Image: Laura Splan
STUDIO PRACTICE WORKSHOP
APRIL 7, 2024 FROM 11AM–5PM
AT PLEXUS PROJECTS + ON ZOOM
with New Media Artist Laura Splan
Image: Laura Splan
STUDIO PRACTICE WORKSHOP
APRIL 6, 2024 FROM 11AM–5PM
AT PLEXUS PROJECTS + ON ZOOM
with New Media Artist Laura Splan
Image: Laura Splan
STUDIO PRACTICE WORKSHOP
FEB 24, 2024 FROM 11AM–5PM
AT PLEXUS PROJECTS + ON ZOOM
with New Media Artist Laura Splan
VITRINE EXHIBITION SERIES • FEB 01, 2024–MAR 01, 2024
EPHEMERA FOR THE EYES & EARS
A curated collection of editioned print and sound publications including artist books, zines, and vinyl projects.
ONGOING/BY APPOINTMENT
Image: Laura Splan
STUDIO PRACTICE WORKSHOP
DECEMBER 16, 2023 FROM 11AM–5PM ET
AT PLEXUS PROJECTS + ON ZOOM
with New Media Artist Laura Splan
EXHIBITION + RESIDENCY
JULY 23 – 30, 2023
Reception: July 26th from 6–8pm
Future Object is a two-person exhibition of artists Bobby Davidson and Danielle Ezzo and the release of Ezzo’s debut artist book “If Not Here, Then Where?”. Each has a practice that concerns itself with the postdigital and its relationship to technological expression. Together they experiment with the idea of the polysemantic word artifact as both physical and historical as well as digital and speculative. Their respective works are presented in tandem as a dialog circling similar lines of inquiry.
In Davidson’s "A Noiseless Patient Spider" (2023) he investigates the contrast between pre and post-AI creations and the abundance of digital detritus by repurposing mundane and banal imagery. He uses 3D software to create hyperreal digital fictions which are translated from photoreal renderings wrapping readymade objects. By creating these functional artifacts, he returns these uncanny assemblages back to their origins, while offering a fresh perspective on everyday objects.
In contrast, “If Not Here, Then Where?” (2021-22) Ezzo is concerned with the flow of historical artifacts and how they are sorted, searched, and translated where the form and meaning of objects shifts depending on how they are represented. She builds on and converses with The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s digital archive. Artifacts are then printed and constructed into delicate paper mobiles that are finally rephotographed into new and unlikely forms.
Bobby Davidson’s work has been exhibited with the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York, NY; MOMA PS1, New York, NY; The SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL; Tsinghua University, Beijing, CHN; The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY; Parsons Design Center, Shanghai, CHN and the Aperture Foundation, New York, NY; his work is part of the permanent collection at the SCAD Museum of Art, Yale University and the New School. Davidson lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Danielle’s work has been published in the Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Tate, Lenscratch, and Feature Shoot and exhibited in numerous exhibitions and festivals including the A.C. Institute, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Far Eastern Museum of Art, and Currents New Media Festival. She’s lectured at conferences, companies, and schools about the future of photography. Bylines include The New Inquiry, Magnum Photos, Art Observed, Right Click Save, Fellowship Trust, and Obscura Journal among others. She is the author of If Not Here, The Where? published by Silent Face Projects.
JUNE 10 – 11, 2023
FEATURED ARTISTS
Reuben Lorch-Miller, prints and sculpture
Radical Documents, limited edition vinyl
Land and Sea, artist books
ALSO ON VIEW
Earmark, selected works from the collection of artist editions
GUI/GOOEY, online group exhibition in our favorite browser :)
Laura Splan, selected works
Plexus Projects at Greenpoint Open Studios featured selected works by Greenpoint artist Reuben Lorch-Miller including sculpture, collage, and artist books. To accompany his artworks in the project space, Lorch-Miller curated a selection of limited edition vinyl releases by Radical Documents and editioned artist books published by Land and Sea.
Reuben Lorch-Miller is a Brooklyn, NY based artist, educator, and mental health counselor. His studio practice encompasses sculpture, collage, photography, artist books, music, and performance. He approaches his work from a perspective of curiosity and experimentation, understanding that meaning can be found within the process of doing. He has often exhibited at DIY art spaces, participated in artist-run residencies and produced multiple self-published zines and artist books.
Radical Documents was started in 2017 by artist Matthew Clifford Green. Originally based in Los Angeles, they moved to Chicago in the spring of 2021. The label focuses on unique, experimental, and obscure sounds from a wide range of artists spanning the globe. Land and Sea is a small press based in Oakland, California, run by Maria Otero and Chris Duncan. Land and Sea began in 2009 and has consistently been publishing small editions of books and records by artists from the Bay Area and beyond. Under the same moniker, Chris and Maria organize gatherings that celebrate the collectivity of the artistic and wider communities they are part of. In 2014, they opened a storefront studio in Oakland to host sound and art events, performances, art shows, and other happenings that combine visual, sonic, performance and literary arts, as well as pop-ups for other small publishers and cultural facilitators.
Earmark, is a curated collection of editioned print and sound publications including artist books, catalogs, zines, ephemera, and vinyl projects. The collection includes artists using a variety of printing processes ranging from laser cutting to Risograph to photocopy techniques. Artists in the collection include Katie Garth, Candace Williams, James Bascara, Jess Woods, Shane Smith, Brett Wallace, Dawn Light Blackman, Paul Shortt, Fritz Welch, De Kwok, Becca Albee, Chris Duncan, 57 Cell, Nathan Brown, Laura Splan, and others.
on view on a computer in the project space
Plexus Projects is pleased to present GUI/GOOEY the first in a series of online group exhibitions exploring technological representations of the biological world. The exhibition includes artworks that examine notions of “life” and “nature” with computational, digital, and virtual tools. The selected artists reflect a range of perspectives with international representation from thirteen countries. Together they simultaneously interrogate liminal sensations and materialities of membranes and interfaces, bits and bodies.
ARTISTS
Abraham Homer US; Alt23 MT; Andrea Mikyska DE; Anni Garza-Lau, Yunuen Vladimir, Hugo Escalpelo, Lilianha Dominguez MX; Brian Zegeer US; Cezar Mocan PT; Derzu Campos MX; Dexter Callender III US; Diana Scarborough UK; Dylan Rundle US; Elaine Whittaker CA; Electric Skin TR/FR/US/ES; Ellen Bjerborn SE; Finn Dugan US; James Bascara US; Jeff Thompson US; Josh Urban CA; Katina Bitsicas, Rachel Strickland US; Keaton Fox US; Kimberlee Koym-Murteira US; Lolo Ostia US; Lizz Thabet US; Mark Ramos, Ziyang Wu US/CN; Morgan Green, Andrew Bearnot US; Nina Sumarac CY; Reid Arowood US; Ryan Woodring US; Sarah Buckius US; Yousif Alzayed, Ben Glass, Yimei Zhu US
Laura Splan selected weavings, prints, and animations
Plexus Projects is pleased to present GUI/GOOEY, the first in a series of online group exhibitions exploring technological representations of the biological world. The exhibition includes artworks that examine notions of “life” and “nature” with computational, digital, and virtual tools. The selected artists reflect a range of perspectives with international representation from thirteen countries. Together they simultaneously interrogate liminal sensations and materialities of membranes and interfaces, bits and bodies.
ARTISTS
Abraham Homer US; Alt23 MT; Andrea Mikyska DE; Anni Garza-Lau, Yunuen Vladimir, Hugo Escalpelo, Lilianha Dominguez MX; Brian Zegeer US; Cezar Mocan PT; Derzu Campos MX; Dexter Callender III US; Diana Scarborough UK; Dylan Rundle US; Elaine Whittaker CA; Electric Skin TR/FR/US/ES; Ellen Bjerborn SE; Finn Dugan US; James Bascara US; Jeff Thompson US; Josh Urban CA; Katina Bitsicas, Rachel Strickland US; Keaton Fox US; Kimberlee Koym-Murteira US; Lolo Ostia US; Lizz Thabet US; Mark Ramos, Ziyang Wu US/CN; Morgan Green, Andrew Bearnot US; Nina Sumarac CY; Reid Arowood US; Ryan Woodring US; Sarah Buckius US; Yousif Alzayed, Ben Glass, Yimei Zhu US
cover image by Ryan Woodring
ARTIST RESIDENCY AWARD
Plexus Projects is pleased to award Huang Wei-Hsuan the 2023 Virtual Virtual Award for Extended Reality Artists. This remote residency award supports artists creating extended reality artworks with technologies including but not limited to VR, AR, and XR media. The selected artist receives funding to support their studio practice and research during a one-month remote residency. Virtual Virtual is supported by a grant from the Unnamed Fund.
Huang Wei-Hsuan (Taipei, Taiwan) creates works that provoke conversation between audiovisual and projection, aiming to trigger the imagination of audiences. During his remote residency he will develop Shifting Borders, an interactive two-person virtual reality experience. This project focuses on the creation of a digital twin for the spatial perception with individuals respectively sensing with HMDs. Participants are both audience and performance. They observe a virtual world in different corners and encounter physically together in a parallel universe. The question of “Where do I exist?” is blurred by the technology of a “digital twin” that exists in the cloud. Shifting Borders explores the dialogue between sensing and being sensed.
Work in progress by Ziyang Wu and Mark Ramos
Mark Ramos is a Brooklyn-based new media artist. Mark makes fragile post-colonial technology using web/software programming, physical computing (using computers to sense and react to the physical world), and digital sculpture/fabrication to create interactive work that facilitate encounters with our own uncertain digital futures. Mark is deeply committed to the ethos of open source: the free sharing of information and data + creative uses of technology. Mark has exhibited his work and lectured widely both online and AFK including as part of Rhizome's First Look: New Art Online with the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the Times Museum in Beijing, the Sichuan Biennial, Arebyte Gallery in London, and at the Peter Weibel Institute for Digital Culture in Vienna. He teaches Art after the Internet in the MFA Fine Arts Department at the School of Visual Arts, Form and Code at Pratt Institute, as well as Web Programming and Computer Principles in the Computer Science Department at NYU. You can also find him playing drums for various bands in Brooklyn.
Ziyang Wu is an artist based in New York and Hangzhou, currently teaching at School of Visual Arts and the School of Design and Innovation at China Academy of Art, and is a current member of New Museum’s art and technology incubator NEW INC. With an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a BFA from the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, his works have exhibited internationally, including Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Philadelphia, Rhizome at the New Museum in New York, Walker Art Center and Rochester Art Center in Minnesota, Academy Art Museum in Maryland, Today Art Museum, Times Art Museum and Song Art Museum in Beijing, Ming Contemporary Art Museum and Powerlong Museum in Shanghai, Medici Palace in Florence and Milan Design Week. Recent awards and residencies include “Kai Wu” Interdisciplinary Studio Residency at Media Art Lab at Times Museum, Residency Unlimited (RU) , MacDowell Fellowship, Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA) at Alfred University, Art(ists) on the Verge Fellowship by Northern Lights.mn and Jerome Foundation, AACYF Top 30 under 30 (Class of 2021), the AICAD Teaching Fellowship by Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design.
We will be finalizing production on a new generative artwork called #dump. #dump is a landfill of AI-generated objects made with text scraped from social media platforms. We’re using Unreal Engine 5 with and a custom Twitter bot (we’re calling dump-bot) and UE5 C++ Blueprints to generate the simulation. "dump-bot" lives on a hidden server at nyu computer science and monitors Twitter in real-time for the latest tweets and dumps them into our unreal landfill simulation. Certain hashtags trigger different AI object dumps related to the text content used to generate them. We used dreamfields3D GAN to generate the objects.
EARMARK COLLECTION
Recent Addition: Best Laid Plans, 2020, risograph-printed, spiral-bound publication, 5 x 7 x 1 inches, text by the artist
Within a childhood story about my personal tendency for order, I consider the merits of planning, asking for what each of us may be preparing, and noting how familiar objects and mundane rituals provide their own enduring appeal. The narrative empathizes with the impulse for escapism while also examining what is lost by withdrawing into oneself. — Katie Garth
Katie Garth is a print-based artist in Philadelphia. Her interdisciplinary work explores tedium as a coping mechanism for uncertainty, and often reflects her interests in language and independent publication. Garth received her MFA in Printmaking from the Tyler School of Art and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work has appeared in the Washington Post and PRINT. She is Visiting Assistant Professor of Printmaking at Sarah Lawrence College and teaches at several Philadelphia area-universities.
International Open Call / All Media
+Thematic Group Exhibition
+Solo Exhibitions
+Funded Remote XR Residency
Deadline: 12/15/22
Image: Laura Splan
STUDIO PRACTICE WORKSHOP
SEPTEMBER 3, 2022 FROM 11AM–5PM
AT PLEXUS PROJECTS + ON ZOOM
with New Media Artist Laura Splan
Image: Laura Splan
STUDIO PRACTICE WORKSHOP
JAN 15, 2022 FROM 11AM–5PM ET
AT PLEXUS PROJECTS + ON ZOOM
with New Media Artist Laura Splan
