Ingrid Burrington – Reconnaissance
Opening: 16 September 2016, 6pm
17 September – 11 November 2016
Dolziger Straße 31, 10247 Berlin
www.nomeproject.com <http://www.nomeproject.com/>
NOME is pleased to open „Reconnaissance", Ingrid Burrington’s debut solo show,
on 16 September 2016.
In „Reconnaissance", artist and writer Ingrid Burrington exposes the tension
between the awe inspired by digitally captured aerial landscapes and “the
imaginary objective truth of the God’s-eye view” (after Donna Haraway). The
series of large-scale lenticular prints of data centers, military sites, and
downlinks, suggests that while the scale and detail of satellite imagery is
fascinating, no view is total or definitive.
Each print shows a single, politically relevant, location captured at two
different points in time. As the viewer shifts from one side to the other, the
composite nature of the image is revealed, and with this, ideas about how the
maps we consult on our screens are manipulated and always changing.
The bird’s eye perspectives of „Reconnaissance" tap into histories of aerial
views, from the panoramic inventions of the nineteenth century to Landsat
imagery and Google Maps. As Burrington writes in her research notes: “The view
from nowhere doesn’t emerge from nowhere... it’s the result of decades of
aerospace and electrical engineering research and development.” What emerges is
a doubling of the aesthetics of machine vision and the grounded infrastructures
– where satellites are launched or data is stored and circulated – that enable
it.
Ingrid Burrington’s practice focuses on mapping, documenting, and identifying
elements of network infrastructure, drawing attention to the often overlooked
or occluded landscapes of the internet. She has been artist in residence at the
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Eyebeam, the Center for Land Use
Interpretation, and a fellow at Data & Society. She writes for San Francisco
Art Quarterly, Creative Time Reports, The Nation and The Atlantic. She is a
member of Deep Lab, a collective of researchers, artists, writers and engineers
that explores themes of control, power, technology and society.
More information on the NOME website: http://nomeproject.com
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