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ARTCAT



Joseph Farbrook: Nostalgia for Neverwas

AC Institute
547 West 27th Street, 6th floor
Chelsea
October 22 - November 28, 2009
Reception: Thursday, October 22, 6 - 8 PM
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About Nostalgia for Neverwas:

The intent of my work is to explore the mirages that we create for each other and the limits of virtuality. By virtuality, I mean things such as countries, ownership, advertising, news media, the Internet and various communications by proxy. By recontextualizing reality from the viewpoint of a virtual environment, it becomes possible to de-familiarize and destabilize the everyday illusions; the ones that have become so commonplace that they are no longer visible.

Nostalgia for Neverwas is a mixture of old and new technologies and styles. It is a joining and a recombinant hybrid of a fictionalized past and an idealized future. As we find ourselves immersed in turbulence and uncertainty, perhaps sleepless with anxiety, one may feel a pull toward a seemingly weightless past; a simpler time that moved at a pace slower and more comprehensible. As the wavy lines clear and the focus sharpens, it emerges that this past is so edited and revised, that if the same were to be applied to the present, there would be a longing only for this moment.

About Joseph Farbrook:

Joseph Farbrook grew up in New York City and Santa Fe, raised by his father, a concrete poet and his mother, a painter. Farbrook attended the University of Colorado focusing on performance and narrative, where he wrote electronic music, poetry and fiction. Becoming interested in a more immersive approach to narrative, he began using computers and the Internet as creative media. Subsequently discovered by the art department, he was offered a fellowship to pursue an MFA in digital art. Working in a visual arts environment, Farbrook began creating electronic installations, interactive video and virtual reality narratives. He also experimented with media-reflexive live performances mixed with interactive screen projections. Farbrook’s latest work explores the intersections between video, video games and sculpture.

Farbrook exhibits both nationally and internationally. Recent venues include the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, La Fabrica Arte Contemporaneo in Guatemala, The International Center of Bethlehem in Palestine, as well as venues in Mexico, Chile, Korea and the USA. Farbrook is presently an Assistant Professor of interactive media and game development at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. For more information please see: http://farbrook.net.

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