FIELD OF VISION : NEW YORK
The Lab Gallery
501 Lexington Avenue
New York
NY10017
USA
13 – 18 September 2004
CURATORS:
Stephan Hausmeister (UK), Dominick Lombardi (USA)
ORGANIZING ARTISTS:
Paul Dacey (USA), Alison Dalwood (UK), Jenny Kao Yuan
(Taiwan - USA) and Michael Wright (UK)
'Field of Vision : New York' investigates how people from
across the world view the city. Over 900 images about
New York were sent in by e-mail from artists whose home
countries are as far afield as Taiwan, Mexico, Brazil,
Finland, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Slovenia, Chile, Nigeria,
Senegal, Singapore, USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Ireland,
Australia, Spain, Italy and South Africa.
Several hundred images were selected from this unique
image bank, printed out postcard size and assembled into
a billboard format collage on location at the lab gallery,
New York. Using low tech cut and paste methods the organizing
artists worked together to incorporate the material into
the surface of the work. The general topography of New
York – corners of buildings, pavements and other
ubiquitous elements of the city, formed the background
of the collage.
The innovative structure of the project bridges live art
and internet based formats and creates an interface between
the synthetic digital world of virtual reality and the
physical world we inhabit. Building the wall from collaged
material sent in by one group of artists and edited by
the organising artists involves deconstructing and reconfiguring
narratives and mediating between cultural and media conventions.
In this unique event there is no pre-conceived outcome
for the work and in this way Field of Vision: New York
is a vital means of exploring the spaces we inhabit and
making sense of our present time and multiplicity of perceptions
- our collective field of vision.
PROJECT DIRECTOR:
Stephan Hausmeister / UK
DEVELOPMENT & FUNDING:
Alison Dalwood / UK
THEORY & CONTEXT:
Malcolm Ferris / UK
FIELD OF VISION : NEW YORK HAS BEEN SUPPORTED BY:
artistsprinting, London / UK
Faculty of Art and Design, University of Hertfordshire
/ UK
Greenwood Global Media Corp, New York / USA
Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt a.M. / D
Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus / D
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