Tuesday, June 12, 2012

A MUSINGplace ONLINE OUT OF NEW YORK

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Danyel Ferrari
b. Lewiston, ME
Concentration at Hunter: Combined Media
BFA/BA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2007

Untitled
Every PDF assigned throughout undergraduate and graduate degrees, partially eaten by termites
50 x 8 x 10”
If one is looking for an exemplar of a rich online exhibition – MUSINGplace –  this would be one even if it somewhat 'translates' the WHITEbox experience to a fairly standard DIGITALexhibit of current cultural production  – but one that is nonetheless rhizomic

It is however a richer experience than a print catalogue and again an exemplar for the replacement of so many mediocre, and expensive, hardcopy exhibition catalogues produced at great cost – typically redundant and found in a head, and all unread, in so many curators' offices

Reassuringly simple to navigate, THE HUNTER MFA THESIS EXHIBITION online, is worth 'surfing' through and from the site. Its a demonstration of the 'walllessness' of CYBERspace and the limits – mostly unnecessary limits – of imagination so evident in other online exhibition manifestations.

But Hunter College so often sets the pace in so many things. What is quite illuminating to look carefully at the language the institution and its 'students' use to describe their practices etc.

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