Conscious Tether: Art and the Internet in Los Angeles is a group exhibition of contemporary artists considering what it means to live with and through the internet.
Appearing to be both nowhere and everywhere at once, the internet’s presence is always felt, always there, always just outside the bounds of perception. Parallel to the common perception within media theory that infrastructures and apparatuses only make themselves known during instances of breakdown or failure, Conscious Tether feels out the sites at which matter, energy, and labor assert themselves amidst conditions of invisibility, control, and waste. These artists prize apart how the networked, digitized subject might respond to the state of ceaseless onlineness; at the same time, the exhibition also asks what role the real space of Los Angeles plays within these complex interactions.
The assembled artists in Conscious Tether emphasize the material and immaterial reminders of the internet’s unceasing presence, exploring its seeming peripheries. American Artist, ann haeyoung, and Romi Morrison implicate systems of quantification, control, and extraction; LA Cryptoparty, KCHUNG, Danielle Dean, Tiny Tech Zines (Rachel Simanjuntak, Jules Kris, Tyler Yin, Tristan Espinoza), and Xin Xin consider practices of labor, privacy, and consent; while works by Ahree Lee, Devin Kenny, and Alice Yuan Zhang reveal both the realities and possible futures of gendered technology, encryption, and technological ruins.
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Sunday, 12-6pm