Fontana 2.0
Next week my solo exhibition at the Heldscalla Foundation in Second Life will open. Join us Thursday May 17th, at 9pm for the opening reception at this SLURL. There will be an opening at 9pm BST to kick things off and another at 9pm EST. The final event of the night will be at 9pm PDT or Second Life time.
Here is the show statement:
Fontana 2.0 is an exhibition of new works that focus on the web 2.0 ideology of socially motivated peer production and recontextualization of the artist himself through previous works. "As an artist, I am interested in the sequential narratives of comics, digitally manipulated imagery, the aesthetics of visual culture, and how little visual information we need to construct compelling narratives. Most of my work has focused on symbols of cartoon expression, incorporating themes of violence, sexual fetishism, gaming, and both popular and subculture."
ReCon(Text) #2
Using elements from Anthony's previous works over the past two years,
this interactive work calls for audience participation in two ways.
First, gallery goers may interact with the control panel located on the
gallery floor to change the images along the left wall. In doing so,
many variant compositions emerge. Audience members are encouraged to
alt-zoom-in and take screenshots of the compositions they create then
upload and add them to the animated slide shows off to each side. (Do
so by crtl-dragging the screenshot texture over the slide show prim.)
"My hope is to engage the audience through collaborative creation of
new compositions and narratives. Essentially, I am releasing the
elements found in this work through a Creative Commons Sampling License. Over
the course of the show and with the help of Second Life residents, I
would like to see each slide player evolve into its own stand alone
work."
YouToo
The other set of works in this exhibition explore the modes, speed, and
content of information transfer in the Web 2.0 era. The cornerstone of
this series is the image titled "YouToo".
"Mona Lisa represents 500 years of critical discourse on one singular
work of art. I am very interested in the rate at which society must
process and evaluate new media. Does meaning emerge through the
combination of transient images, and if so, when does one stop to
contemplate and understand that meaning?"
