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Social Media & David Byrne’s Tight Spot exhibit at The Pace Gallery Unfortunately it’s about to end, but I hope all of you have heard about (or visited!) David Byrne’s installation under the Highline, titled Tight Spot.  Talking Heads co-founder David Byrne is a legend, not only for influential music, but also for his lifestyle and conceptual art.  Byrne’s latest installation is an enormous inflated globe crammed into a small space under the grand industrial High Line.  The work emanates Byrne’s own distorted voice- a low, cavernous drone as if you’re hearing the groanings of the architectureal space itself (similar to Byrne’s earlier piece Playing the Building).  You can visit Tight Spot at 508 W 25th St., up through October 1.    On that note, I REALLY want to highlight the complimentary exhibition that The Pace Gallery has up right now, titled Social Media.  This exhibit, jointly curated by the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department at the School of Visual Arts, is on view at 510 W 25th St. from September 16 through October 15, 2011.  Social Media also features a work by David Byrne, along with Miranda July & Harrell Fletcher, Christopher Baker, Aram Bartholl, Jonathan Harris, Robert Heinecken, Sep Kamvar, and Penelope Umbrico.   This show is one of the first collections of work I’ve seen capturing this point of history concerning social media. I think it’s really relevant to start looking for this type of emerging art.  Andy Warhol & Ed Ruscha’s work represent the effect that advertising and mass production had on the world, and in a similar way artists who examine these new(ish) forms of communication and technology will continue to show up and potentially serve as a commentary for the point in time in which we’re living.  

Social Media & David Byrne’s Tight Spot exhibit at The Pace Gallery

Unfortunately it’s about to end, but I hope all of you have heard about (or visited!) David Byrne’s installation under the Highline, titled Tight Spot.  Talking Heads co-founder David Byrne is a legend, not only for influential music, but also for his lifestyle and conceptual art.  Byrne’s latest installation is an enormous inflated globe crammed into a small space under the grand industrial High Line.  The work emanates Byrne’s own distorted voice- a low, cavernous drone as if you’re hearing the groanings of the architectureal space itself (similar to Byrne’s earlier piece Playing the Building).  You can visit Tight Spot at 508 W 25th St., up through October 1.  

 On that note, I REALLY want to highlight the complimentary exhibition that The Pace Gallery has up right now, titled Social Media.  This exhibit, jointly curated by the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department at the School of Visual Arts, is on view at 510 W 25th St. from September 16 through October 15, 2011.  Social Media also features a work by David Byrne, along with Miranda July & Harrell Fletcher, Christopher Baker, Aram Bartholl, Jonathan Harris, Robert Heinecken, Sep Kamvar, and Penelope Umbrico.  

This show is one of the first collections of work I’ve seen capturing this point of history concerning social media. I think it’s really relevant to start looking for this type of emerging art.  Andy Warhol & Ed Ruscha’s work represent the effect that advertising and mass production had on the world, and in a similar way artists who examine these new(ish) forms of communication and technology will continue to show up and potentially serve as a commentary for the point in time in which we’re living.  

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