
EDGE CLOUD
February 5 - March 1, 2020
Organized by Alexandra Lerman
Artists: Maria Antelman, Alexandra Lerman, Molly Lowe, Mikhail Maksimov, Blake Rayne, Miriam Simun, Philip Vanderhyden
February 5 - March 1, 2020
Organized by Alexandra Lerman
Artists: Maria Antelman, Alexandra Lerman, Molly Lowe, Mikhail Maksimov, Blake Rayne, Miriam Simun, Philip Vanderhyden
GROUND Solyanka
½ Solyanka Str., bld 2 (entrance from Zabelina Str.) Moscow, Russia
Curator of GROUND Project: Katya Bochavar
½ Solyanka Str., bld 2 (entrance from Zabelina Str.) Moscow, Russia
Curator of GROUND Project: Katya Bochavar
GROUND Solyanka is pleased to present an exhibition of video art entitled Cloud Edge. The show presents works by seven artists from New York and Moscow who consider time as a medium through which they navigate issues surrounding technology, ecology, and the body.
When the meteorological term “граница облака” (“cloud edge”) is entered into Google Translate, the platform enacts an intriguing, horizontal flip of the two words – emerging as “edge cloud” in English - a programming term denoting the system by which people and devices connect to a network. “Cloud computing” enables the user to generate and consume an uninterrupted flow of data through social networks and streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon, Google, and Facebook. The American media theorist Douglas Rushkoff has named our contemporary moment as one in which narrative time has collapsed, and there is simply no opportunity for temporal reflection, leaving us in a precarious state he refers to as "present shock."
Ecologists and meteorologists alike have offered ample proof that human behavior has resulted in a steady rise in the Earth’s temperature over the past several decades. The copious energy needs of server farms powering internet infrastructure and hosting “the cloud” are further igniting this climatic inferno on the horizon. Is there still time to reverse course? How long before we arrive at the vanishing point on this contingent plane in the distance? Artists working with digital technologies, such as game engines, drones, 3D animation software, and neural networks, are immersed in and flourish through the relentless environmental media stream that bombards them each day, whereby they dissect and problematize its elusive essence… and in so doing, perhaps, just for a moment, fix and focus our perception of time.
Cloud Edge abstracts the viewer from this incessant stream of digital information barraging humanity (and burning the world) and stages a liminal installation of current video and multi-media work that proffers a variety of approaches to thinking about, and engaging with time.














