AMODA Presents our Fall Exhibition:
Opening: Thursday, Oct 3rd, 2002
Members' Exhibition Preview, 6-8pm
(Exhibition artist Reinhild Beuther will speak about her work)
Public Opening Reception, 8-10pm
Complimentary beverages and hors d'oeuvres will be
provided.
Friday Oct 4th- Saturday Oct 19th, 2002
M-F 12-6pm, Sa 10am-6pm, Th 12-10pm
Design
Center of Austin
3601 S. Congress at Penn Field, Bldg C
Austin TX 78704 [map]
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Digital technology has flared, perhaps frayed, the concept
of identity in the new millennium. "Identity Paradox"
addresses the evolution of identity by revealing the lies,
and the truth, in the image.
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Free Admission
The Aritsts:
Curator's Statement:
Artists have often used art to examine themselves, their
own experience and their identity. In the 21st century, thanks
largely to digital technology, identity has become more fluid,
more slippery than ever before. Because so much of digital
technology is used to represent people (as recorded voices,
images, video or text), it allows people to alter their identity,
from touching up visual blemishes to posing as a completely
fabricated character. The permeance of digital technology
has made identity tweaking a national pastime: computers have
been a mask for felons, a vanity for the narcissistic, and
a costume shop for the adolescent. The technology to control
identity is not just trapped in cyberspace, either: it also
facilitates the alteration of the ultimate image, our bodies,
the only thing between our selves and the rest of the world.
And while computers bestow greater accuracy and control to
plastic surgeons, they also grant a new set of eyes for neuroscientists
and geneticists who, too, are undermining traditional notions
of "person" and "self."
In "Identity Paradox," we feature four contemporary
artists who use digital technology to examine the fluidity
of identities, their own and others’. They represent
their subjects as fractured, or malleable, or mercurial, or
compound. They have chosen digital technology as the family
of tools which can best express the structure and spirit of
their ideas. But the artists in "Identity Paradox"
also comment on the way digital technology has flared, perhaps
frayed, the concept of identity in the new millennium. "Identity
Paradox" addresses the evolution of identity by revealing
the lies, and the truth, in the image.
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