Opening Friday, March 29, Shane Hope @ Winkleman Gallery
Shane Hope
Nano-Nonobjective-Oriented Ontographs and Qubit-Built Quilts
March 29 - May 4, 2013
Opening: March 29, 6-8 PM


Winkleman Gallery is very pleased to present Nano-Nonobjective-Oriented Ontographs and Qubit-Built Quilts, our third solo exhibition by New York artist Shane Hope.
Featuring two series of new work, the exhibition runs March 29 through
May 4, 2013. In the gallery project space, we will also present a
selection of Hope's "Folk-Computronium Laptops."
Accelerating progress in nanometer-scale science and technology continues to expand the toolkit with which we can eventually assemble things from the atom up. This will potentially give rise to nearly costless systems for controlling the structure of matter itself. In the interim, the 3D printing revolution is said to have already arrived, promising content-to-print solutions and on-demand means of increasingly customizable production. But molecular manufacturing and 3D printing won't merely make for an end to material scarcity as we know it. These so-called "abundance" technologies will make for objecthoods the likes of which we've not known and maybe can't know this side of some sort of technological singularity (i.e, the theoretical emergence of superintelligence through technological means beyond which events cannot be predicted). It's in anticipation of that reality race that Shane Hope's work starts.
To foreshadow an age of hacking matter, Shane Hope uses molecular modeling research software and crafts custom code to grow generative molecular designs and algorithmically automate alternative representations of nano-scaled structures. With intent to literally convert digital bits back into atoms and properly relate the operative ideologies of 3D-printing to the research and development of theoretical nanofacture, Hope has hand-hobbled together from scratch a number of RepRaps (3D printers) which he uses to materialize (or literally to print) his amassing cache of newfangled nanomolecular models. Hope collages together thousands of these 2D rendered and 3D printed models into painterly compositions depicting things organic, inorganic, synthesizable, theoretically feasible, nonsensical, and nonobjective.

Shane Hope, gray_gooey_graphene (detail), 2012, archival pigment print, 48″ x 72″.
The resulting artworks, in series called "Nano-Nonobjective-Oriented Ontographs", “Qubit-Built Quilts”, “Post-Scarcity Percept-Pus Portraits” and “Scriptable-Scalable Species-Tool-Beings,” offer visual art answers to technological singularity blindsightedness; that the future’s futures can’t really be foreseen. How can we hope to depict the runaway imaginings of accelerated artificial intelligences? What will it look like if and after our overclocked-offspring (quicker-thinking posthuman descendants) decide to disassemble everything we know for spare parts?

Forever
optimistic, Hope puts forth these pieces as plans for playborground
ball pits of pure operationality all about an atomic admin access-privs
picturesque. He considers them compendia serving to uncover with
repleteness the interobjectivity between nanomolecular unit operations;
to abandon anthropocentric narrative coherence; to show how the sum of
parts is always actually much greater than the whole; to inscribe
object-to-object fault lines of relata distortion on equal ontologically
flattened footing with human consciousness; and to display the density
how much rather than how little now simultaneously exists like manifold
meanwhiles all the way across.
In Hope's own word, "So run this, for here's how you in the form of pathetic-prophetic techno-poetics for reals forge future’s futures:
nano-nonobjective-oriented ontographic scribblin' on
scriptable-scalable species-tool-beings quacker-castin'
computronium-clouds of kilo-IQ'd collablobject-oriented co-op-corporeal
commons-clusters playborin' with post-scarcity percept-pus and
prescient-peek-a-boo public-panopticon-powdered plunderware-portraiture
of plans for playborground ball pits of pure operationality all about
atomic admin access-privs picturesque grey-gooplexus-thunkuppetrees
qubit-built-quiltin' algorithmicracked-out junk-DNAnarch-keys to
un-nanoblockonomic-lock fine-joules-bots that gots-lots-o-watts
spinformation-supportin' scenariopolist rapturama-root
abundance-heck-tech-wreckonomical enzymin'-rhymin' chmodder-fodder for
smartdustormin' mass-mod-mood-meds runnin' on you runnin' on
hyper-necker-deathcubes quture-sporecastin' syncthetic
smartificially-exprisoned empathologically-infacteous
connectivitis-cognitariats called upon to camouflage the
protocol-onization of everythingyness upwhen on a lifefile::path towards
a mass2sapient-ratiocracy gettin' smartfaced and uploaded addin'
add-ons off your overclocker rocker perv'd POV-vapor Xmit rights to far
edge soylent green tea party uploadside your headers of bequestorbot
blobjecthoodlumist bucky-luck-lock logicages-gates computtin' uh
handicrafted e-cap in your app-portential meat-splaced-out smartmatter
of nanofacturally date-stampeded data-debased nDiagrammatic
copylution-commodity cross sections of compound cutaway exploded view
shish ka-bombs higher-ordermensionally hackin'-hockin' chem-phlegm
loogie-loggin' one man bandwidth'd biochippin' off the
old-bad-blocks-bunchallianced punchin' the overclockin' cached-advanced
chronoughty pathetic-prophetic techno-poetic cognitive haze
phraseologies pharmosomally flocusin'
femtofactured-fluidentifried-fleshionistas fee-willin' click-fraud
false-flag-phishin' for masstaken-iPlentities so omega-pointless
slashdot-to-dot-subthreaded by buy/cellutility-swarms of
soul-splinterferin' spaculativernaculareerin' sumplace skiddie snarfin'
sporgery zombie noo-zoos transubstrationally timeshearin'-taggin'
envirornamentally-challenged infomorphiliac-biorouters backscatterin'
bloodstream-slummin'-it up hick-hackenstantial thought barrier robber
barons' sapient-sopper see-source-serum sci-fi-lustratin'
morph-feral-foglet-fabbed fertilizer for fornicode for
misalignment-matter mogul mashmobsters manipulatin' malfoamational
monay-yay markets for metacompetitive metabolisms of
things-executin'-things-executin'-things-executin'-things..."
Shane
Hope received his MFA from the University of California San Diego in
2002 and has attended the University of California Los Angeles, the San
Francisco Art Institute, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and
Sculpture. He has exhibited at Virgil de Voldere Gallery in New York;
I-20 in New York; Project Gentili, in Prato, Italy; iMAL (interactive
Media Art Laboratory) in Brussels, Belgium, Rosamund Felson Gallery in
Los Angeles and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. His work will
be featured in the Fall 2013 exhibition entitled “Dissident Futures” at
the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
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2 Comments:
Big things have small beginnings...
Those first two images look great.
I noticed Jerry Saltz wrote a piece nostalgic for gallery days of yesteryear. Are your experiences the same?
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