Curated by Steve Dietz Cutting edge. Bleeding edge. Leading edge. These are all familiar catch-phrases which suggest we are glimpsing the future of contemporary art, today. Edge Conditions, however, is most emphatically not about the “next new thing.” It presents works of art in a different context, at the intersection of creativity, choice, and what might be called “technology” but what is arguably the world we live in. Whether it is devices such as pencils and chisels, or ubiquitous aspects of modern life such as electricity, phones, or computers and the Internet, technology is simply a set of tools that are more or less familiar at any given time. An edge is a boundary—a divide between this or that—but an “edge condition” is an intersection, not only of art and technology, but of physical and virtual, conceptual and actual, the future and the present, the familiar and the experimental, the real and imagined. It can be discomfiting and disorienting. “Are you human or are you machine?” “Is this place real?” An edge condition is like an estuary where the river meets the ocean—not quite either but teaming with evolved adaptations. This emergent reality is in some sense the transformative condition we currently live in. The artworks in Edge Conditions explore and exploit this intersectional territory. Edge Conditions is on view at the San Jose Museum of Art through November 26, 2006. Checklist Peter Cook, Archigram, Instant City, Airship Visits a Sleeping Town, 1968
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