Kathy Marmor :Everyday Uncertainties
Everyday Uncertainties, a new exhibit coming to the Breadboard’s EKG space at the University City Science Center showcases a series of sculptures, The Messengers, that viewers can interact with via text messaging and Twitter. A reception for the Everyday Uncertainties exhibition will be held on October 21st from 5-8:00pm at EKG, 3600 Market Street in Philadelphia. The exhibition runs from October 21-December 3, 2011.
In Everyday Uncertainties, artist Kathy Marmor explores how complex technologies shape and mirror the uncertainties of contemporary life. The exhibition features sculptures, an interactive installation and digital prints that are witty investigations of the paradox inherent in much of today’s technology in that we make intelligent machines do the most ordinary of tasks.
In The Messengers, Marmor mashes up social networks and text messages in a way that rearranges the flutter of electronic communications into poetry. In the installation the sculptures are interactive and the viewers are invited to text message the artwork via their mobile phones.
Marmor’s work Birding, is an intentionally amateur exploration into satellite reconnaissance. The interactive installation makes visible to the viewer the ordinarily invisible satellite surveillance, giving the viewer both the feeling the watching and being watched.
About the Artist:
Kathy Marmor has shown widely throughout United States and internationally. Her interactive installations have been exhibited at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles, Ciber@rts -Bilbao, Spain and New Forms festival in Vancouver, Canada. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY and Light Work in Syracuse, NY. Marmor’s writings about her interactive installations have been published in the journal Leonardo and the International Society of Electronic Artists. Kathy is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Vermont.
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