CODE and NOISE, Santa Fe | 2016

“CODE and NOISE”

curated by Christine Duval

JD Beltran & Scott Minneman, Jim Campbell, Daniel Canogar, Mel Day & Frank Ham,

Laurie Frick, James Lanahan, LigoranoReese, Clive McCarthy, Simon Pyle,

Casey Reas, Laura Splan, and Yang Yongliang.

CURRENTS, New Media Festival

Santa Fe, June 10-26, 2016

“CODE and NOISE” is a multi-media exhibition that offers a fresh look at the ways in which contemporary artists create or leverage software in the production of their work. In the exhibition, viewers encounter works in mediums that span much of art history: from woodcut, textile, photograph, and painting to super 8, video, and generative art. The exhibition addresses not simply the variety of mediums, but also highlights the varied approaches these artists take in yoking the language of computers to their art.

The advent of the computer is arguably one of the most culturally significant developments of the last century. In the early sixties, at a time when mainframe computers could only be found in large industrial or university laboratories, scientists and mathematicians like Manfred Mohr went on to adopt the role of artist and computer art was born. But computer-generated art was graphical in nature and tended to be solely structured around a techno-centric narrative. By the mid eighties, the appearance of off-the-shelf software and the widespread adoption of personal computers changed our relationship with technology forever. Today, software continues its inexorable spread into our daily lives with the “internet of things”—into our homes, appliances and cars. In the same manner, software has infiltrated many artistic practices—sometimes as a tool, but more often than not as an ever-evolving medium in itself.

Whether the artists in “Code and Noise” wrote their own code or leveraged existing ones, they all are preoccupied how the technology can mimic, transform, or alter the perception of the world we live in. The featured artists gather and study information from a wide range of sources—the TV, newspapers, photographs, Fitbit, the internet, or scientific research documentation—and then seek to actively engage the viewer in the meaning of the work.

Code-and-Noise-flyer	Invitation	Pasatiempo Cover
Preview by Paul Weideman	Installation shot CODE and NOISE	Installation shot CODE and NOISE
Installation shot CODE and NOISE	CODE and NOISE @ Currents, new media Festival, Santa Fe	Santa Fe, Installation shot Laurie Frick
Installation shot Laura Splan	Installation shot @ Currents, new media Festival, Santa Fe	Installation shot James Lanahan
James Lanahan from the Signal Noise series	Installation shot JD Beltran and Scott Minneman	installation shot Currents, new media Festival
Simon Pyle Quantified Selfie, detail	Installation shot CODE and NOISE	installation shot Ligorano Reese, Jim Campbell and Casey Reas
Casey Reas Today's Ideology, July 26	Daniel Canogar from the Small Data series	Installa Laurie Frick, Laura Splan, Laurie Frick
Laurie Frick Daily Stress Inventory 2	Laura Splan from the Manifest series	Installation shot CODE and NOISE
Laurie Frick	Ins CODE and NOISE	Installation JD Beltran and Scott Minneman
Installation shot Mel Day & Frank Ham	Installation shot Ligorano Reese, Jim Campbell and Casey Reas	Installation shot James Lanahan and Simon Pyle
James Lanahan from the Signal Noise series	Installation shot CODE and NOISE	Christine Duval & Jeff Medinas
Installation shot	Artists and staff Clive McCarthy, Mel Day, Frank Ham, C. Duval , Frank Ragano and Simon Pyle	Mariannah Amster and Simon Pyle
James Lanahan from the Signal Noise series	Daniel Canogar From the Small Data Series	Daniel Canogar From the Small Data Series
Casey Reas Today's Ideology, July 26	Laura Splan from the Manifest series	Laura Splan Squint
Mel Day & Frank Ham Cloud of Unknowing	Mel Day & Frank Ham For the Lovers of Truth Everywhere (Lectern)	Clive McCarthy Bay Bridge
Ligorano Reese \|•AM•\| (Courtesy of Catharine Clark Gallery)	\|•AM•\| detail (courtesy of Catharine Clark Gallery)	Laurie Frick Walk 51 in 16 panels (courtesy Edward Cella Art + Architecture)
James Lanahan Signal Noise 5.0	Yang Yongliang Rising Mist (courtesy of duval contemporary)	JD Beltran & Scott Minneman Moon
JD Beltran and Scott Minneman Snow Globe, Fire works	JD Beltran and Scott Minneman Untitled,( self Portrait) from the Material Language series	JD Beltran and Scott Minneman San Francisco, from the Material Language Series
JD Beltran and Scott Minneman Bridge	JD Beltran & Scott Minneman Road Trip	Simon Pyle Grandpa Back From The War (jepg Decay - prints)