[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

[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.

http://irvinecontemporary.com/otherExhibitions.php?eventID=122

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

[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/

“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

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

[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]

"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

[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

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]

"Future Genetic Anomalies" + "LCD_Blossom" video sculptures, filmed in [dNASAb]'s studio

video footage of [dNASAb] video sculptures
"Future Genetic Anomalies" + "LCD_Blossom"
in the studio 2009. 1.30 mins.

"Dark Science_video Singularity"2009 currently exhibited in "NEXT POST" 18 solo projects at Rupert Ravens Contemporary.

[dNASAb]
"Dark Science_video Singularity"2009

new Painting based video sculpture.
60"x53" acrylic on wood panel framed, plastics,fiber optics,resin, L.E.D's, 1 of 1 video, 3LCD Projector

currently exhibited in "NEXT POST" 18 solo projects at Rupert Ravens Contemporary.

"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 Peniston

[dNASAb] 3 channel video sculpture in"Astral projections" at Secret Project Robot

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS
an Audio Visual Sculpture show and Installation

Secret Project Robot

"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 AudioWizard Smoke from Lights

www.secretprojectrobot.org