June 25, 2009

The art of Shane Hope

There's an upcoming show that people in the New York area may be interested in:

Shane Hope: Your Mom Is Open Source

June 26 – August 1, 2009
Opening: Friday, June 26, 6-8 PM
Winkleman Gallery, 637 West 27th Street, New York

From the website:
Winkleman Gallery is very pleased to present “Your Mom Is Open Source,” our first solo exhibition by New York-based artist Shane Hope. In his latest suite of Molecular Modeling prints (“Mol Mods”) and “Compile-a-Child" drawings, Hope collapses possible futures like technoprogressive child's play. Foreseeable advances in neuro-, cyber-, gene-, and nano-technologies will likely snowball our transition into “posthumans,” beings whose basic capacities so radically exceed those of present humans as to be no longer unambiguously human by our current standards. Molecular manufacturing, artificial general intelligence, and life extension technologies may make possible the printing of printers, inventing inventors, as well as the expansion of ontological wiggle-room into and across novel substrates.
Shane Hope: Yes, but [grey goo] will be our children.
"Yes, but [grey goo] will be our children"
Asserting that art can provide key pictorial explorations into the ramifications of more precise manipulations of the smaller basic building blocks, Hope's "Mol Mods" playfully unravel the world at these scales by foreshadowing newly fantastical conflations of building and growing. Rendered and built with customized versions of user-sponsored open-source molecular visualization systems, these hyper-detailed monotypes anticipate their own actualization by way of nanofacture and picture junk sculptures, seashell crafts, among other molecularly doodled composited chimeras each developing from an embryonic stage; animals fashioned from flowchart cells woven into food webs connected by arrows that hitherto indicated the folds and twists of proteins; carbon nanotube moths flapping amidst balloon animal monkey molecules and less definitive evolutures with buckyballs in their eyes.
Shane Hope: Junk DNA
"Junk DNA"

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I attended the Nyc transhumanist association meet up where Shane hope displayed hes art and I must say it was rather interesting. What was somewhat new to me was the concept of this nano cloud that can take any form based on desire.

Correction the cloud itself was not new to be, but the exploration of how it may work. The other thing I found interesting was he's answer to the question I asked the panel.

I asked them...
Does the future need us?

Shane's answer stood out to me.

we might vacation as humans. I started to apply that to the concept of simulation hypothesis and there no reason to believe were not taking such a vacation now and the universe, well what we think of the universe has already gone through the singularity.

Were just not consciously aware of it. This would be make the singularity point simply a point where we wake up to the reality of what already is.