Stumbling Through The Uncanny Valley: Sculpture And Self In The Age Of Computer Generated Imagery
CCA 鈥 Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv is please to present 鈥淪tumbling Through the Uncanny Valley: Sculpture and Self in the Age of Computer Generated Imagery鈥 a group exhibition spanning the entire building. We spend so much time looking at screens that show us images created by computers rather than cameras or humans. This new aesthetic filters through our daily lives and gives form to a new mode of visual representation. Following these premises, the exhibition examines the boundaries of this phenomenon through the work of 30 pioneering artists from around the globe. The exhibition title refers to the term 鈥淭he uncanny valley,鈥 that was coined in the 1970s to describe the unsettling feeling when androids (humanoid robots) or audio / visual representations of people closely resemble humans, but are not fully realistic or convincing. This dissonance is found today in computer-generated imagery (CGI) that now form our visual world and artists today are responding to and deconstructing the resultant visual landscape.
The exhibition is conceived as a major spotlight on this medium shift, drawing inspiration from the stream of 鈥淧ost-Internet Art.鈥 鈥淧ost-Internet鈥 does not mean a world after the Internet, but rather work being made in a widely networked world and focusing on the visual culture that is its byproduct, a culture that has become more and more globalized and connected, bringing together artists from different regions of the world, from Asia to Central Europe, from the Middle East to Baltic Countries. These artists are not only producing art with new tools, they are looking deeply at a new world order in which synthetic images make up a large part of what we take in. In this world, mediated by technology, the physical and the virtual merge, and the Internet complicates how the self and the other meet.
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CCA 鈥 Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv is please to present 鈥淪tumbling Through the Uncanny Valley: Sculpture and Self in the Age of Computer Generated Imagery鈥 a group exhibition spanning the entire building. We spend so much time looking at screens that show us images created by computers rather than cameras or humans. This new aesthetic filters through our daily lives and gives form to a new mode of visual representation. Following these premises, the exhibition examines the boundaries of this phenomenon through the work of 30 pioneering artists from around the globe. The exhibition title refers to the term 鈥淭he uncanny valley,鈥 that was coined in the 1970s to describe the unsettling feeling when androids (humanoid robots) or audio / visual representations of people closely resemble humans, but are not fully realistic or convincing. This dissonance is found today in computer-generated imagery (CGI) that now form our visual world and artists today are responding to and deconstructing the resultant visual landscape.
The exhibition is conceived as a major spotlight on this medium shift, drawing inspiration from the stream of 鈥淧ost-Internet Art.鈥 鈥淧ost-Internet鈥 does not mean a world after the Internet, but rather work being made in a widely networked world and focusing on the visual culture that is its byproduct, a culture that has become more and more globalized and connected, bringing together artists from different regions of the world, from Asia to Central Europe, from the Middle East to Baltic Countries. These artists are not only producing art with new tools, they are looking deeply at a new world order in which synthetic images make up a large part of what we take in. In this world, mediated by technology, the physical and the virtual merge, and the Internet complicates how the self and the other meet.
Artists on show
- Adi Fluman
- Aleksandra Domanovi膰
- Alicia Mersy
- Andrea Pekárková
- Andrew Norman Wilson
- Carmi Dror
- Christopher Kulendran Thomas
- Cory Arcangel
- Daniel Landau
- Elinor Salomon
- Eva Papamargariti
- Haviv Kaptzon
- Heather Phillipson
- Jacolby T. Satterwhite
- Jakub Jansa
- Jasmin Vardi
- Jon Rafman
- Karolína Ju艡íková
- Katja Novitskova
- Lu Yang
- Maya Magnat
- Miri Segal
- Nabbteeri
- Nimrod Alexander Gershoni
- Nir Harel
- Oliver Laric
- Pakui Hardware
- Ronnie Karfiol
- Ruth Patir
- Santa France
- Seth Price
- Timur Si-Qin