Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018

Sept 28, 2018–Apr 14, 2019

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These artists use programming to adopt a critical stance by underscoring or exposing social, cultural, or political codes. Keith and Mendi Obadike’s project The Interaction of Coloreds, for example, uses a statement by Josef Albers on rules and color as a starting point for exploring how longstanding systems of racial categorization might translate into the digital sphere, specifically how skin color factors into online commerce. Marc Lafia and Fang-Yu Lin’s work reflects on the rules followed by authorities and their resistance while Paul Pfeiffer’s video sculpture addresses cultural and racial identity in sports and Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki’s interactive data visualization explores how Twitter receives and shapes reality television.

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Paul Pfeiffer, Goethe's Message to the New Negroes, 2001

Blurry image of a basketball player.
Blurry image of a basketball player.

Paul Pfeiffer, Goethe's Message to the New Negroes, 2001. Video, color, silent; 0:39 min. looped; with color LCD monitor, metal armature, DVD player, and DVD, 5 1/2 × 6 1/2 × 36 in. (14 × 16.5 × 91.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee 2001.227. © Paul Pfeiffer. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

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