The show is the first of Alexandra Kleiman’s Active Curation series of one night pop-up exhibitions using the creation of art as a means of non-verbal exploration of a concept. This show focuses on “Digital Flux” and the multifarious effects of digital media on our thinking and structural functions.

The show acknowledges the fact that verbal methods of examination and analysis only extend so far, and that non-verbal consideration is integral to a complete and comprehensive meditation on any subject. The works included in the show were all made specifically for the show in an effort to actively contemplate and express the artists’ stances on their relative personal understanding of how the advent/their quotidian use of the Internet, social networking Web Sites, and other digital media and devices have affected the way the artists think, function, perceive and present themselves to the world. The pieces respond to the concept in a variety of ways and use a plethora of different media and techniques such as interactive sound, physical installation, drawing, painting, the Internet itself, and combinations thereof.

Not only is the curation involved in the show “active” in the sense that the show’s concept functioned as a stimulus for thought and actual art production, but the show is also socially active and involved in that a percentage of the proceeds from the show go to the One Laptop per Child organization, committed to using pervasive technologies to develop more widespread educational opportunities to underprivileged children around the globe.

The show’s contextual choices are also active and innovative in the curator’s choice of setting. She chose to use a residential space rather than a more commonly used commercial one (gallery, museum, institution) in order to allow viewers a freer, more subjective and more comfortable experience.

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