post industrial digital dysmorphya
Joiri Minaya & Nando Alvarez-Perez
remixed by Carlos Franco
June 21 - July 31, 2022 (Extended to August 13)
Press Release / Essay / Exhibition Checklist
First they came for our language, encapsulated its code into protocols. Then they turned it into productivity with all their Words and Excels, instigating a post-industrial ergonomic industry that made our body go feeble and its mind full of hay. Then they came for our family and friends, locking them into gated communities : home pages, revenue streams, and identities as data sets; turning the synaptic network into a panoptic one.
We were then flanked by their feeds, their speed & mobility blinding us, making it impossible to keep track of our wheres and aims. And as we grew disoriented with the content stream they added a map so as to keep track of our crawl and then a camera to remember each and every step so that we would never claim “lost”. Then as we became used to the snap and its share they added a front facing lens, and through it, disoriented and fascinated by the mirror affects across all them glittering feeds, they were finally able to lure us all in.
post industrial digital dysmorphia, an exhibition on the futility in distinguishing a difference between virtually here or reality as actually there by Joiri Minaya and Nando Álvarez Pérez, mixed by Carlos Franco, produced by Lydian Stater.
Joiri Minaya (1990) is a NY-based Dominican-United Statesian multi-disciplinary artist. She studied art at the ENAV (DR), the Chavón School of Design, and Parsons. Minaya has exhibited across the Caribbean, the U.S. and internationally. She recently received a Jerome Hill Fellowship, a NY Artadia award and the BRIC’s Colene Brown Art Prize, and has participated in residencies at Skowhegan, Smack Mellon, Bronx Museum, Red Bull House of Art, LES Printshop, Socrates Sculpture Park, Art Omi, ISCP, Vermont Studio Center, New Wave and Silver Art Projects.
Nando Alvarez-Perez is an artist and educator based in Buffalo, NY. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. His practice extends into his work as a founding director of The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art–an art and education nonprofit with a mission to model the ways culture can sustain communities through focused, practical engagements with contemporary art–and as editor-in-chief of Cornelia magazine, a visual art review published three times per year for the Western New York and Southern Ontario region.
Carlos Franco is an artist currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY.
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