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Participants:
• Perry Hoberman
Hoberman will be discussing his current exhibition at Postmasters Gallery. In this exhibition, Hoberman tackles one of our current dilemmas: in a world of ever-increasingly "powerful" media technologies, our own power to creatively make use these technologies is under constant threat on a variety of fronts. Restrictions and surveillance are being hard-coded into the hardware, software and networks we use daily in a process that seems determined to make us little more than fodder for an ever-more-profitable army of passive and fearful consumers. Several works satirize the endless attempts to price and profit from what has become known as "intellectual property" - a term that emphasizes ownership above all. A series of prints is based on the ubiquitous dialog boxes that appear whenever we open, save, close, delete, or do anything at all with the files on our computers. Another series of prints consist of superimposed images of every spam email message that Hoberman received over a given period of time, in an attempt to visualize the increasing onslaught of unsolicited advertising and to transform an utterly debased form of communication into something beautiful. Several works deal with iconography of the All-Seeing Eye, recently repurposed as the symbol of John Poindexter's "Total Information Awareness System," thus shifting its meaning from a suggestion of divine omniscience to a more earthbound ideal of total surveillance.
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