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source: art-ba-ba

美国艺术家Kari Altmann个展“Xomia（Return Home, Realflow, All Terrain）”日前在都柏林Ellis King画廊举行。以下来自这场展览的新闻稿。

开始的时候，你会怀疑Kari Altmann究竟是不是一个真实存在的人。

但是在何种程度上你会断言一个词语是一个真正的词语呢？

许多年前我在网络上发现了她的作品，我变得专注于这一系列像病毒一样传播的微博客、标签、内容流、音乐短片、Soundcloud的账户、标题标签以及高度成熟的美术馆档案，它们都被一个不断更新并且精心编辑的网站收录到了一起。它体现的是一个结构，从来没有简化为一个单一的图像。

许多艺术家将他们的个人网站用作记录项目的档案馆，Kari Altmann的个人网站则是进入某种生活的一扇大门。她通过不同等级的文化材料来打造每天更新的内容，这其中许多材料也是她自己创作的。

我将这篇文章视为向一种包罗万象的艺术实践的致敬。在元级上的事物与某种在你面前打印出来的事物之间是存在联系和区别的，而这正是Kari Altmann的展览所想要捕捉的。

你的朋友Ssaleikha刚刚在Zorpia（注：一个大型社交类网站）发布了新的照片！

当你回到家时，你又在哪里呢？
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Kari Altmann can be hard to pin down. Based in New York, born in Dallas, largely shaped in Baltimore and forever on the move, the semi-itinerant artist’s physical situation is as ungraspable as her art practice. Built around an awareness of the systemics of contemporary art and branding (because they can be interchangeable) Altmann’s work takes the existing tropes, modes and formats around image-sharing and data networks and repurposes them to reveal the embedded power structures and inequalities they often represent.
A Tibetan girl and a sheep carcass flanked by an iChat bubble and a universal WiFi symbol, a man muzzled by a mask wearing a SONY-branded t-shirt flipped by Photo Booth to read ‘YNOS’ –reblogged and reframed in her R-U-In?S tumblr –a glamour selfie of a girl so magnified in the Ttoshibaa window it becomes hard to make out. These are all images that take the familiar and reveal their inherent weirdness within a singular aesthetic of freakish hues and mutant textures, appropriated and reconditioned within a nebulous landscape shifting from ‘online’ to ‘offline’ without discrimination.
“Art and information already travel as brands today,” Altmann tells me via Skype, with only text from a chat box and a thumbnail headshot to go on in forming an impression of her as a person. In refusing a spoken interview and insisting on generatively constructing a “document” rather than an interview per se, conversation with the artist becomes a fragmented and shape-shifting dialogue across media, focusing on getting her point across as accurately as possible.
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source: thewhitebuildingorguk

Kari Altmann is an American artist and cultural technologist working at the complex intersection of formats and motives that occur in the back end of production today. Memes, brands, trends, microcultures, algorithms, social media, prosumer software, and other communal imaging systems are all put to use in a restructured ecosystem of content which flows through multiple platforms, almost faster than art product or identity can keep up with. These open fields of memetic culture are continually crafted to release the survivalist and fantasy-based tactics inherent in their environment, as the artwork that results from them morphs to fit different material and social contexts over time.

Recent exhibitions include Soft Mobility Abstracts, New Museum, New York, Brands, Salts Center, Basel, and Art Post-Internet, Ullens Center, Beijing. She has done projects for and with Art Dubai, The Goethe-Institut, Rhizome, The Hirshhorn Museum, Dis Magazine, Nero Magazine, and many more.
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source: elliskingnet

Kari Altmann (B. 1983) Is A Nomadic, Swarm-Based American Artist With Current Headquarters In New York And Amsterdam. Focused On The Tropes Of Today’s Survival Fantasy Aesthetics, Identity Mutation, Mistranslation And Aggregation, Branding And Class Tactics, And “Sharing Culture”, She Works Across Disciplines To Create New Blackmarket Microgenres Of Persona And Content. These Series Primarily Connect Through Exposed Networks Of Memes, Tags, Friend Groups, Conceptual And Material Motifs, Cultural Proximity, And Social Media Accounts.

Recent Projects Include, Soft Mobility Abstracts, For The New Museum, New York; A Commissioned Video For Extinction Marathon At Serpentine Gallery, London; And A Group Exhibition Entitled Art Post Internet At Ullens Center, Beijing. She Has Also Undertaken Projects For And With Art Dubai, The Goethe Institute, Fade To Mind, Mixpak, Dis Magazine, Nero Magazine, To Name But A Few. Her Work Has Been Featured By The Fader, Dazed Magazine, And Art In America, And Receives Consistent Critical Acclaim. Upcoming Presentations In 2015 Include Her Participation In The Biennial Of The Americas, Denver, And Group Exhibitions At Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Artists Space, New York, And Ellis King, Dublin. In 2014 She Was Awarded An Inaugural Prix Net Art By Rhizome And TASML Beijing.