Grant Miller, Untitled (UA-33), 2006
Friday night the Black and White Gallery in Chelsea opens Constructed Realities, a show by Kansas City-based artist Grant Miller. The work, seen here, certainly is an attempt to depict network culture in a colorful, party-like-it’s-1992 way. The paintings recall Julie Mehretu’s layered, map-like creations, but without the cultural and political critique. (Detroit Art Institute reopened November 23 with Mehretu’s show City Sitings.) Miller’s world is a multihued Tron.
Julie Mehretu, Black City, 2007
Networks are all the rage this week. The Living presented The Living City project at the Van Allen Institute. I am still not sure why coolhunter DeeDee Gordon was asked to be part of the conversation, but then I had to leave early. I must have missed that part of the puzzle. (She did look surprisingly sedate with long, dark hair and a black ensemble. I was hoping for some bling.)
More on Friday: The Architecture League launches the Situated Technologies Pamphlet series with Urban Computing and Its Discontents. Adam Greenfield, Mark Shepard, and Eric Paulos will gather for a panel, which hopefully will expand upon ideas brought up in last year’s conference.
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