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hursday\, Jan. 10\, 2013\, 5:30-7 p.m.
\n This November\, the Museum presents Eric Souther as part of its New Media serie s. Known for building and utilizing his own software\, Souther manipulates video and sound to explore how technology shapes experience and communica tion in our contemporary culture. His artwork also reveals how machines en rich the expressive means of artists. He “find[s] that creating experience s that lead to new understandings are more important than delving into the exact presentation of information\,” and his Search Engine Vision “Cha ir” does just that.
\n\n “Chair” is a compilation of the first 1\,000 videos that appear under the keyword “chair” on YouTu be. Using Max/MSP and Jitter computer programs\, Souther wraps the visual catalogue around a 3D chair model and maneuvers cameras to imitate the pro cess of sifting through information online. He places the viewer in an alt ernative dimension where the database can be experienced “all at once as a form\, an aesthetic visualization of sensory knowledge and experience\,” expressing the “vastly broad potentialities of experiencing ‘chair’” and c apturing the visual language created by the online community.
\nSouther’s aim as an artist is to question how we navigate today’s “co mplex system” of information overload. He “creates individual artistic exp lorations” of the unseen network of the digital age in which we all engage —the sharing\, compiling and encountering of information—to reveal the exp eriences of modern life “saturated with digital information.”
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