SALON #3
SEPTEMBER 6 – 14 IN SOHO
‘The Current // Truth’
Curated by Tina Rivers Ryan
Constant Dullaart, Ja’Tovia Gary, Michael Mandiberg, Eva and Franco Mattes, belit sağ, Thomson & Craighead, UBERMORGEN, Clement Valla, Addie Wagenknecht
Featured Artwork: Addie Wagenknecht ‘Believe Me’ (2017) Commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art for its artport website
From our curator:
“Now that the means of media production are not consolidated but distributed, artists must contend with the ways in which the digital editing and sharing of images and information is transforming truth itself…”
Read the full salon statement – Tina Rivers Ryan is a curator specializing in art from the 1960s to the present day, with a focus on the uses of new media technologies.
New Acquisitions for our Collection
No Fun from Eva and Franco Mattes, Postcards from Google Earth from Clement Valla, and Print Wikipedia from Michael Mandiberg
Intimate Gatherings within a Salon-style Exhibition
To grow our collection, we invite curators to select artworks on themes related to technology’s impact on our lives. The works are exhibited for short-run salon exhibitions. Cooperative collection committee members are invited for a salon discussion with the curator, and vote on which works enter the collection.
PAST SALON
MAY 2018 IN SOHO
The Current // Permanence
Curated by Ben Fino-Radin
Ben Fino-Radin invited conservator Jill Sterrett, Director of Collections at SFMoMA and technologist Michelle Lee, Head of Product at Protocol Labs to have a discussion on stewardship and change in contemporary culture.
PAST SALON
FEBRUARY 2018 IN SOHO
