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September Issue 2007
MODERNISME, The Gallery at Avondale in Charleston, SC, Celebrates First Year Anniversary
MODERNISME, The Gallery at Avondale in Charleston, SC's West Ashley, presents a group exhibition entitled Show You are Where, featuring works by seven Modernisme artists, including Nathan Durfee, Sarah Bernardi, Katie Leonard, Kevin Hoth, Dorothy Netherland, Glenn Friedel, and Julie Henson. The exhibit is a celebration of the gallery's first anniversary. The show will be on view from Sept. 8 - 22, 2007.
Show will explore perspectives on the changes current technology forces on the individual and communication. Are we more connected or isolated? What is the effect on personal connection and experience? Positive and negative responses will be represented in Show, and all will be represented differently through each artist.
"Current technology, specifically the Internet, is manipulating the concept of the individual," says Nathan Durfee. "Via blogs, YouTube postings, personal web pages, and social networking sites, we blip onto our soap box top - an impersonal avatar. We drown in individual opinions and data while simultaneously trying to push our own voice into the network. In social experiences, we text message rather than talk. Networking sites clip our communication, limiting it to wall posts, picture comments, pokes, and bit-messages. Video games and TV mimic our movements without requiring us to move off the sofa (unless you are using a Wii). Tech-mediation is the high fructose corn syrup of interaction: barely a substitute."
Kevin Hoth offers the following, "I think creative use of technology is the only thing that will save us and our planet. Not all video games are bad and not all networking sites make you a false person. New technology (and by technology I include original creative thinking) can erase pollutants, eradicate waste and poverty."
"Some religions/philosophies think we are here to serve others and there is no 'self', so how do we use all this to look out for others, and how difficult it is becoming to maintain that belief with all this emphasis and obsession with the individual and concept of self," says Sarah Bernardi.
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