PCAI is happy to announce that the PCAI collection artist Andrew Norman Wilson participates in the exhibition RANDOM-ACCESS MEMORY: Internet Art at The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA).
This exhibition taking place March 15-Sept. 27 brings together digital projects by three multimedia artists: Zhanyi Chen, Claire Hentschker, and Andrew Norman Wilson.
The Internet is the ubiquitous medium of 21st-century life and our primary mode of connection, entertainment, and research. Despite its familiarity, the Internet continuously resists predictability. RANDOM-ACCESS MEMORY frames the web as a living memory system—ever-changing, contradictory, and subject to distortion—where personal histories blur into collective narratives.
About Andrew Norman Wilson and his artwork:
Andrew Norman Wilson is a contemporary filmmaker who began his career making Internet-related video art, brings a critical eye to media systems.
Global Countdown (2011) assembles watermarked footage and sound from the stock asset marketplace Pond5.com into a looping spiral described by the artist as “a news program, completely devoid of human presence.” Stripped of context, these familiar visual cues take on a humorous and uncanny quality, hinting at how media aesthetics manufacture authority while also mimicking the non-stop rhythms of contemporary news cycles.
RANDOM-ACCESS MEMORY: Internet Art is curated by Andrew Witte, SBMA Curatorial Assistant of Photography and New Media.
Read more here.
Image Credit: Andrew Norman Wilson, Global Countdown (still), 2011. Single-channel video, 8:10 minutes. Courtesy of artist Andrew Norman Wilson.
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