Double Take Exhibition - New York_

Date 25th July
Tags interactive art, International, New York, USA, exhibition, event

New York City, July 7, 2008—On July 12 Eyebeam opened Double Take, an exhibition of interactive collaborative projects commissioned and created during an intensive two week workshop at Eyebeam as part of Interactivos?@Eyebeam.

These projects—nine in all, made by thirteen artists and designers from across the US, the UK, Germany and Korea, along with more than twenty NYC collaborators—challenge viewers to reconsider what we take for granted as reality in our technologically-mediated lives. Double Take is curated in collaboration with with Sarah Cook, Eyebeam's visiting curatorial fellow, and will be on display from July 12 – August 9.

These interactions could be as simple as sitting at a table and watching shadows come to life (Hye Yeon Nam's Dinner Party), or as complex as positioning your body to match that of a kung fu fighter in a popular film in order to keep the film rolling (Justin Downs and Ruycl Mills, Watch What You Are).

The title Double Take prods the viewer to closely observe how the works themselves respond to her presence. (To what extent can we rely on our direct observation or, more to the point, what falls into this category?) The title also references the preoccupation that many artists today have—namely, how we are perceived—reflected—through the many mirrors within society which are mediated by technology: the webcam, the social networking site, the
mainstream media. For instance, Andrew Mahon' s project digitallyFit enables participants to manipulate and modify a projected image of themselves; to generate a virtual body type in real time.

New interactive projects by New York City public high school students in Eyebeam's 2008 Digital Day Camp, also on the theme “better than the real thing”, will be added to the show on July 29, with a reception at 7PM.

Websites

http://www.eyebeam.org/engage/engage.php?page=exhibitions&id=169

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