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Real Cool Time: Andrew Leo Baron
Curated by Evonne M. Davis

with fully illustrated color catalog with accompanying essay by Kara L. Rooney
catalog design by Rebecca Jampol

June 27 - July 25, 2009
Opening Reception June 27, 7 - 10 PM

"...Like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, the paintings undermine the long sanctified notion of art as therapeutic, offering in their wake a realization of institutional deception and mal-intent.

Such declarations can be read on multiple levels, not simply pertaining to the art world but to the media, government and innumerable cultural institutions at large. As we as a society grow more and more compliant, content to be force fed with content and intent, we are in danger of entering an ideological vortex, one which once entered is difficult if not impossible to claw our way out of. In this sense, Landscape Narcotic, as well as many other of Baron’s pieces, act as visual equivalents of a call-to-arms."

-from the essay


Deceptive Landscapes
Hector Canonge
New Media Room
in collaboration with City Without Walls for the 2009 Newark New Media Residency

June 27 - July 25, 2009
Opening Reception June 27, 7 - 10 PM

Deceptive Landscapes relates to the genetic manipulation of seeds, the politics of food production, and the effects of GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) on the natural landscape of farming.  Inspired by recent trends in eco-friendly products, organic produce, and green marketing campaigns, Deceptive Landscapes, mediates an immersive visual discourse through a site-specific installation that integrates the use of text, video, and sonic technologies.

Hector Canonge is a New Media artist who lives and works in New York City where he studied literature, film and Integrated Media Arts. His work incorporates the use of various media and commercial technologies, physical environments, and cinematic narratives. His exhibition, “18 BEATS,” funded in part by NYSCA’s regrant program, is a sonic exploration of the various communities along the #7 Train in Queens, NY.  He recently finished the project “Intersections,” funded by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s MCAF program, about food vending trucks in Washington Heights and Inwood.

Canonge’s works have been exhibited at the Jersey City Museum, The Bronx Museum of The Arts, Queens Museum of Art, and in various galleries in NYC and NJ. He was selected for the AIM27 program at BXMA, received Public Art commissions, participated as an associate artist in the Digital Media Residency Program at Atlantic Center for The Arts, obtained a fellowship at Harvestworks, and has worked with organizations such as Queens Council on the Arts, Association of Hispanic Arts, and NOMAA. His work has been reviewed by the New York Times, ART FORUM, NYRemezcla, and New York Daily News. Canonge has taught multimedia at New York City College of Technology, CUNY; Web technologies in the Film & Communications Program at the New School University; media production at Brooklyn Community Access Television, BCAT; and Stop Motion Animation at Bronx River Arts Center. As part of his community initiatives, he started the monthly Queens’ LGBT film program CINEMAROSA. He is also the co-founder of QMAD, Queens Media Arts Development, a non-for profit arts organization that serves various communities of Queens with media programs in the arts and technology.


New Video Works:
Michael Amter
Project Room

Michael Amter will be showing new video works informed by his long-term international travels, most recently with residency in Japan.

His artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally in a variety of venues including in Coney Island as part of Creative Time’s Dreamland Social Club in 2005. Michael has worked in a variety of media, including experimental video with LCD projections. His work is drawn from personal experiences that are expressed through the code of graphic symbolism, and contain thematic properties from scientific theory. He has experience in film production and has worked with Propaganda Films and NBC Television.

Previous residencies include Paris, France, at the Cite Internationale, in 1994. In 1995 he traveled to the former Soviet Union, by invitation of professor Dimitri Ktatch.

Also on the 27th: Aferro Residency Open Studios