Postmasters Gallery
September 6 to October 11

MacClassics (the immaculate machines)

All works in a new show of digital art at Postmasters Gallery have one
common denominator: the archetypical one piece Macintosh personal
computer. The projects on display also address one of the paradoxes of
new media.

According to curator Tamas Banovich, "In the rush to try to be on top of
the minute-by-minute advances of the digital medium, there is seldom
time for reflection. With the pace of technological change, the creative
process becomes one of reacting to all the latest developments in
programming. All too often, the exhilarating sense of freedom to
communicate, coupled with the latest and showiest techniques, plug-ins
and engines, seem to determine the concept and aesthetic of content."

Each of the participants in "MacClassics" - Nam Szeto and Steven Cannon
(I/o 360), Thomas Muller, Ervin Redl, Eric Adigard, Patricia McSahne
(M.A.D.), Kevin Sawad Brooks, John F. Simon Jr., Perry Hoberman, Terbo
Ted (TerboLizard), David Karam (Post Tool design), Joan Heemskerk and
Dirk Paesmans (jodi.org), David Oppenheim, Andy Deck, Erik Rosewear -
was presented with one of the early, one-piece Macintosh computers (512K
to Macintosh Classic) and asked to create a work using this machine. The
resulting works reveal wildly different approaches. Some pieces
rigorously analyze the basic elements of the medium, its parameters, or
the graphical interface; others integrate the machine as object. Yet
another approach is to stretch the limits of the machine, subvert its
system, and "hack" it to do something unexpected.