Gallery1F presents format.fetish

	VIEW ART

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	format.fetish highlights patterned choices
	of file formats and data structures byemploying
	multiple (some disparate, some related) digital
	systems by which to contextualize work by
	jonCates and Ant Scott.  The exhibition
	presents the art works in a reduced but highly
	valent framework.  In its collection of a variety
	of formats, format.fetish does not assume
	a maximal approach, but employs these formats as
	preparatorial limitations, filters of and windows
	into the work.

	With both contemporaries and predecessors in
	code-based artwork as inspiration, Chicago
	based artist jonCates manipulates files to both
	create art products and to re-frame the hystorical
	conditions of net.art.  format.fetish presents
	the premier of his My Mini AVI.  A complex space
	in which jonCates' alter-self, a seeming mini-jonCates,
	talks the viewer through a room designed after the
	Korean Internet community game 'cyworld'.  In his
	room the mini-Cates is surrounded by television sets
	arranged like a Nam June Paik video installation.
	Each television screen plays a different video file
	reformatted from recordings jonCates made while in
	residency at The Experimental Television Center
	feeding the .co.kr iteration of net artist duo
	JODI's %WRONG Browser piece through a video system
	developed by Nam June Paik  Shuya Abe called the
	'Wobbulator.'

	Hypnotic and surreal jpgs, gifs and photographs
	created by British artist Ant Scott encourage
	visceral viewing as objects, outputs and side
	effects of Scott's transformations of computer
	dysfunctions (crashes and viruses) into digital
	and tangible images.  Intuitively, Scott manipulates
	computer data and employs painterly abstraction
	onscreen; and through photo-paper transfers images
	off computer screens onto physical gallery walls.
	This recent digital-to-analog process makes a file
	format of paper.  In format.fetish, Scott
	presents only digital renderings, permitting viewers
	to explore the images between the pixels.

	During the 48 hour opening reception, Gallery1F is
	joined by net.dee.jay. Christian Rieben with a performance
	of his set, 'Robot-Rock'.
	
	this programme will run for 02 months,
	from 2006-03-10 -> 2006-05-10.
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		('jonCates' => 04.co.kr),
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