Photos courtesy of Tim Amundson

Are You Sure
July 1st, 2016 / 9:00PM - 12:00AM

Featuring two new works by Ryan Kuo examining contemporary displacement.

Nouns is an installation aimed at the Front/Space storefront window and inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper and Giorgio de Chirico, in which bodies are petrified in self-examination by virtual light. The screen projects a videogame space that cycles between night and day in accelerated real-time, while multiple cameras work indefinitely to piece together a cheap 3D illusion, like a MakerBot or a wedding cake.

File is a process work that speculates on the place of the artist (and everybody else) in the era of mobile studios and virtual workspaces. At its center is a hypertext essay multitasking as technical documentation for the File, a collaborative wiki for the team building the File, and a todo app that builds and releases anticipation for the always-imminent deployment of the File. The File asks the user to file the file in the file, and wonders, "How does one file oneself?"



About Ryan Kuo:
Ryan Kuo (rkuo.net) is an artist and writer drawn to reflexive systems and acts of non-knowledge. Based in Cambridge, MA, he received a Master of Science in Art, Culture and Technology from MIT in 2014. Many of his works occur in video, hypertext and game environments, and invoke a person or people arguing. His works have been shown most recently in London, Berlin, Boston, and Stockholm. Ryan has also been a medical student and a video game critic.