“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data.” — William Gibson, Neuromancer.
In 1984, William Gibson’s seminal work of science fiction, Neuromancer, illustrated a neon reality in which cyberspace mirrors the tangible world; a place where e-commerce is as physically accessible as a bodega, fashions arrive and fizzle in the blink of eye, and digital information is supreme currency. The novel, written more than half a decade before English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, stands as a prophetic echo of today’s Internet users and the graphic window of data that they experience the world each day.
Nonspace,
curated by Francisco Correa Cordero and Gabriel H. Sanchez, brings together seven artists — Daniel Gordon, Dina Kelberman, Craig Callison, Zoe Burnett, Ryan Duffin, Qiren Hu and A. Bill Miller — whose work fringes on that of science fiction. Experiments in 3D rendering, virtual reality, and data manipulation are firmly positioned between lowbrow and high-tech, molding socialweb vernacular into expressions of anxiety, disenchantment and divination. Comparable to Gibson’s anticipation of the socialweb, each artist here embraces the digital nonspace for its expressive value in anticipation of what comes next.
Special thanks to Morgan Croney and Dalia Abuadas for their invaluable support and for collaborating with Daniel Gordon on Mood Study (2016-ongoing) helping make it possible. Mood Study was commissioned specifically for Nonspace and will be featured on Aug 24.
Click below to watch the short film that Art21 recently produced about Daniel's work.
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