and walls, and converting themselves into radio waves that terminate in the devices we touch, hold, view, and carry.
[dNASAb] draws from several art historical and conceptual sources from Nam Jun Paik to recent digital media art. He draws from Paik's television sculptures, installations, and video projections and Paik's strategies to expose the fetishizing of the screen and television as a presence in lived space. His works can be compared with Julie Mehertu's large-scale paintings of global networks, cities, and connecting infrastructures and with Matthew Ritchie's paintings and sculptures.
About the artist
[dNASAb] has a BFA in Sculpture and Mixed Media from Florida State University, and participated in the International Summer Residency at the Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY (2006), where he worked with the “Wobulator,” Nam Jun Paik’s pioneering video synthesizer. In 2010, [dNASAb] was awarded a scholarship at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York, and an Artist's Residency at the Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, New York. He was recently an Artist Honoree at the BRIC Contemporary Art Gala, 2010, "Brooklyn Art:Work". [dNASAb] has exhibited widely in the past ten years, including exhibitions in New York, Moscow, Basel, Switzerland, Seoul, South Korea, and Paris. He produced a solo installation of new works at Volta, New York (March, 2011), and a solo exhibition in New York with Frederieke Taylor Gallery (2010). He is featured on the MoMA-P.S.1 "Studio Visit" site. He presented his work in the "Contemporary Art + Social Media" lecture at Art Salon, Art Basel-Miami Beach (2009) [view video]. [dNASAb] will have a solo exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image, NY, next year. The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Friday, February 25, 2011

http://ny.voltashow.com/dNASAb.6620.0.html
[dNASAb] will participate in the next edition of VOLTA NY which will take place from Thursday, March 3 - Sunday, March 6, 2011.
VOLTA NY is an invitational show of solo artists’ projects and is the American incarnation of the successful young fair founded in Basel in 2005. VOLTA NY was conceived by art critic and fair director Amanda Coulson to continue the original mandate of a tightly-focused, boutique event that is a place for discovery. Both Basel and New York fairs provide a showcase for current art production and relevant contemporary positions regardless of the artist or gallery’s age.
By putting the focus back on artists through exclusively featuring solo projects, VOLTA NY promotes a deep exploration of the work of its selected projects, an opportunity for discoveries that move beyond those afforded by a traditional art fair. While many fairs provide a broader overview, with more represented artists in each booth, visitors to VOLTA NY compare the experience to a more focused series of intense studio visits.
A platform for challenging, often complimentary, sometimes competing ideas about contemporary art, the strictly solo format is what gives the New York fair its unique character.
“dataclysmic_MemoryObscuraMobilaria" 2010
LED’s, aluminum,resin, phosphorescent silicon, plastic, fiber optics, acrylic, dimensions variable

Friday, November 19, 2010

"SCIENCE FICTION": a group exhibition at the STOREFRONT gallery

Proud to be representing Bushwick in this group show that opens tonight "SCIENCE FICTION": a group exhibition featuring new work by Nancy Bowen,[dNASAb], Ben Godward. Meg Hitchcock, Jeff Hoppa, Linda Herritt,Marjorie Van Cura, and Letha Wilson. at the STOREFRONT gallery http://www.storefrontbk.com/exhibitions.html

This is an image of the piece I am exhibiting for "Science Fiction", a small free-hanging sculpture, from the series "dataclysmic", Opens at STOREFRONT gallery, tonight, 11.19.2010

“dataclysmic_FIOSprototype" 2010
LED’s, aluminuml,resin, phosphorescent silicon, plastic, fiber optics, acrylic, dimensions variable

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Guggenheim/Youtube Creative Video Biennial "Play" submission by [dNASAb]



"Projecteurs de l'Homme" ("Human Projectors") 2010
HD Video, edition of 5 + 2 AP, 2.07 mins.
Guggenheim/Youtube Creative Video Biennial "Play" submission by [dNASAb]

Via the use of evolving technologies, we are projecting ourselves into a virtual, digital domain. It's a pivotal time in human creative history. We are evolving from merely consuming content to actually creating content. We are building our avatars, and online identities, broadcasting our lives, transmitting our gps coordinates, tweeting our thoughts, and uploading glimpses into the way we want our lives to be perceived by others.

We are also living a larger majority of our lives online, in the info-sphere. Many of us have more daily interactions with humans via technology than real-life human interactions, or more "online" friends than "real" friends that you have actually interfaced with face-to-face. We have begun "being digital", we have begun moving closer to traveling back in time, we have begun becoming immortal, we are populating virtual spaces. We are inhabiting the info-sphere.
This is not the future. This is now! It is a revolution! "We are human projectors"


[dNASAb]

Sunday, March 14, 2010

[dNASAb]'s Studio Visit, P.S.1’s new web initiative that offers virtual presentations of artists’ studios.


http://ps1.org/studio-visit/artist/dnasab
Click through [dNASAb]'s "Studio Visit"

Welcome to Studio Visit, P.S.1’s new web initiative that offers virtual presentations of artists’ studios. Studio Visit will serve as an online artistic hub and provide viewers a look at the varied artistic practices located within one city; the five boroughs and greater New York area.
http://ps1.org/studio-visit/

Monday, March 01, 2010

[dNASAb] Art Basel, Miami 09', panel discussion "Contemporary Art and Social Media"



Art Basel, Miami 09', [dNASAb] speaks in panel discussion
"Contemporary Art and Social Media", part of the "Art Salon" program,Thursday Dec. 3rd at 6pm, in the Miami Beach Convention Center,Art Basel Miami 09', Pecha Kucha presentation format,curated by Carl Hilderbrand.

other speakers.Dylan Fareed, Ben Davis, Lori Faye Fischler, Leyden Rodriguez, Jody Turner..
click link to view full panel discussion.
http://www.artbaselmiamibeach.com/go/id/jdn

Sunday, January 10, 2010

“dataclysmic_ LEDVHD” 2009-2010

“dataclysmic_ LEDVHD” 2009-2010
19” LED HD 720p screen, Digital Media Player, LED’s, welded steel,resin, phosphorescent silicon, plastic,fiber optics, 1 of 1 720P HD video

Frederieke Taylor Gallery presents "dataclysmic", new works by [dNASAb] Jan. 7th 2010

"dataclysmic"7 January - 20 February 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, 7 January, 6-8pm

FREDERIEKE TAYLOR GALLERY
535 West 22nd Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10011
t. 646.230.0992
www.frederieketaylorgallery.com
www.frederieketaylorgallery.blogspot.com

Friday, December 18, 2009

Frederieke Taylor Gallery presents "dataclysmic", new works by [dNASAb] Jan. 7th 2010

"dataclysmic"7 January - 20 February 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, 7 January, 6-8pm

In the Project Room, Frederieke Taylor Gallery presents dataclysmic, new works by [dNASAb]. [dNASAb] is known for creating new-media video work, utilizing consumer electronics and complex sculptural systems. The artist sees these technologies as raw materials for the creation of his work which have a distinct aesthetic, capturing velocity, direction, and evolutionary motion.
The video sculptures combine biomorphic forms with new technology to create a new living organism, using hand-blown glass, phosphorescent silicone and video optics. The new photographic works are energetic abstractions, created in nature in the transition zone between the surf and the shore. The photographs uniquely combine his mixed media sculpture with the unpredictable elements of the wind and ocean waves.
This is dNASAb’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. His works are exhibited frequently in the United States, and his work has been exhibited internationally in various locations including galleries in Paris, Basel Switzerland, South Korea, and Istanbul. His works are included in numerous private and corporate collections.-
FREDERIEKE TAYLOR GALLERY
535 West 22nd Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10011
t. 646.230.0992
www.frederieketaylorgallery.com
www.frederieketaylorgallery.blogspot.com

Monday, November 23, 2009

[dNASAb] participates in a panel discussion at Art Basel called, "Contemporary Art and Social Media"


[dNASAb] participates in a panel discussion at Art Basel called, "Contemporary Art and Social Media" part of the "Art Salon" program, Thursday Dec. 3rd at 6pm, in the Miami Beach Convention Center, Art Basel Miami 09', hope those of you in Miami for the week can make it by..best [dNASAb]

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

"LCDblossom_Phospherescent Polyp" 2009_by [dNASAb]


"LCDblossom_Phospherescent Polyp" 2009_9" LCD screen,hand-blown glass,fiber optics, plastics, resin, enamel, acrylic,phospherescent silicon,12v led's, custom audio/video dvd_dimensions variable

http://www.tc43.com/2009/dNASAb_PhospherescentPolyp.htm

"System: System" curated by Christina Vassallo Brooklyn,NY _October 23rd 2009 opening reception

system:system is a three-day event that reflects on the nature of associations between parts of a whole. The title is a play on the term “complex systems,” which are characterized by their connections and tendencies toward unpredictable behavior.A failing economy has decided the recent fate of 21 Monitor Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Formerly a nun’s convent, the grand three-story house now stands uninhabited due to the declining membership of St. Cecilia parish and its sister school.

Location: St. Cecilia’s Convent, 21 Monitor Street, Brooklyn, NY


Opening reception: Friday, Oct 23, 7pm – 10pm with performances by Matamoros and New Idea Society

"Emergent Ecological Technologies""2009 60 "w X 40"h photograph.lightjet print edition of 7 + 2 AP by [dNASAb] 09'

"Emergent Ecological Technologies #2""2009 60 "w X 40"h photograph.lightjet print edition of 7 + 2 AP

Inspired by the surf, the unpredictable elements of nature,and the energy of the ocean.As well, as the amount of "consumer plastics" needed by humans to enjoy the beach.I set out to create new images incorporating the waves, both light and ocean, wind, sand, explosives, and sculptures made of plastics, rubber and fiber optics.I created mini installations on the shoreline, with fiber optics driven by 9v volt batteries, that proved to be waterproof.It was extremely difficult to work in that changing environment in the middle of the night, half of the time I was knee deep in water with the waves crashing on my tripod.But some interesting and exciting new images were created, and spawned a ton of new thoughts about how to create works integrating nature.
[dNASAb]

[dNASAb] in "Tomorrow City" Robot video project Incheon, Korea




"Tomorrow City" Robot video project Incheon, Korea,Curated by Janet Oh Gallery, Seoul Korea. on view 2009-2010 pictured opposite video by [dNASAb] 2009

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Microsoft is opening up a temporary art space this week in the Meatpacking District in NYC as part of Internet Week. I will be exhibiting a selection of video sculptures. The main reception will be on Tuesday, June 2nd, 7-10 pm. The gallery will be open everyday.June 1st - June 7th, 2009. 414 W.14th Street, NYC. The works are ON day and night, please check it out. [dNASAb]

Thursday, February 19, 2009

"NEXT POST" Solo Projects Exhibition at Rupert Ravens Contemporary,February 28 - April 11, 2009

"NEXT POST" at Rupert Ravens Contemporary
Dates: February 28 - April 11, 2009
Opening reception February 28th, 6-till
Solo Projects Exhibition
"NEXT POST"... is a foray into the next paradigm of art. Blog posts dispense with rules and manners. Jettisoning traditional brushes and technique, each artist uses space, new materials, color, and light as vocabulary of a hybrid visual vernacular. These projects are all BIG, utilizing maximum amplitude to put the potential of art to the test. NEXT POST material and light divulge facets of emotion, the oblique language of the psyche. Here postmodern ruses, wit, and theory are present not as the entirety of a gimmicky one-liner, but as icing on the cake.
AK Airways
Bradley Wester
Cordy Ryman
David Ellis
dNASAb
Donald Bruschi
Doreen McCarthy
Elio Franceschelli
Eric Michel
Fred Gutzeit
Gae Savannah
miya ando
Regine Schumann
Saya Woolfaulk
Stephan Hendee
Thomas Eller
Tim White-Sobieski
Zethray Penisto
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Saturday, January 24, 2009

[dNASAb] exhibits work in a show titled "CURRENTS IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY" at Flanders Art Gallery opening reception Jan. 30th

"CURRENTS IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY"
Opening Reception with pierogies & martinis Friday, Jan. 30th, 6 - 9pm

Over the past decades, photography has evolved into one of the predominant forms of contemporary art. Whether this growth is the result of a relatively youthful medium finally gaining the respect and legitimization of collectors or because the technological developments of the past century accelerated its potential, photography is not only a difficult field to summarize, but it offers almost limitless possibilities in both aesthetic and narrative exploration. more>>>>>>

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Frederieke Taylor gallery will present a Solo Show of New Media Sculptures by (dNASAb) at the Bridge Miami Beach Art Fair: The Catalina Hotel

dNASAb "GeneticsLiteShow#3"2008 60"w X 40.2"h photograph.lightjet print edition of 7

Frederieke Taylor gallery will present a Solo Show of New Media Sculptures by [dNASAb] at the Bridge Miami Beach Art Fair: The Catalina Hotel 1732 Collins Avenue ROOM 103

Bridge Art Fair Hours:

Thursday, Dec 4, 11am - 6pm, VIP First Look Preview.
Opening Night Party: Thursday, Dec. 4, 6pm - 10pm


Friday, Dec 5: Noon - 8pm
Saturday, Dec 6 : Noon - 8pm
Sunday, Dec 7: Noon - 6pm

Friday, November 07, 2008

"Sculpture in the 21st Century" Sculpture Magazine review of [dNASAb] 2008

"Walking into [dNASAb]’s space felt like entering a control room out of control. Wall mounted sculptures resembling imploded iPods were arranged at an accessible height. Each abstract composition of colorful Styrofoam insulation, extruded plastic shreds, and resin pulsed with fiber optic life. A small, face like screen blinked out at the viewer from each piece, competing for attention with changing audio and video compositions. In addition to these “iPod ecosystems” the artist self styled as “disneyNASAborg” also programs LCD screens to create “video bursts” or “data bursts” Here, data not only come to life, but also burst out of the proscribed boundaries of a computer screen. By deconstructing the medium of transmission, [dNASAb] has outpaced video installation to create a new sculptural form. The most recent piece in the show, ”iPod Ecosystem, FIOS-JESUS”(2008), incorporates a crucifix and a sound recording of Christmas Mass in a Spanish Cathedral. Was this merely to introduce another form of spectacle? Or to underscore the fact that these pieces are standing at the intersection of the known and unknown? By incorporating religious mytho-history into his fantasy world of electronic technology, the artist signals that she/he is willing to enter that dialogue.

---Susan Knowles Sculpture Magazine “Sculpture in the 21st Century” November 2008, vol.27 no.9

Friday, October 31, 2008

"In/Formation at BRIC Rotunda Gallery,Opening Reception: Wed, November 5, 7 – 9 pm"

In/Formation at BRIC Rotunda Gallery
Image: [dNASAb], iPod Ecosystem #12, 2007
The artists in In/Formation employ widely varying media and representational approaches to examine the radically changing nature of information systems and vehicles in the digital era. Leslie Alfin, Louisa Bufardeci, [dNASAb], Penelope Umbrico, and Ward Shelley present works that express the effects of information overload brought about by such rapidly transforming websites Google and Wikipedia. In the current environment, information is ubiquitous but not necessarily stable or even accurate. Rather, it is literally in formation—relentlessly growing in quantity and endlessly mutable.
Opening Reception: Wed, November 5, 7 – 9 pm,On view through December 19, 2008
BRIC Rotunda Gallery
33 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel 718.875.4047 fax 718.488.0609

Saturday, October 25, 2008

"Dark Science" sculptural prototypes in process

"Dark Science"painting series, with its limited use of color, and mainly black/white mono-chromatic palette has influenced the use of subdued and dark color schemes for the new genetics inspired sculpture pieces.
"Dark Science_Trans-Neptunian Objects #2" 2008 49"w x 48"h acrylic paint on MDF

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

[dNASAb] unveils new Painting series "Dark Science_the Singularity" 2008

"Dark Science_the Singularity" 2008 49"w x 48"h acrylic paint on MDF by [dNASAb]
[dNASAb] unveils new Painting series "Dark Science_the Singularity" inspired by the most tumultuous and quickly changing times in the history of humanity and our near future obstacles."2012, planet X, molecular machines, grey goo, genetic engineering, transhuman intelligence, Nibiru flyby, the singularity....."

"Art Papers" Magazine review of "Infosphere Aesthetics" show


"Art Papers" Magazine reviews "Infosphere Aesthetics" show at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Written by Denise Sanabria. July-August issue 2008 pp. 56 click link, pdf. or jpg format.

http://www.tc43.com/2008/ArtPapers08.jpg
http://www.tc43.com/2008/ArtPapers08.pdf

Thursday, April 24, 2008

[dNASAb] lecture at Cress Galleries,University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.2008


[dNASAb] lecture on solo show "Infosphere Aesthetics"
at Cress Galleries,University of Tennessee at Chattanooga,
part of the John and Diane Marek Visiting Artist Series.
28 mins. 2008

Sunday, April 13, 2008

"Astral Projections" an A/V sculpture show with installation by [dNASAb]

APRIL 12th- MAY 3rdASTRAL PROJECTIONS..... An Audio Visual Sculpture Show
Opening Party Saturday April 12th 8 to 10pm
Sculpture By:
Zach Layton,
Mighty Robot A/V
Sam Zimmerman-Jean Angel
[dNASAb]
Brock Munroe + Nick Hallet
Seth Kirby
Bradley Eros
Death by Audio
Wizard Smoke from Lights

www.secretprojectrobot.org