The bitforms is in Chelsea, NY, U.S. and in Seoul, Korea. The beginning of the gallery in NYC was 6 years ago. After that, one in Seoul started 3 years ago. The bitforms gallery remains a destination for those seeking art historical connections to visual new media practice today. The gallery is devoted to emerging and established artists who embrace new media and contemporary art practice, resulting in new language and artistic experiences. In 2001, the bitforms gallery became the first commercial art gallery to champion art impacted by and designed with digital tools.
The bitforms gallery in NYC has held Summer 2007 Group Show on May 25 th to July 21 st, 2007. 6 artists participate in this summer exhibition: U-Ram Choe, Michael Joaquin Grey, Rafael Lozano-Hammer, Lynn Hershman Lesson, James Paterson, C.E.B Reas, and Bjorn Schilke. Although their themes are different, they extend art field with digital media, such as software.
U-Ram Choe is Korean artist. He makes the intricate kinetic sculptures. In this exhibition, he displays Edition of 5. In this work, his inspiration evokes from United Research of Anima-Machines, U.R.A.M, having recently released a remarkable study in relation to the discovery of a new in organic creature. U.R.A.M has named the new machine-organism ‘Urbanus’, meaning ‘a lover of the urban’.
Michael Joaquin Grey is American artist. He has been creating work that extends and plays with the boundaries of art, science and media. In this exhibition, he displays Autonomic Yoke (male-female) and Gametes. His investigations center on the development and the origins of life, such as language and form, related to natural and complex system.
Rafael Lozano-Hammer is Mexican and electronic artist. He has been creating large-scale interactive installations in public space and usually deploying new technologies and custom-made physical interface with robotics, Internet, cell phone and other devices. His work’s aim is to provide temporary anti-monuments for alien agency.
In this exhibition, he displays Amodal Suspension, 2007. This project is related to Rafael Lozano-Hammer’s Amodal Suspension, 2003, created to commemorate the opening of Japan’s Yamaguchi center for Arts & Media in 2003.
Lynn Hershman Leeson is American artist. In this exhibition, Graph to Early Sings of Stress (1975) is displayed. This work is among the 150 artifacts of transformation and identity documenting Roberta Breitmore’s existence between 1974 and 1978. This work, the portraiture, in this project pushes historical boundaries of social construction and archival stability. Her work becomes later known as a cyber-feminist.
James Paterson is American artist. In this time, he displays Untitled (drawings from 2005, No.1). His work is a large black and White print on vinyl wallpaper that merges the artist’s passion for software and ink drawing. His work is very flexible. There is little formal separation between drawing, animation and programming.
C.E.B Reas is American artist. In this exhibition, he exhibits Process11 (Software 2), 2006. New work from his ongoing process series explores the dialectical relationship between naturally evolved systems and those that are engineer and synthetic. His inspiration comes from transformation, and visualizes systems in motion and at rest.
Bjorn Schulke is German artist. He displays Solar-Space- Mobile, 2007 in the gallery. He designs objects that playfully transform live spatial energy into active responses in sculptural form. His work speaks powerfully to today’s environmental concern.
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U-Ram Choe is killing sculpture rather than giveing them life.
As 3D art work, sculpture attracts viewers because of the motional way of appreciation. viewer can keep moving around the sculpture and view through different angles to get different feeling.
Although as kinetic sculptures, U's works are fancy enough to capture viewer. However, the viewer's curiousity to move around reduces. For examole, I prefer to sit on a chair and watch the changing of the sculpture rather than walking around.
My idea is I just need waiting for something happen passively. The process is similar to seeing a performance. To some extent, a lot of aesthetic funs of sculpture has already lost. In this case, the sculpture is walking corpse.
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