Image Search

Curated by Jamie Sterns

June 25 - July 31, 2009

Opening Reception: June 25, 6-8pm
Opening night performance by Lucky Dragons

The internet has transformed the way we communicate, interact and perceive ourselves and others. Image Search presents the work of thirteen artists who use the internet as the primary source for reference and research in their image-making process. Open source information and images are being used by these artists to create work that addresses issues of identity, psychology, politics, the environment and history. Our collective visual culture is being transformed by the internet and artists as image-makers are not only using it as a new medium, they are transcending and subverting its potential. Often treated as a living organism, the internet's evolution is constant and its impact immeasurable. These artists harness and exploit the nature of this new technology, which has become in a matter of a few decades, central to the way we interact.

Daniel Keller and Nik Kosmas (Aids-3D) (US, Berlin) Exhibitions: 53rd Venice Biennale's Internet Pavilion; New Museum, Younger Than Jesus; upcoming solo exhibition at URA Project in Istanbul, Omega Project

Colleen Asper (US, Brooklyn) Co-founder of Ad Hoc Vox, artist and writer, her recent exhibitions include Conceptual Figures, Deitch Projects; New York, NY and Put On, Circus Gallery; Los Angeles, CA

Aleksandra Domanovic (SLO, Berlin) Included in 53rd Venice Biennale's Internet Pavilion; member of VVORK

Christoph Draeger (CH, Manhattan) Recent solo exhibition at Roebling Hall, The End of Remake; current solo exhibition Tropolicalia, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

Daniel Everett (US, Chicago) Past exhibition: Are You Sure You Are You? Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY

Oliver Laric (AUS, Berlin) Currently in 53rd Venice Biennale's Internet Pavilion; member of VVORK

Jason Lazarus (US, Chicago) Recent exhibition Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Black Is, Black Ain't curated by Hamza Walker, Detroit, Michigan

Abigail Lloyd (US, New York) Currently lives in Queens

Lucky Dragons (US, Los Angeles) Included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, will be publishing a collection of downloadable video and sound works, entitled Learn and Perform, in September of 2009

Jill Magid (US, New York) Upcoming exhibition: Authority To Remove Tate Modern; Objects To Be Handed Over or Destroyed, Yvon Lambert, New York

James Shaeffer (US, Richmond VA) Upcoming exhibition; Genre Festival at Tulsa Living Arts, Tulsa, OK

Suzanne Treister (UK, London) Recent solo exhibition; NATO Black Dog Publishing, Annely Juda Fine Art, London

Conrad Ventur (US, New York) Upcoming solo exhibition, Andy Warhol Museum; editor USELESS Magazine

There will also be a performance event organized by Ad Hoc Vox and a reading of FLARF poetry organized by Gary Sullivan during the exhibition dates.

Please call 212-647-1044 for additional information or photographic material