Quasi-Objects/Cinematic Environment #8 and #2 on view at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, through February 17, 2018

Quasi-Objects/Cinematic Environment #8 (HDV, 4:32 mins, Color, Stereo, Ed. of 5+2 AP, 2012) + Quasi-Objects/Cinematic Environment #2 (HDV, 3:41 mins, Color, Stereo, Ed. of 5+2 AP, 2013) are on show at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, “See Yourself E(x)ist”, curated by Madeline Schwartzman (through February 17, 2018 - closed Christmas week).

"See Yourself E(x)ist" looks at how artists envision our human future in nature—our poetic attempts at agency, our technological advances, and our futile role in the intricate and complex web of all living things. We are, after all, always plummeting toward our own end. Control is just a filter. Nature does not speak human. Turbulence, decay, entropy and gravity do not recognize human attempts at adaptation, or human existence at all. See Yourself E(x)ist focuses on human ingenuity in the midst of such disturbing awareness. The art acknowledges the elegance of futility, the strangeness of attempts at permanence, and the absurdity of technological advances.

The featured artists, working in installation, robotics, electronics, sculpture, video and painting, include: Nobumichi Asai, Alan Berliner, Michael Candy, Fantich & Young, Kathryn Fleming, Gijs Gieskes, Lee Griggs, Ann Hamilton, Dorry Hsu, John Jerard, Lanzavecchia+Wai, Lorenzo Oggiano, Jaime Pitarch, Andrew Quitmeyer, Madeline Schwartzman, and Allan Wexler.

See Yourself E(x)ist was curated by Madeline Schwartzman, author of See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception (Black Dog Publishing, London, 2011), and the forthcoming See Yourself X: Human Futures Expanded.