eronrauch ([info]eronrauch) wrote,
@ 2008-02-09 12:19:00
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Thanks and Photos
Hiya! I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who came out to support my show "Leveling" this past Friday. It was a great deal of fun to hang out, drink some beer and learn that an awfully large number of people, even in the pretentious art world, are addicted to WoW. There was a touch of vertigo involved in trying to whip my brain between discussing proper gem-slotting on beginning raid warlocks speced affliction and theorizing on the visual implications of realism's lineage in virtual social spaces. Here are a few shots that I snapped while I was milling and geeking and arting.









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[info]animeangel
2008-02-09 08:29 pm UTC (link)
THANKS FOR THE ADD. Pictures need more things up peoples' noses.

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[info]neku_niku
2008-02-09 09:15 pm UTC (link)
yo~
sorry I couldn't make it to this :(
I was working and didn't make it outta there until midnight that night. i was very much trying to work QUICKLY to make it out before 11pm (to try and HAUL ASS over that direction) but alas all my planning were for not because of *whatever* project was being worked on that night.


I'm glad you had a successful show closing, and I'm very frustrated I was unable to go at any point (that gallery has WAY TOO LONG of a lunch hour, glenn and I did try to go when he was down here, but apparently our luck was not good)

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[info]neku_niku
2008-02-09 09:20 pm UTC (link)
ohhh yeah.. btw
neku_niku=Sheyne :D

it's a shitty screan name i made at 3am very drunk one night in college.. i should get around to making it less.. otaku-ritic...

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[info]yume_ninja
2008-02-10 09:01 am UTC (link)
heck yes. fun times.

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[info]onlypapermoon
2008-02-16 05:20 am UTC (link)
I was thinking the other day: didn't you start on this idea while you were at MCAD? I seem to recall something along similar lines.

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Good catch
[info]eronrauch
2008-02-16 10:14 am UTC (link)
Yeah, actually, variants of this project have been bouncing around in my head since about junior year in undergrad. I did a project for a class with Carl Raschke that was a very simple version of examining the spaces of online games by re-imagining them as photo-historical by converting other people's screen shots to faux-b&w images, but that was only for a web site. Then I also further explored the psychological notions of online gaming in the class with David Goldes, where I did that massive expressionistic installation in my dorm called "Sky/Ground" that was highly inspired by Kaprow's "happenings." And even in grad school I kicked around and installed a few projects specifically about WoW and Everquest for a class I had with Michael Asher which dealt with the conversion of space, both physically and artistically, into fantasy. But it really took a combination of all of that gestation to come to terms with the very complex and in some ways, anti-art, modes of these games. Not that the games themselves aren't perhaps really fantastic art, but rather that, like Murakami, dealing with objects of media culture require such specificity and finesse to convert to something that exists in more metacritical artistic way. I'm feeling more and more convinced that these works have much more in common with architectural photography (or, owing to the lesser-known status of the tradition, also of garden photography) than perhaps landscape or street photography, as my personal expirience with the subject (and the virtual objects) continues...

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Re: Good catch
[info]eronrauch
2008-02-16 10:17 am UTC (link)
Edit: Also, I have to give some major credit to LA photographer and good friend Greg DeStefano for piquing my interest in the idea of the "glitch" as a natural space that often exists beyond controlled intentions as a prime location for art. We spent many hours arguing about glitches and art before I was able to make the connection to how intertwined glitches are to Dada, modernism and the most primal expressions of the abstract in modern life.

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