Saturday, September 7th, 2013 – Saturday, October 26th, 2013
Curated by Darin Beasley + Hope Hilton
Athens, GA, USA – August 7, 2013 – What happens when something on the internet becomes tangible? When experiments come off of the screen and into real space? What shifts occur in our psyches and experience? CONTENT is an exhibition that connects the art of the essay, poetry, fiction, photography, drawing, sculpture, video, film, music, and performance – almost all culled from the internet. Hosted by ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, the curators, Darin Beasley (Marco Polo Arts Mag, Tiger Train) and Hope Hilton (Artistic Director, ATHICA), are bringing the world to Athens, Georgia, USA on September 7, 2013.
Although the dawn of the world wide web has graced us with more global perspective philosophically, we believe that we also crave the physical accounts of current ideas in 3-D (holding a book, looking at a painting, walking around a sculpture). This event continues and explores ideas behind the works, results in an unusually personal international conversation which is inspiring a new wave of thinking and collaborating in reality. The alchemy of CONTENT is in bringing artists together from all over the world via digital social communication, and then placing their work in an exhibition space that is a physical alternative reality to the web.
CONTENT features over 70 national and international artists from France, Germany, Mexico, Japan, Spain, London, Austria, Italy, United Arab Emirates, Portugal, Ireland, Africa, and the US, as well as over 25 local artists. With the ease of technology we are able to connect beyond previously prohibitive boundaries and have the ability to collaborate via email, social media, and artist websites to make conversations happen from all points of the globe. Artists, writers, and thinkers together have a platform that is both global and intimate, usually without the restrictions and degradation of politics, religion, and war. Futurist Arthur Clarke pronounced in his pivotal 1962 essay Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” This is our launching pad.
LIST OF PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Addison Adams Georgia
Forrest Aguar Georgia
Malcolm Alexander Georgia
Susanne Assmann Germany
Antonio Barrientos Mexico City
Sarah Beckwith Philadelphia
Max Beeching Georgia
Tarik Berber London
Joshua Bienko Tennessee
Benjamin Blaquart France
Josiah Tate Burns Santa Cruz
Sarah Chacich Brooklyn
Holly Coulis New York
Anna Cox Georgia
Anthony Cudahy Brooklyn
Gabriel Cymerman-Bird Georgia
Santiago de Paoli Argentina
Kim Deakins Georgia
Valentina Dell’Aquila Italy
Lisa Duroux France
Régis Fabre France
Jeff Fallis Georgia
Jennifer Farmer (Coffee+Sponge) London
Andy Giannakakis Georgia
Christopher Dede Giddens Georgia
Baptiste Grandin France
Susana Guadencio Portugal
Emily Hadland Georgia
Jennifer Hartley Georgia
Prosper Hedges Georgia
Jenny Gropp Hess Georgia
Stephen Gropp Hess Georgia
Brian Hitselberger Georgia
Ridley Howard New York
Hamlin Jackson Georgia
Kristin Karch Georgia
Kim Kirby Georgia
Justin Klocke Georgia
Cody John Laplante New Hampshire
Brittany Lauback Georgia
Scott Lawrence Brooklyn
Tyler Leslie Georgia
Sean Lotman Kyoto
Sabrina Orah Mark Georgia
Kellianne McCarthy Philadelphia
Joy McKinney NYC
Jessica Mein UAE
Erin Moore Georgia
Mickaël Muraz Paris, Dublin
Alejandro Negueruela Bilboa
Samuel Overington (Coffee+Sponge) London
Daniel Scott Parker Chicago
David Phillips Los Angeles
Jeffrey James Prater North Carolina
Remo Rauscher Austria
Kathryn Refi Georgia
Ariana Reines Brooklyn
Christine Sajecki Georgia
Andreas Scheffer Berlin
Spenser Simrill Georgia
Laura Solomon Georgia
Emma Spertus Oakland
Aja Steele Georgia
Maya Stein Georgia
Cullen Toole Georgia
Steven Trimmer Georgia
David Trinidad Chicago
Anna Watson Georgia
Elvia Wilk Berlin
Mary Wilson Georgia
Jim Winters San Francisco
Anthony Wislar Georgia
Maximilian Woehler Germany
Mathew Wojciechowski Seattle
Zachery Wood Brooklyn