INFORMATION (Today) at Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
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Like it or not, we are surrounded. There is no escape from the incessant circulation of details that drives this 20-first-century, details-based mostly capitalism. Encrypted networks, electronic currencies, synthetic intelligence, knowledge harvesting, algorithmic biases, sentient equipment: these are just some of its consequences. The proliferation of information and facts, and data’s nebulous modes of circulating now basically condition our existence.
“INFORMATION (Currently)” is a team exhibition conceived as a free response to the legendary Info show at New York’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MoMA), curated by Kynaston L. McShine in 1970. MoMA’s exhibition emerged out of the context of spectacular advancements in conversation technologies at the conclude of the 1960s, a time period by now then currently being heralded as the ´Information Age´. Fifty decades on, “INFORMATION (These days)” functions new and the latest do the job by sixteen artists from about the world, all born considering that the tumultuous information explosion that at first prompted the works in the 1970 MoMA display. The artists in this latest exhibition perform in a range of media and represent a broad selection of artistic positions, and whether they examine interaction technologies, surveillance, details methods, or economical speculation, info arguably condenses to grow to be the quasi-medium of their perform.
Nevertheless “INFORMATION (Nowadays)” also intentionally refuses to in shape the image 1 might most instantly conjure of a demonstrate addressing this matter, both a dry and objective, truth-dependent assembly of black and white paperwork or buzzing with substantial tech pc-managed devices or featuring what has been referred to as Put up- Online Artwork. Playful, colorful, materially complex, study-laden, speculative, immersive: “INFORMATION (Nowadays)” lays out an evidently contradictory array of material and immaterial artworks that wrestle with our essential reliance on facts in vastly various methods.
Taking part artists: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, American Artist, Alejandro Cesarco, Simon Denny, Marguerite Humeau, Zhana Ivanova, Tobias Kaspar, Gabriel Kuri, Liu Chuang, Ima-Abasi Okon, Laura Owens, Trevor Paglen, Sondra Perry, Cameron Rowland, Sung Tieu, and Nora Turato.
At Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
till April 24, 2025
