Sep 28th 2021

Claudia Hart: The Unfolding: Performance and Discussion

@ Haynes

3050 S Haynes Ct, Chicago, IL 60608

Opening Tuesday, September 28th, at 4PM

On view through Sunday, October 10th

The Unfolding: Performance and Panel
Tuesday, September 28, 4pm-6:15pm CST

*Live Performance in-gallery

~followed by~

*Panel Discussion on Zoom
5-6:15pm (also live streamed in gallery)

[Register for Zoom portion]
https://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_1LWpn4_8Rxef-hZQZtbnUA

Haynes Court is pleased to present a combined in-person and online performance and panel discussion on the occasion of Claudia Hart’s solo exhibition The Unfolding.

1. Live Performance in person from 4-5pm:

Chicago-based artist Bun Stout will present a mixed-reality performance in the gallery featuring the works ONE FATE STUPID and Lilac Poem. Bun Stout is a mixed-reality artist based in Chicago. Their practice bridges physical and digital media, making wearables from an imaginary future, to tell stories about those futures. The resulting artworks are fashion editorials, video, and augmented reality couture that are used to catalyze transformation in wearers and viewers.

~NOTE~
Those attending the performance in-person are welcome to watch the Zoom panel in the gallery with open doors for airflow and required masks.
For those not attending the in-person performance, but wish to watch the panel on Zoom, the livestream will feature some documentation of the performance

-Panel Discussion on zoom from 5-6:15pm:

Panelists:
Claudia Hart
Charlotte Kent, Editor-at-large, Brooklyn Rail
Adelheid Mers, Chair, Department of Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Moderated by Jessica Cochran and Ye-Bhit Hong

In this discussion panelists will engage with Claudia Hart’s solo exhibition, as well as Bun Stout’s afternoon performance, touching on issues of contemporary painting and the history of copyright, painting as “digital combine”, representation and identity at the intersection of cryptoart, and the relationship between augmented reality simulation practices and the queering of the art object.
In what has been called “flirtatious simulation of forgery,” Claudia Hart uses computer modeling to render copy-right protected works by Modernist patriarchs—Picasso, Matisse, and Morandi—in a parallel symbolic space. Meticulously composed by hand using custom software, and re-interpreted with her own attention to color, light, and surface, we understand these works as dreamlike and disembodied, intermingling the physical world with an imaginary VR game space.

Each unique work is generated from a Jpeg, created with a computer-driven airbrush machine, and using archival pigments on rare hardwood panels. As appropriations themselves, the works in The Unfolding toy with the issues of copyright that date their origins to the Modernist response to photography. Hart therefore calls these pieces “combines,” following the lead of Robert Rauschenberg. But while Rauschenberg combined painting with a physical sculpture, Hart combines hers with a digital simulation, minted as an NFT with blockchain certification.
Presented with the support of Artists Need Art Historians (ANAH)

A note on format:

-The performance begins at 4pm CST in-person, and the panel begins at 5pm CST on Zoom.
–Those attending the performance in-person are welcome to watch the Zoom panel in the gallery with open doors for airflow and required masks
–For those not attending the in-person performance, but wish to watch the panel on Zoom, the livestream panel will feature some documentation of the performance

 

 

 

The Unfolding is an exhibition of new still life paintings by Claudia Hart. Widely exhibited internationally and online, this is Hart’s first solo presentation of paintings in Chicago. The artist calls these works “digital combines.” They are an assessment of our current moment, asserting a new version of authenticity: painting for the age of the computer.

In what has been called “flirtatious simulation of forgery,” Hart uses computer modeling  to render copy-right protected works by Modernist patriarchs—Picasso, Matisse, and Morandi—in a parallel symbolic space. Meticulously composed by hand using custom software, and re-interpreted with her own attention to color, light, and surface, we understand these works as dreamlike and disembodied, intermingling the physical world with an imaginary VR game space.Each unique work is generated from a Jpeg, created with a computer-driven airbrush machine, and using archival pigments on rare hardwood panels. As appropriations themselves, the works in The Unfolding toy with the issues of copyright that date their origins to the Modernist response to photography. Hart therefore calls these pieces “combines,” following the lead of Robert Rauschenberg. But while Rauschenberg combined painting with a physical sculpture, Hart combines hers with a digital simulation, minted as an NFT with blockchain certification.Moving through pleasure and recognition, our negotiations of Hart’s paintings—both in the white cube and on screen—make way for heady meditations on for the passage of time, notions of authorship and authenticity, identity, and canon.Finally, this work is presented alongside an earlier work from Hart’s practice, Medusa, 2011. This wood drawing, based on a 3D sculpture from her Mortifications series also a combine, representing the artist’s ongoing interest in identity and representation through the evolving “scrim” of technology, all through the lenses of feminism, art history, and queer theory.

Claudia HartBased in New York and professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Claudia Hart emerged as part of a generation of 90s intermedia artists examining issues of identity and representation. Since the late 90s when she began working with 3D animation, Hart embraced these same concepts, but now focusing on the impact of computing and simulations technologies. She was an early adopter of virtual imaging, using 3D animation to make media installations and projections, and later as they were invented, other forms of VR, AR and objects produced by computer-driven production machines. At the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she is a Professor, she developed a pedagogic program based on her practice – Experimental 3D  – the first dedicated solely to teaching simulations technologies in an art-school context.

Hart’s works are widely exhibited and collected by galleries and museums including the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum. Her intellectual contributions have been formative in the growing discourse of NFT-based digital art, and her work has been included in preeminent curated exhibitions at the forefront of this genre.She is represented in the US by bitforms gallery and is married to the media artist Kurt Hentschlager.

 

 

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