Thanks to SmartMob I was alerted to the ITN show at NYU that was going on for two nights and was able to catch the end of the ITN Show and cover it in detail here. I would have done the review earlier but was too exhausted from life (I started an Art of Living Course and there’s a lot to process).
The ITN show at NYU, I feel, is better work than what I saw at the Whitney Museum Biennial.
Here’s what I liked - in no particular order:
polymorphic [d(eoxyribo)n(ucleic) a(cid)]: a love story by Marta Lwin, a DNA description of two people in love. I can’t say I’d want to live with this work but it’s not about that.
This work is based on actual DNA sequences between the woman and her boyfriend! The stuff at ITA just blows me away - it makes the Whitney look live the Louvre of American art - it’s old compared to what I’m seeing here.
DNA sequences were derived from whole blood, and extracted by to Rebecka Pestoff and Carole Oddoux, Ph.D., at the the Molecular Genetics Laboratory NYU School of Medicine. Following, the extracted DNA was sequenced by Rebecca Budinoff and Warren Weaver, at the Comparative Genetics Laboratory American Museum of Natural History.
Here’s the links to the documentation for this work:
Links to documentation:
DNA extraction lab documentation
DNA amplification lab documentation
DNA sequencing lab documentation
MOONIVERSE by Makiko Saito and Noah Shibley is an interactive story telling community that’s programmed using MOO (Multi-User Dungeon Object Oriented) that is an online text based virtual world. By using this platform, readers can play around inside of the story and talk with other users. Writers collaborate with other writers and get feedback from readers real time.
Machine Drawings by Tristan Perich is about Pen on paper drawings executed by machine following programming instructions by the artist.
The work I saw looked like a fractal drawing and there were several completed studies that all looked pretty good.
One thing I noticed about all the artists (and I will cover this in Part II, III, IV, V of this post) is many are preoccupied with the process of what they’re doing and haven’t yet arrived at a mature style - but that’s fine with me because these are students working on a final project.
