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ok finally! here are some pics (I couldn't think to take any at the opening- wish I had but I was way too overwhelmed and talking to everyone- so we went back to get some installation shots a few days later). Here's the accompanying text:

December 10 - Jan 27, 2007
Darlene Charneco: Gameland
Reception: Thursday Dec 14, 6-8pm


Morgan Lehman is pleased to present Gameland, an exhibition of new mixed media works by Darlene Charneco.

Through the images in Gameland, Charneco continues to explore the meeting points of real life and virtual life, concepts mined in earlier exhibitions with Morgan Lehman Gallery, Everywhere and Cyburbia. In this exhibition, Charneco investigates social networks and the gradual reorganization of information on the web into shareable and intuitively navigable 3D spaces. She is inspired by the blurring boundaries between dream and waking activities, the implications of our rapidly increasing interconnectivity and the evolution of an accessible collective memory.

Ms. Charneco's work draws on a number of sources, including network theory, geographic information systems, video games, virtual worlds, childhood toys and educational tools. It is informed by her research and participation in online communities such as Myspace, LiveJournal and Flickr and an experimental community project called BetterWorldIsland within the 3D virtual world of SecondLife.

Ms. Charneco uses household nails, acrylic, enamel, glitter, model houses and trees, and multiple layers of resin to create 3-dimensional artworks which represent various aspects of these visualizations.

"From an aerial view, it is hard to ignore the similarities of our cities and roads to the internal structures of large and complex organism. One might consider the Web as a growing nervous system, full of sensors, gathering and sending information to and fro."

"What is our role within this organism?"

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Still a week behind on updating here...I'm trying...ok...last weekend was -scopeHamptons. Running about with the lovely Amber and Blackwatch and the german sisters, Vitamin V and [livejournal.com profile] __carina__.

I enjoyed -scope a lot. GOod connect with John of Ada Gallery..the guy is SO nice each time we meet and I love the aesthetic/vibe of his booths. I was particularly delighted by works by Kate Woodliff there...extremely quirky and sweet fabric collages pinned to the wall. Satisfying my DIY and art mesh longings. He wants me to come and show my Gameland works at his gallery in Richmond in April(:)!), woohoo for getting to explore new unknown areas!

I bought a book by Franco Mondini-Ruiz called High Pink: Tex-Mex Fairy Tales....couldn't resist the combination of fake food sculpture and Sandra Cisneros quotes and essays.

But I Absolutely and seriously fell in love with one artwork that I can't stop thinking about. Patte Loper's small watercolor 'Visitation' at LyonsWier gallery....I want this piece desperately....for all it represents for me. ugh. it. makes. my. soul. cry. :
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A friend wrote to me:
"I wanted to tell you...
There is a new sculpture uptown that may interest you the next time you venture into the city... James went to midtown & checked it out / reported back...said he had to wait only 10 minutes on a Thursday afternoon on line but thinks it would be hectic on a weekend...

It is a spaceship/UFO where you go inside & they (futristic nurses) connect electrodes to your head... then they show how you connect with people EVERYWHERE & it starts showing your brainwaves, light impulses, sounds etc in combination/stimulation/reaction to the 3 other folks in the room hooked up w/ electrodes. Its about 7 -8minutes long...... her idea is about how people everywhere are connected or something...;)"

GAAA!?!
SO of course I had to go see. B and I went in on Wednesday..


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