Real and unreal at once.
In Paris, Heterotopies opens tonight at DANAE (@Danae__io), curated by Marlène Corbun (@MarleneCorbun) after Michel Foucault's idea of spaces "absolutely real and absolutely unreal." Wen New Atelier show Miniscriber, Le Bristol Paris edition, with its outputs on paper; Benjamin Bardou (@benjaminbardou) shows L'Horloge ou la Mécanique des Seuils; Ivona Tau (@ivonatau) brings Egle Queen of Serpen†s, made with a GAN trained on imagery of water and plastics. Louis-Paul Caron (@louispaulcaron), The Time Within and Alec Waxman complete the room. Through Dec 30.
Faces, on Tezos.
FACES opened Monday at ASIA NOW in the Monnaie de Paris, curated by Gallery byGrida (@bygrida) in partnership with Art on Tezos (@artontezos_), on objkt (@objktone) and in print, through Oct 24: Niceaunties (@niceaunties) and her AI-made Auntieverse, Shavonne Wong's (@shavonnewong_) virtual humans, Reuben Wu's (@Reuben_Wu) drone-lit landscapes, Polygon1993's (@Polygon1993) test-card portraits and Alienqueen (@ALIENQUEENART).
New on http://catalogue.gallery: photographs of nothing at all.
Jan Robert Leegte (@JanRobertLeegte) closes Sightings at Upstream Gallery (@GalleryUpstream) in Amsterdam on Oct 24: images that look like telephoto shots, deep fields or satellite stills, made by a generative system whose real subject is JPEG compression. "It is the blurriness itself, given the shape of a photograph," the gallery writes. In Groningen his Wanderer walks OpenStreetMap, sending a transaction to itself at every junction and letting the hash pick its next turn, through Nov 1.
New on http://catalogue.gallery: the machines that see.
Jennifer McCoy and Kevin McCoy (@mccoyspace) closed ReLensing at bitforms gallery (@bitforms) in New York on Oct 17. In Crystal Films, 3D-printed glass sits over screens looping Orson Welles's The Lady from Shanghai; Depth Model is a plotter painting that began with a passage of Moby-Dick and Stable Diffusion prompts for whaling ships. The duo's Quantum, registered on Namecoin in May 2014, is remembered as the first NFT.
And a history: on May 17, 1969, the Howard Wise Gallery on West 57th Street opened TV as a Creative Medium, the first US exhibition devoted to video, with Nam June Paik's Participation TV and Frank Gillette and Ira Schneider's Wipe Cycle, nine monitors where visitors caught themselves a few seconds late.
In 1971 Wise founded Electronic Arts Intermix, which still preserves video art today. This week at Offscreen Paris, BERG Contemporary shows Steina Vasulka's Geomania (1986) at its largest: 21 monitors in a ziggurat.
Ahead: Oct 22–25, Art Blocks (@artblocks_io) holds its sixth Marfa Weekend in West Texas, opening with OpenSea (@opensea).
Friday, LACMA (@LACMA), NODE (@nodefnd), the Museum of Art + Light (@museumartlight) and the Centre Pompidou ask what an institution needs to last another hundred years; Saturday brings a sunrise viewing of Donald Judd's 15 untitled works in concrete at the Chinati Foundation, then Quietus Machine by NEORT++ (@neort_io).