“Well Now WTF?” is an online exhibition that’s also something of an extravaganza. Curated by the artists Faith Holland and Lorna Mills and by Wade Wallerstein, founder of the digital art space Silicon Valet (which is hosting the show), it features nearly 125 contributions. The result feels like equal parts experiment, grab bag and virtual gathering — which I love. It’s imperfect but energetic and genuine.
THE INTERNET - Museums are closed. School is cancelled. The world is shut off and we’re stuck indoors. In spite of everything, Silicon Valet is pleased to present Well Now WTF? An online exhibition curated by Faith Holland, Lorna Mills, and Wade Wallerstein featuring 100+ artists with moving image practices that first opened April 4, 2020. On May 2, 2020 an additional 40 artists join the exhibition.
Altered Ego is a MACAA online exhibition juried by Liz Roberts. The exhibition engages with the fluid and untethered notion of identity, which has been complicated with the invention of the Internet. This invention has created innumerable opportunities for the exploration of multiple selves. Artists within this exhibition are engaging with the Internet's effect on Identity, the indefinability of self, and what the future of the self may look like.
Selected Artists
Stephanie Kang | Laura Gillmore | Melissa Huang and Drew Tetz | Tim Porter | Richard Haley | Mike Keaveney | Josh Gonzalez
cold soup, raw meat, pubic hair | T2R/Laura Gillmore | 2018
“A performance video for the Instagram era, blurring the lines between methods of laser hair removal and recipes for steak tartare and strawberry soup.” (Steve Polta)
How to Fold a Napkin | T2R/Laura Gillmore | 2018
“…a meditation of the absurdity of lifestyle-branded content and how our identity dissociates in order to engage with it. Our attention and loneliness have been commodified into an economy of ‘bottomless’ scrolling.” (T2R)
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Last Saturday night the First Night of Experimental Boredom took place at 222Lodge in Dordrecht. Artist curator Frans van Lent compiled an extensive and versatile program to investigate the possibilities of boredom as a methodology and as a leitmotiv in art.”
Log In to Like or Comment (Hey Guys) at The First Night of Experimental Boredom, January 2019.
“The clichéd emptiness of beauty vlogs takes shape in the ultra-short video Hey Guys by Laura Gillmore in which the video message has been reduced to the characteristic sugar-sweet opening greeting of the current generation of online celebs.”
“Time2Reflect uses unorthodox catalog and play-doh composites to critique our obsession with social media.”
