Deborah Aschheim

Elena Bajo

David Bowie

Monika Goetz

Elin Hansdottir

Marla Hlady

Emily Jacir

John Noestheden

Fahamu Pecou

Tomo Savic-Gecan

Katerina Seda

Emna Zghal

INSTALLATION

Deborah Aschheim (selected by Sandhini Poddar), Greenpoint for Short...
at New General Catalog 224, Brooklyn, NY
2005, Mixed-media installation (plastic, security electronics, light), lcd televisions, closed circuit spy cameras, rca cable, lamp cord, plastic and incandescent light
Dimensions variable

STATEMENT
“Neural Architecture” is a series of site-specific installations that considers the blurring of biology and buildings. The “Neural Architecture” installations conjure up a fragile, new organism, a hybrid of surveillance electronics, neural sensing and architecture that emerges out of our post-September 11 ambivalent embrace of surveillance technology. Imagine the subtle mutation of the building’s DNA, so that the space begins to grow its own sensing capacity out of equipment that was installed to protect the building’s occupants. This new nervous system, an immersive, transparent network of tubes, wiring, electronics and light, sprawls through rooms and hallways, enveloping viewers in its relentless, glowing proliferation.

BIO
Deborah Aschheim has explored the theme of Neural Architecture in exhibitions at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville; the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena; Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles; Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, CA; Consolidated Works Art Space in Seattle; and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Since 1997, she has exhibited immersive sculptural environments that make connections between architecture, biology and public space throughout the United States and in Europe. She is the recipient of fellowships from City of Los Angeles, the New Jersey State Council for the Arts and the Pasadena Arts Commission. In addition to completing a Masters in Fine Arts, Aschheim completed undergraduate studies in Anthropology that inform her investigation of technology, culture and symbolic space. Her long-standing interest has been to create installations that reconcile the human body with the invisible worlds of microscopic biology and information networks, within the physical and social space of architecture.