Recently Possible: Objects of the Future
Recently Possible: Objects of the Future
November 4th-December 2nd, 2011
Opening Reception from 6-9pm on Friday, November 4th
Recently Possible: Objects of the Future, The Luminary’s final exhibition of the 2011 season, explores the concept of ‘new media’ from a literal perspective of technological development, innovative concepts and radical consumer products primarily drawn from the past year. New media has been shorthand for all art that engages technology since at least the video experiments of the 60′s and has been omnipresent since the emergence of interactive technologies of the 90′s. Recently Possible explores the concept from a step outside of the fine art discipline in order to expand and challenge our concept of new media practice, placing products and experimental research alongside the work of new media artists.
The exhibition focuses on projects and products that would not have been possible to create beyond the past several years, from 3D printers and visual synthesizers to robotic lifeguards and electronic cigarettes. By placing restrictions on the exhibition’s timeline to the immediate past, we are questioning the relevance of the language of new media and the contemporary, which encompasses fifty years of artistic practice as it mentions Nam June Paik and Bruce Naumann together with artists pushing today’s technological boundaries.
Artists and projects include Art404, Teenage Engineering, Yamaha/Tenori-on, Ryan Hendrickson + Arch Reactor Hackerspace, E.M.I.L.Y./Hydronalix, Sugru, Russell Davies, Emmett Lalish, Peter Coe and more.
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