I haven’t posted in a while because I have been scrambling to finalize two exhibitions in the next two weeks. SubZERO, Zer01’s annual technology and art gallery openings and block party is almost upon us.  The grad opening and festivities will be taking place Friday June 5, in San Jose Downtown’s SoFA District along 1st St, with shows running throughout the month. This is much earlier than last year plus I have a solo piece, “Media – Me” as well as a large scale collaboration “/hug” that were both accepted into the show. I am only freaking out slightly.

Media – Me (Media Minus Me) is an idea that has been in my head since 2006, maybe even earlier and I am finally beginning to realize it. It will be exhibited as part of Remote/Control at Works/San Jose.

This project deals with feelings of media bombardment, surveillance, personal irrelevance and disconnection in our ever advancing society. An old style video camera and an eighties style cabinet TV with bent rabbitears inhabit the space. The subjects facing the camera and television are displayed as silhouettes of static while the -background remains crisp and clear.  The rabbitear antenna on the TV can be manipulated by the viewer to increase/decrease the “reception” of those inhabiting the TV screen space.

The problem is it has been incredibly hard to find cool looking old style rabbitears these days and finding a cool old cabinet tv? Forget about it. Also with all the adaptors I have to go through from my tv transmitter into the computer, the signal looks more like pirated cable than bad reception. But maybe that’s just as meaningful.