NO THERE THERE 

January 24 – February 21, 2015 at Transfer Gallery

NO THERE THERE is an exhibition of new work from Brooklyn-based artist Jamie Zigelbaum that explores the materiality of the digital image. This exhibition begins with two of the artist’s earlier works Pixel and Six-Forty by Four-Eighty but moves beyond Zigelbaum’s interest in the “recontextualization of the pixel” to question the role of the screen itself — moving images are programmatically constructed and displayed in unconventional formats, hardware is sliced and exposed, and interactive artworks engage the viewer in reconsidering the false dichotomy of the natural and the digital.

 

100 Hours per Minute, 2015 by Jamie Zigelbaum Materials: MicroTile display, LCD screen, Mac Mini, software, YouTube, Twitter Size: 80” × 60” × 12” & 8.5” × 7” x 0.5” (Transfer Gallery installation) Duration: Algorithmically generated video (variable length) 100 Hours per Minute is an interactive artwork that displays averages of multiple YouTube videos overlaid and played together. Visitors tweet their searches to @100_HPM using an algorithmically generated, one-time hashtag displayed on the installation’s secondary display. These queries go into a queue and are played without sound on the primary screen. The videos are then uploaded to YouTube and a link is tweeted back to the searcher.

100 HOURS PER MINUTE, 2015

Materials: MicroTile Display, LCD Screen, Mac Mini, Software, YouTube, Twitter

Size: 80” × 60” × 12” & 8.5” × 7” x 0.5” (Transfer Gallery installation) 

Duration: Algorithmically generated video (variable length)

Edition: Unique

 

SEQUENCE IN PARALLEL, 2015 by Jamie Zigelbaum Materials: LCD Displays, Raspberry Pis, Software, Cables, Hardware Size: 32 × 68 × 20 in Films Screened: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, 142/20 min) The Holy Mountain (1973, 115/20 min) Total Recall (1990, 113/20 min) eXistenZ (1999, 97/20 min) Sequence in Parallel is a video installation that presents films across twenty small LCD screens. The grid displays one film at a time, divided evenly into sequential segments that play simultaneously across the screens, allowing the viewer to survey the entire film object as a whole.

SEQUENCE IN PARALLEL, 2015

Materials: LCD Displays, Raspberry Pis, Software, Cables, Hardware

Size: 32 × 68 × 20 in

Films Screened:
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, 142/20 min) 
The Holy Mountain (1973, 115/20 min) 
Total Recall (1990, 113/20 min)
eXistenZ (1999, 97/20 min)

Edition: Unique

 

Doorway to the Soul, 2015 by Jamie Zigelbaum Materials: Microtile Display, Mac Mini, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Webcam Video, Software Size: 66 × 12 × 12 in Doorway to the Soul is a digital sculpture that displays the faces of mechanical turk workers as they are recorded. These workers are paid $0.25 to stare into their webcam for one minute. The videos are scaled to life-size and played directly on a display mounted at average human height.

DOORWAY TO THE SOUL, 2015

Materials: Microtile Display, Mac Mini, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Webcam Video, Software 

Size: 66 × 12 × 12 in

Edition: Unique

 

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MY TELEVISION, 2015

Materials: The Artist’s 50” TV, Resin

Size: 56.5 × 34.5 × 4 in 

Edition: Unique

 

Pixel is an interactive light installation activated by human touch. A single pixel, at a meter square, Pixel is the fundamental element of digital representation. It is just like the pixels in your smartphone, laptop, or television—the tiny, formless objects radiating from behind glass, existing forever removed from our bodies and beyond our grasp. Ubiquitous yet invisible, they show us everything. Pixel by Jamie Zigelbaum 2013 Size: 1000 × 1000 × 80 mm Materials: Glass, Corian, LEDs, Electronics, Software Design & Fabrication: Jamie Zigelbaum & Midnight Commercial Video: White Film jamiezigelbaum.com/pixel

PIXEL, 2013

Materials: Glass, Corian, LEDs, Electronics, Software

Size: 100 × 100 × 8 cm

Edition: 6 + 2 APs

http://www.jamiezigelbaum.com/pixel

 

http://www.zigelbaumcoelho.com/six-forty-by-four-eighty/ Six-Forty by Four-Eighty is an interactive lighting installation composed of an array of magnetic, physical pixels. Individually, pixel-tiles change their color in response to touch and communicate their state to each other by using a person's body as the conduit for information. When grouped together, the pixel-tiles create patterns and animations that can serve as a tool for customizing our physical spaces. By transposing the pixel from the confines of the screen and into the physical world, focus is drawn to the materiality of computation and new forms for design emerge. Six-Forty by Four-Eighty was created by Zigelbaum + Coelho for the Design Miami/ Basel 2010 W Hotels Designer of the Future Award.

SIX-FORTY BY FOUR-EIGHTY, 2010
with Marcelo Coelho

Materials: ABS/Polycarbonate, Glass, LEDs, Electronics, Software, Steel

Size: 60” × 36” × 6”

Edition: 8 + 2 APs

http://www.jamiezigelbaum.com/six-forty-by-four-eighty