Perry Hoberman

AmautaLab
3820 Willat Avenue, Culver City, CA 90232
January 25, 2008 7:00pm on

Artist and author Mark Stephen Meadows presents a one-night event in Los Angeles that unveils "avatars" - the online representation of a person. The exhibit features one dozen portraits - both photographic and interactive - of avatars in Second Life, the online virtual world where people are building an alternative city that, like Los Angeles itself, is based on media and a life of leisure, automation, and wealth.

These photographs and installations each portray avatars as the inner hero of their real-life user. Psychological mirrors and self-portraits in their own right, the avatar is fast becoming as important to popular culture as mainstream celebrities. As of 2008 there are almost one billion registerd avatars, and over 30 million in virtual worlds. This exhibit explores why avatars are becoming so popular, and pokes at the reasons why they can be so dangerous.

In addition to the portraits, Meadows will also be releasing his new book, "I, Avatar; The Culture and Consequences of Having A Second Life" from which some of these portraits were taken.

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Announcing a series of lectures by Barbara Maria Stafford, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.

The first lecture will take place on January 28, 2008 at 5:30 p.m. at Hedco Neuroscience Building (HNB) Auditorium.

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Mon 1/28 5:30pm Skeletal Figures: The Emotional Intuition of Form
Tues 1/29 5:30pm Cold Intimacy/Hot Entanglement: Meaning in Combinations
Thur 1/31 5:30pm Motor Mirroring: Recognition as the Performance of Other Minds
Mon 2/4 5:30pm Inner Sky: Cave Vision and the Landscape of Sensory Deprivation
Tues 2/5 5:30pm The Miscellaneous Subject: Episodic Personhood from Mosaic to Bar Code
Thurs 2/7 5:30pm The Long Conscious Look: Towards a Pedagogy of Attentiveness

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Discover 3D the world of fine art stereography

19 January – 16 February 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday 19th January, 7:00 – 10:30pm

Black Maria Gallery
3137 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90039
Tuesday – Saturday, 12pm until 6pm (or by appointment)

Curated by Ray Zone.
with Heather Lowe, Abe Fagenson, Perry Hoberman, Claudia Kunin, Franklin Londin, Larry Ferguson, Boris Starosta, Terry Wilson, Levon Parian and Ray Zone.

Curated by 3D artist and writer Ray Zone, the Discover 3D exhibition features a wide-ranging array of stereoscopic images viewed with many different techniques. Among the unique 3D formats presented are View-Master, large-scale wall mounted stereographs and anaglyphs as well as classic formats from visual history that use the conventional stereoscope. Several of the artists create work so that the stereo viewing device becomes an art object in itself, a wall-mounted or freestanding sculpture through which the 3D image is perceived. Other works make a “site-specific” use of the Black Maria Gallery environment to create a stereographic viewing zone.

Black Maria Gallery | 3137 Glendale Blvd | Los Angeles CA 90039 | 323.660.9393 | blackmariagallery.com | info@blackmariagallery.com

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