Jeremiah Johnson: Watching The Heavens

June 7 – 21, 2012

For artists working in the networked environment, the rapid progress into the new (and the coming obsolescence of the barely old) are a fact of the medium. This makes the issue of nostalgia, and the more fundamental underlying problem of tradition, ripe for commentary and exploration. Jeremiah Johnson's new work "Watching The Heavens" alludes to antique digital imagery of a starscape, used in the Netscape Navigator web browser, one of the first of its kind, which, to many of the generation who grew up bridging the gap between the analog and digital worlds, symbolized the possibilities of the Internet which were yet to be explored, and yet to be envisioned. The carefully-crafted, slow and meditative expansion on this iconic scene affirms the value of the digital artifacts which can easily be overlooked in their rapid exchange across the network of the current social web. Johnson's piece includes an interactive element through which a user may "make a wish" on one of the comets by clicking on it and sending their message anonymously.

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