Feral File x Vellum LA present:
Simulation Sketchbook: Works in Process
A group exhibition curated by Jesse Damiani exploring the various forms “sketches” can take for artists working in new media and digital art.
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Artwork by Behnaz Farahi
Opening Reception:
Thursday, October 20, 7-9 PM
On View at Vellum LA:
October 21 - October 23, 2022
Vellum LA
7673 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles CA 90046
Feral File and Vellum LA are pleased to announce Simulation Sketchbook: Works in Process, a group show and physical pop-up exhibition at Vellum LA, curated by Jesse Damiani, which explores the various forms “sketches” can take for artists working in new media and digital art. The exhibition is powered by Tezos and will also include an LED billboard campaign in Downtown Los Angeles.
Simulation Sketchbook features 11 new artworks from:
Alida Sun - Anne Spalter - Behnaz Farahi - Botto - David OReilly - IX Shells (Itzel Yard) - John Gerrard - Mimi Onuoha - Monica Rizzolli - Qianqian Ye - Reeps One (Harry Yeff)
Artwork by Qianqian Ye (Left) and Reeps One (Right)
Curator Jesse Damiani on the exhibition:
“An artist’s sketchbook is one of the most precious spaces for research and experimentation. In its ideal, the sketchbook is an intimate domain where artists capture ideas, test compositions, wrestle with subjects, and scribble marginalia, engaging in an ongoing inner dialogue that audiences don’t witness.
In analog forms, sketches are highly correlated with drawing on paper. Simulation Sketchbook: Works in Process poses a simple question: what does a sketch look like for an artist working in more experimental modes like digital art and time-based media? What is a sketch when it’s not a conventional drawing?
Whether they take the form of code, video, 3D models, immersive spaces, or multimodal explorations that don’t fit a neat categorization, these “sketches” are no less integral to the development of the respective artist’s body of work. Because of the relative novelty among audiences, the technical and conceptual merits of these process-oriented arts can be difficult to grasp, leaving underlying poetics invisible or misinterpreted. Worse still is the assumption that this work is tantamount to button-pushing, that machines are the true authors—trivializing the years spent developing a unique relationship with these materials…In this way, their sketches create a cascade of insight: regarding the art, the artist, and the new ways we might understand the relationship among ourselves and the tools of our daily lives.”
About Feral File
Feral File commissions curated exhibitions of digital artwork and we partner with artists and institutions to explore new ways of exhibiting and collecting. Evolving from the art gallery and digital publishing models, we are borrowing the best traits of each to inform a new kind of art space. Feral File works in tandem with a community of technologists, new media artists, collectors, and curators to redefine and frame a sustainable model for the future of digital experimentation.
