Minnesota Street Outpost

TRANSFER DOWNLOAD

July 30

through September 9, 2016

CLOSING RECEPTION

Friday, September 9th 2016

from 6 – 8 PM
Minnesota Street Project
1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 10002

OPEN HOURS

Tuesday-Saturday: 11am-6pm
http://minnesotastreetproject.com/visit

TRANSFER welcomes groups and parties for private viewings in the media gallery and the surrounding great hall. Contact the director@transfergallery.com to arrange a private evening or weekend tour for your friends or colleagues.

IN PARTNERSHIP with NIIO

NIIO

Niio is the trusted place to manage, distribute and display moving image and new digital artforms from 4K video art to VR. TRANSFER features a curated collection of artworks from the gallery’s inventory using the Niio platform and its dedicated 4k/60fps ArtPlayer. The installation in the media gallery will give collectors an opportunity to take the technology for a test-drive. https://www.niio.com/

This summer, TRANSFER installs an outpost in San Francisco inside the media gallery at the Minnesota Street Project – the NYC-based gallery presents an immersive three-channel audio-visual exhibition, designed to engage the newly launched Dogpatch-based contemporary art space.

Installed as a series of hyperlinked solo exhibitions, The ‘TRANSFER Download’ invites artists to present custom three-channel solo presentations of moving image. Each work is accessible via a playlist, creating a layered salon-style exhibition format first tested during Art Basel Miami in 2014. Selecting an artwork from the control screen changes over the entire installation space to feature a single work – formats include time-based narrative, generative 3D video, and looped moving images.

The ‘TRANSFER Download’ features a selection of new and existing works spanning themes of technology and the body, architectural space reimagined through moving images, and urban/glitch landscapes.

TRANSFER Director, Kelani Nichole

“This immersive installation invites the Bay Area to get intimate with new formats – presented in the slowdown summer months, the ‘TRANSFER Download’ creates a unique environment for viewing artworks. Featuring transitory media, ranging from VR to lenticular prints, the exhibition exemplifies the bifurcation of scarcity and authenticity in contemporary art. I hope to engage new audiences with my approach to supporting computer-based practices through exhibition and development in the art market.”

FEATURED ARTISTS


CLAUDIA HART – ‘Empire’
Hart surrounds the viewer with a continuous animation of a virtual monument that slowly decays, rotting as it transits from sunrise to sunset.


MARY ANN STRANDELL – ‘Tromploi’
Strandell considers the spatial anxieties within the constructs of place and nature. ‘Tromploi’ re­activates parts and pieces of her lenticular series, ‘Re­Material’, sourced from volumes of encyclopedias, postcards, photographs, as well as Google image repositories.


ROSA MENKMAN – ‘DCT: Syphoning’
Inspired by ‘Flatland’, Menkman tells the story of a father who introduces his son to different levels of compression; they move from dither, to lines, to macroblocks (the realm in which they normally resonate) to the ‘future’ realms of wavelets and vectors.


PHILLIP DAVID STEARNS – ‘Polar Visions 002’
Stearns reconstructs a sunset from its representation as a digital still; an exercise in reformulating machinic experience for humans.


RICK SILVA – ‘Vibes Accelerationist’
Silva’s 3D animation a features a slowly oscillating shaka / hang-loose gesture that generates a set of rapidly pulsating particle fields.


ROLLIN LEONARD – ‘Spinning Pinwheel of Death’
Leonard’s looped self portrait emulates a digital distortion – without employing any post-production effects – by using water as optics. His photographs are taken through drops of water, each droplet acts as a flexible, temporary lens.


LATURBO AVEDON – ‘ID’
A poetic visualization of the creation of personal metadata, for the identification of a digital self – born from code. In ‘ID’ LaTurbo addresses how social media platforms have continued to move toward the creation of authenticators adding real name policies and hungry terms of service to access to personal information.

Minnesota Street Project

1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA
Open Tuesday – Saturday from 11am-6PM and by Invitation
http://minnesotastreetproject.com/visit

July 30 – September 9th, 2016

TRANSFER welcomes groups and parties for private viewings in the media gallery and the surrounding great hall. Contact the director@transfergallery.com to arrange a private evening or weekend tour for your friends or colleagues.