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Providence, RI – Interactive gallery installations, surround-sound
electronic media concerts, experimental nightclub jams, and video art will
animate downtown Providence for Pixilerations [v.5]: fragments & (w)holes,
part of the 2008 FirstWorks Festival. Pixilerations expands in its fifth
year to host two special guest artists: Heidi Kumao, a video and machine
artist, and Gail Wight, a conceptual artist who tests the limits of science.
They will give a public talk on opening night, Thursday, October 2nd.

Pixilerations [v.5] is a new media exhibition and festival in Providence,
Rhode Island. With over sixty artists exhibiting and performing, it offers a
rare opportunity to view work that incorporates non-traditional materials
such as sound, biotechnology, interactive games, holography, robotics, and
virtual environments. Pixilerations is curated by leading experts in the
field, and co-sponsored by RISD and Brown University.

Fragments & (W)holes:

Consciously and unconsciously our world view has been altered by the quantum mechanical view of the world; a world composed of discrete waves and particles. This minute level of physical investigation, developed first by Werner Heisenberg and Max Planck, is one of the means by which we have broken the world down in order to make sense of the whole from its parts. This dissection has been explored through the tools of psychoanalysis pioneered by Freud, Pavlov’s behavioral studies and the recent efforts of cognitive science to understand human psychology and the latest conjuring of artificial intelligence. Artists have reflected this fragmented world with its mind/body split since the 1900’s with the early collages of Picasso and the psychological works of the Surrealists. The digital realm is developing its own paradigm for separating and putting the world together. How has the fragmentary view created deeper holes, how has it allowed us to see the whole with sharper eyes and minds? How do artists shape their world, with fragments of life or with (w)holistic views?

Questions? Email programs@FirstWorksProv.org