Mark Moore Gallery artist Jason Salavon will be opening his project for the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Virginia on June 15th.
A Seamlessness Between Things
(Parametric Activity Center), 2013
custom software, handcrafted tables, 1969 LP
record, vintage engravings, computers,
projectors
variable dimensions
Courtesy of Ronald Feldman Gallery
Salavon’s Taubman project, A Seamlessness Between Things (traveling straight from its debut in New York), consists of 10 real-time video projections of synthesized data. This interactive room-sized work takes input from masses of public, communally generated information from the Internet and TV signals to reveal unexpected images and juxtapositions. Viewers are invited to manipulate control devices – pushbuttons, knobs, and joysticks – embedded in tables in the gallery. The audience can change the projected images, although often the “cause/effect” relationships are purposefully opaque. This “feed aggregator,” as Salavon calls it, at times appears as a collage of visual and textural information that walks the line between abstract and representational art. With this installation, Salavon highlights the increasing “game-ification” of contemporary life as evidenced by such ubiquitous phenomena as online social networks and smart phones.
Ultimately, Salavon uses computers to explore the underlying biological and societal systems that inform our identities and unite us all. As he explains: “I am at once an individual human, a collection of differentiated cells…a part of a community, a social class, a race. I am all these things simultaneously and the distinctions are only a matter of point of view.
Born in 1970 in Indianapolis, Jason Salavon has an MFA from Art Institute Chicago, IL. He has had numerous solo shows nationally and internationally, including in New York; Chicago; Los Angeles; Washington, D.C.; Cologne; Seoul; London; and Paris. Salavon’s work is featured in many important collections, such as those of the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, TX; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Salavon lives and works in Chicago, IL, and is represented by galleries around the world, key being Mark Moore Gallery, CA and Ronald Feldman Fine Art, NY.
The project will open Saturday, June 15, 2013 and will be on view until Saturday, August 31, 2013
Exhibition installation detail, Ronald Feldman Gallery, 2013
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