"Aquascaping PARASPACE" screens on a 27 screen video wall October 5 – October 30, 2015

PARASPACE

"the condition of hyperspace [that] is itself insane"

- Barry Malzberg, Galaxies

"Aquascaping PARASPACE, Video re-contextualization of the living marine reef ecosystem" on the 27 screen video wall at IFP by [dNASAb] 2015

October 5 – October 30, 2015

Made in NY Media Center by IFP - 30 John Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

  This exhibition explores ways in which contemporary artists using digital tools address cyberspace, body, and nature in the post internet time. The selected artists use animation, 3D computer graphics, video, and glitches to model virtually simulated scenes out of the detritus of internet and consumer culture. Paraspace  presents an imploded realm where the ontological status of subject and landscape is opened to question and position for redefinition.Curated by Andrea Wolf and CHiKA.

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"Aquascaping Para-Space, Video re-contextualization of the living marine reef ecosystem" 2015
1:30 min, 24 fps, 1080p HD excerpt of a larger composition to be screened on a 27 screen video wall by [dNASAb] 2015

PARASPACE "the condition of hyperspace [that] is itself insane" opens October 5th, 2015

PARASPACE

"the condition of hyperspace [that] is itself insane"

- Barry Malzberg, Galaxies

video still "Aquascaping Para-Space, Video re-contextualization of the living marine reef ecosystem"  by [dNASAb] 2015

October 5 – October 30, 2015

Opening Reception: Monday, October 5th, 6-9 PM

Made in NY Media Center by IFP - 30 John Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Featuring work by Alfredo Salazar Caro, Andrea Wolf, Anton Marini & Danielle Ezzo, CHiKA, [dNASAb], Katie Torn, Nicolas Rupcich, Rosa Menkman, and Sarah Rothberg. 

Paraspace is a group show that explores cyberspace and the rhetorical conditions of its existence. 

Paraspace is a term created by writer Samuel R. Delaney to refer to an alternate ‘space’ existing parallel to normal or ordinary space. A linguistically intensified zone, paraspace is both a conceptual and material realm that we can enter with the help of technology, and that is affected and affects ‘real’ space.

This exhibition explores ways in which contemporary artists using digital tools address cyberspace, body, and nature in the post internet time. The selected artists use animation, 3D computer graphics, video, and glitches to model virtually simulated scenes out of the detritus of internet and consumer culture. Paraspace  presents an imploded realm where the ontological status of subject and landscape is opened to question and position for redefinition.Curated by Andrea Wolf and CHiKA.

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video still "Aquascaping Para-Space, Video re-contextualization of the living marine reef ecosystem"  by [dNASAb] 2015

"Aesthetics of Decay_Design for Gratefully Dying Electronics_Fare Thee Well" 2014-2015 opening reception of "Luminary" on Friday,July 17th 2015

detail_"Aesthetics of Decay_Design for Gratefully Dying Electronics_Fare Thee Well" 2014-2015 by [dNASAb]

acrylic, cast archival images, individually addressable LED's sequenced to an HD audio track of a live recording of the Grateful Dead's spiritual space drum session from the Fare Thee Well tour 2015

To be shown in the opening of "Luminary" on Friday the 17th! Opening reception 6-10pm.

Luminary is a group show featuring work by 8 artists who utilize light as a material (to varied effect). The artwork will be shown with the galleries darkened.

Artists: [dNASAb], CHiKA, Melissa F. Clarke, Lindsay Packer, Christine Sciulli, Oliver Warden, Andrea Wolf, Natalia Zubko.

Luminary closes on Wednesday, August 5th. Gallery hours are Wednesday - Saturday, 12 - 6. Please make an appointment to see the show through creative@brooklynfireproof.com or call Hazel at 646-491-1730. Drop-in guests may have a short wait.

Co-curated by Oliver Warden and Hazel Lee Santino for BFP Creative.

Temporary Storage gallery (at Brooklyn Fire Proof)
119 Ingraham St., ground floor
(enter through the back of the alley)
Brooklyn, NY 11237

For more information, visit bfpcreative.com/luminary or ‪#‎BFPLuminary‬

"Aesthetics of Decay_Design for Gratefully Dying Electronics_Fare Thee Well" 2014-2015 to be exhibited in "Luminary" at Temporary Storage gallery NY

video detail_"Aesthetics of Decay_Design for Gratefully Dying Electronics_Fare Thee Well" 2014-2015 by [dNASAb]__acrylic, cast archival images, individually addressable LED's sequenced to an HD audio track of a live recording of the Grateful Dead's spiritual space drum session from the Fare Thee Well tour 2015___To be shown in the opening of "Luminary" on Friday the 17th! Opening reception 6-10pm.Luminary is a group show featuring work by 8 artists who utilize light as a material (to varied effect). The artwork will be shown with the galleries darkened._________Artists: [dNASAb], CHiKA, Melissa F. Clarke, Lindsay Packer, Christine Sciulli, Oliver Warden, Andrea Wolf, Natalia Zubko.______________Temporary Storage gallery (at Brooklyn Fire Proof)119 Ingraham St., ground floorBrooklyn, NY 11237For more information, visit bfpcreative.com/luminary or ‪#‎BFPLuminary‬

Video documentation of "Transcending the gyre_ Exquisite colonies of plasticized video symbiosis #1" 2015 by [dNASAb]

Video documentation of "Transcending the gyre_ Exquisite colonies of plasticized video symbiosis #1" 2015____(3) LCD screens,resin, acrylic, reclaimed/recycled plastics,acrylic paints, salvaged driftwood, thermal formed plastics, archival imaged cast plastics,reclaimed corals and sponges from South Florida's beaches,4 led networks, micro controllers,media players, unique 1080p HD video

2 New Videosculptures "Transcending the gyre_ Exquisite colonies of plasticized video symbiosis #1 + #2" 2015

"Transcending the gyre_ Exquisite

colonies of plasticized video symbiosis #1 + #2" 2015
(6) LCD screens,resin, acrylic, reclaimed/recycled plastics,
acrylic paints, salvaged driftwood, thermal formed plastics, archival imaged cast plastics,
reclaimed corals and sponges from South Florida's beaches,4 led networks, micro controllers,
media players, unique 1080p HD video

Two new videosculptures are currently on display in the window,[visible both day and night] 

"Williamsburg on Warren"
an exhibit & happening curated by Dam Stuhltrager, founder of THE WYE

featuring artwork by Mark Andreas, Ken Butler, Cris Dam, Mark Esper, Anna Frants, Ruth Marshall, Loren J. Munk, Disney Nasa Borg, Randy Polumbo, William Powhida, Carol Salmanson, Jeff Schneider, Kathleen Vance & Ryan Wolfe
            
Vernissage: JUNE 12 (6 - 10pm)
Exhibit Dates: June 12 – July 7, 2015

Venue: One Art Space
Address: 23 Warren St, NYC
Directions: A, C to Chambers
Hrs: Tues - Sat, 11:30am - 5pm

Video Documentation "Sculpting Life_Transcending the gyre_ exquisite colonies of plasticized symbiosis" 2015

"Sculpting Life_Transcending the gyre_ exquisite colonies of plasticized symbiosis" 2015
[A Re-Contextualization of the living marine reef ecosystem]
40 gallon custom acrylic aquarium,pumps, filters, actinic lights, resin,fiber optics,acrylic, reclaimed plastics, led's,thermal formed plastics, archival imaged plastics, 40 living corals,fish, shrimp, invertebrates, algae,1080p HD video with original audio track.
36 (w) X 92" (h) x 24 inches

  [dNASAb]’s most recent body of work has evolved in exciting new directions. These dynamic new works are informed via the intense observation of the living marine reef ecosystem. The artist maintains a full blown reef ecosystem in his studio in which he nurtures and propagates dozens of species of living corals, as well as the subsequent ecosystem needed for them to thrive, fish, invertebrates and bacteria. The artist refers to the reef aquarium as the “studio tank”, and as the name suggests it is a place of research into developing living sculpture. [dNASAb] conducts research utilizing new materials, species integration and optical systems in an effort to re-contextualize the reef environment.

  The underwater world has always been a source of inspiration for the artist but it’s this daily interaction with this pristine system that informs the new works in this series. The tank requires extreme measures to maintain suitable water chemistry and a sterile environment for the species to thrive, the most important step in this process is intense observation. Utilizing the same level of observation the artist has turned his discerning eye to the natural environments that are the foundations for a healthy reef. Sadly, the same standard of cleanliness does not exist in real life. What the artist has found on the beaches, in the Ocean’s, and strewn through the mangrove nurseries is horrifyingly inspirational.

  “Like an Ocean gyre, a vortex of artifacts of a consumption based contemporary society such as; plastic bottles and bags, fishing nets, and helium balloons become ensnarled with driftwood, dead coral, and seaweed creating a grotesques amalgamation of disparate materials which remarkably can still harbor life and be a sculptural framework for life to grow. I aim to develop work that embodies this contemporary conundrum.”

Special Thanks to Frederieke Taylor, Desiree Konian, Scott Williams, Larry Morris, Brian Bronzino, Warren Vanvarick, Bob Dellavechia, Ryan Michael Ford, Tyrome Salvatore Tripoli, Erik Pye, Lydia Kernodle, Justin Wood, Lauren Clark, Aquatic Visions, Sea Level Aquarium, MOTE Tropical Marine Research Lab and VoltaNY.

Photographs of Frederieke Taylor's presentation at VoltaNY 2015 featuring the works of [dNASAb]

 "Sculpting Life_Transcending the gyre_ exquisite colonies of plasticized symbiosis" 2015

[A Re-Contextualization of the living marine reef ecosystem]
40 gallon custom acrylic aquarium,pumps, filters, actinic lights, resin,fiber optics,acrylic, reclaimed plastics, led's,thermal formed plastics, archival imaged plastics, 40 living corals,fish, shrimp, invertebrates, algae,1080p HD video with original audio track.
36 (w) X 92" (h) x 24 inches

view of Frederieke Taylor's VoltaNY 2015 booth

view of Frederieke Taylor's VoltaNY 2015 booth

view of Frederieke Taylor's VoltaNY 2015 booth

"Vortex_Plasticized Gyre #4” 2015

Resin, acrylic, reclaimed plastics, paint,
wood, thermal formed plastics, archival
imaged plastics, reclaimed corals and
sponges, led’s.
19(h) x 14(w) x 14(l) inches

"Vortex_Plasticized Gyre #1” 2015
Resin, acrylic, reclaimed plastics, paint,
wood, thermal formed plastics, archival
imaged plastics, reclaimed corals and
sponges, led’s.
54(h) x 32(w) x32(l) inches

detail__"Sculpting Life_Transcending the gyre_ exquisite colonies of plasticized symbiosis" 2015

[A Re-Contextualization of the living marine reef ecosystem]
40 gallon custom acrylic aquarium,pumps, filters, actinic lights, resin,fiber optics,acrylic, reclaimed plastics, led's,thermal formed plastics, archival imaged plastics, 40 living corals,fish, shrimp, invertebrates, algae,1080p HD video with original audio track.
36 (w) X 92" (h) x 24 inches

Frederieke Taylor Gallery presents [dNASAb] at VOLTANY 2015 Art Fair, March 5- 8 2015, Pier 90, booth D19

"Transcending the gyre_ exquisite colonies of plasticized symbiosis #3"

[Sculptural Aquascaping_A Re-Contextualization of the living marine reef ecosystem]”
2015
Archival pigment print on Acrylic, edition of 7
60" x 34.4"

Frederieke Taylor Gallery presents [dNASAb] at VOLTANY Art Fair, 

Thursday March 5 through Sunday March 8 

PIER 90 [West 50th St at 12th Ave], Booth D19