¡°We are now living in a super, hyper-extended information society,¡± says curator Masafumi Fukugawa, ¡°and that idea was the starting point for our new exhibition.¡±
Fukagawa is one of five curators of ¡°Being-in-the-Wired-World,¡± a group exhibition at Kawasaki City Museum that features eight emerging artists (or artist duos) commissioned to make work responding to the ¡°new world of communication, technology and media.¡±
From afar, the exhibition could be seen as a flailing grab for quick contemporary currency by showing the ¡°virtual art¡± of the ¡°post-Internet age.¡± Up close, however, ¡°Being-in-the-Wired-World¡± is a far more ambitious and articulate expression of our media-saturated lives than the kind of artworks those keywords are typically associated with. There are no 3-D renderings of roman columns here, no conceptual Facebook artworks, no #newaesthetic-styled images of machine-vision (live cams, 3-D map glitches, video games). Google and YouTube didn¡¯t make a single appearance. The work here is subtle, complicated and human.
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