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GALLERY PROJECT PRESENTS: FIRST CONTACT
Thursday, February 14 - Sunday, March 24, 2013 Reception: Friday, February 22, 6-9pm
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Gallery Project presents First Contact, a multimedia exhibit in which 33 regional, national, and international artists explore our desire to encounter extraterrestrials, our preparedness for such an event, the event itself, and its possible consequences.
Technological
development has brought us to the precipice of first contact, but has
humanity kept pace? Is our search for extraterrestrial life simply a
search for answers to our own existence? What makes us believe that we
are prepared for a relationship with other worlds when we have
difficulties on our own planet? Is it our innate curiosity or primal
fear that motivates us? 'Artists," wrote Ezra Pound, "are the antennae
of the race." Media analyst Marshall McLuhan expanded on that idea when
he wrote, "Art as radar acts as an 'early alarm system,' as it were,
enabling us to discover social and psychic targets in lots of time to
prepare to cope with them." If art is an 'early warning system,' then
what does art about First Contact foretell?
Contributors include Seder
Burns, Thomas Carey, Ross Carlisle, John Causland, Debra Davis, Lynda
Davis, Rocco DePietro, Zeek Earl, H.R. Giger, Brad Gieske, Clifton
Harvey, Mayumi Haryoto, Dan Hernandez, Nicholas Kahn, Tanya Kazakova,
Charles Lindsay, Kevin Margo, Ian Moersen, Gloria Pritschet, Simon Ray,
Michael Rea, Kris Rudolph, Richard Selesnick, Sara Schleicher, Douglas
Scobel, Brian Spolans, Derek Stenning, Po-Wei Su, Mike Tarr, Jacob
Tebbe, Brana Vojnovic, Lynn Whitney, and Barry Whittaker.
The exhibit is curated by Seder Burns, Lecturer of New Media, University of Toledo, and Gallery Project collaborator.
Image: Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick, Elysium Planitia
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