TRANSPOSE
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 20th. 6:00PM – 11:00PM
Open Hours: Wednesday- Friday: 4pm-8pm
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts is pleased to announce our third exhibition, opening to the public with a FREE reception on Saturday, February 20th. The show will feature the work of artists Aaron Koblin and Robert Hodgin.
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TRANSPOSE continues Gray Area’s investigation into expansive forms of technology and the painting of landscapes through digital means. Code is a rule for converting a piece of information into another form or representation. Here we present two artists who work visually and creatively with code, shifting data around into different compositions, transposing their received nature into an alternate one through interpolation and algorithms.
Aaron Koblin is an an artist specializing in data visualization. His work takes social and infrastructural data and uses it to depict cultural trends and emergent patterns. Aaron’s work has been shown at international festivals including Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, OFFF, the Japan Media Arts Festival, and TED. He received the National Science foundation’s first place award for science visualization and is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Currently, Aaron is Technology Lead of Google’s Creative Lab where he helped to launch Chrome Experiments, a website showcasing JavaScript work by designers from around the world.
Robert Hodgin co-founded the Barbarian Group. His work ranges from simple 2D data visualizations to immersive 3D terrain simulations. His primary interests include theoretical physics, astronomy, particle engines, and audio visualizations. He works in Java, Processing, C++, Cinder, OpenGL, and GLSL and has spoken at conferences around the world, including FlashForward, FITC, Flash on the Beach, OFFF, and FlashBelt. He was also a guest lecturer at NYU’s ITP program, UCLA’s DMA program, and SCI-ARC and his work has been shown at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Wing Luke Asian Museum, McLeod Residence Gallery, Wired NextFest, San Francisco Exploratorium, and the San Francisco Independent Film Festival.
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Is this a one night event, or an ongoing exhibition? If ongoing, how long will it be showing? thanks
The exhibit will run through the end of March. Mostly only open during pubic events announced on our site.
Is this an all-ages event?
Sorry, a question rather than comment.
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I went to the opening and thought it was great. Some of the exhibits are even fancier than the online versions. I’ll be back soon. Yep.
[...] in February 2010 and lasting through April, I exhibited some work in a two person show at the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA). The other artist was the very talented Aaron [...]
One post says until the end of March, another says “lasting through April”. I hope it’s the latter, since I’m not able to make it until after 7apr.
Can someone please clarify? The Robert Hodgin work shows in the Chronicle floored me, and I *really* don’t want to miss this.
Thanks!
Hi Raymond,
The exhibition will be on display through April 16th. Hope to see you here!