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After Image opens January 29 at School 33 from 6-9 p.m.

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video still from Martijn Hendriks’ Untitled (or The Birds without the birds, or give us today our daily terror) (2008-ongoing)
After Image
Curated by Jamillah James
Opening Reception January 29th 6-9pm
Exhibition January 29 – March 27, 2010

The term afterimage describes when an image persists in one’s vision, even after exposure to the original image has ceased.

The artists in this exhibition employ aggressive appropriative strategies—hacking, remixing, erasing, translation, and so forth—to disorient viewer expectations and to offer new interpretative and narrative possibilities.

Matters of ownership and authorial privilege are now greatly problematized by the volume and fluid interchange of information on the Internet. Artists are reflecting this cultural shift with a more deliberate presence—literal or technical—in their work, and, especially, interjected into that of another. Unusual juxtapositions invest mundane or familiar objects with new vitality and forge new histories. Simple cut-and-paste (by hand or digitally) becomes a revelatory and critical act. Referencing and borrowing are now commonplace, and are no longer exclusive to new media work.

Ultimately, these practices exploit the rift between history and the formation of memory—how do we reconcile an image or object’s original intent, meaning, and context with new exposures? If an image has a past and a present, who determines its future and how? The artists selected for AFTER IMAGE take this moment as an invitation to intervene, and to further diffuse the concept of artist as sole maker of meaning.

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