#goals

source: bitforms

Everything You Ever Wanted proposes the Ferrari as a material measure of happiness and success. Stacked in elevation until they crash into an opposing wall, the racing cars are imperfect and self-destructive, part of a larger flawed system.
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source: bitforms

b. 1981, United States
Lives and works in Austria

Addie Wagenknecht is an artist who investigates the cultural connection between technology and social interaction. Constructing installations, interventions, paintings and sculpture, she reverse-engineers reality into condensed bits, building a space in between sculpture and lived experience. In her work, complexity, dark sides and hacked systems without rules emerge, as sharp wit collapses the conceptual distance between yes and no, or ones and zeros. Playing with the contemporary anxieties of post-Snowden information culture, she builds objects that contemplate power, beauty and networked consciousness.

The recipient of a 2014 Andy Warhol Foundation grant, Wagenknecht is best known for leadership in the open source hardware movement, and as a member of the collective Free Art & Technology (F.A.T.) Lab. In 2007, she cofounded NORTD Labs, an international research and development collaborative with Stefan Hechenberger, which produces open source projects that have been used and built by millions worldwide.

An emerging visual artist and member of F.A.T. Lab, her work has been exhibited internationally, including groups shows at the Museum of Modern Art and Phillips auction house in New York; LEAP, Berlin; Haus für electroniches Künste, Basel, Switzerland; MU Eindoven, The Netherlands; Istanbul biennial, Turkey; Museumsquartier and MAK in Vienna; Grey Area Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco; Gaîté Lyrique, Paris; Beit Ha’ir Museum, Tel Aviv, and many festivals such a Glitch 2014 at Rua Red gallery in Dublin.

Her projects have been featured in a numerous papers, books, and magazines, including TIME, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Art, Vanity Fair, BUST, Vice and The Economist. Past residencies have included Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York; Culture Lab at Newcastle University, UK; Hyperwerk Institute for PostIndustrial Design in Switzerland, and the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. Presently chair of the MIT Open Hardware Summit, she holds a Masters from the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program and a BS in computer science from the University of Oregon.

Wagenknecht’s first solo exhibition in the US will open November 2014 at bitforms gallery in New York.