[This announcement was originally posted to Rhizome at the end of
August. It appears here unedited. Wolfgang Staehle's show opened at
Postmasters Gallery on September 6, and in grim coincidence captured on
webcam the tragic events of September 11 in Lower Manhattan. Staehle's
show is not viewable via the Web, however New Yorkers may visit the
gallery exhibition, which closes on October 6. -Ed]

Postmasters Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of "2001," an
exhibition of new works by Wolfgang Staehle. The show will open on
September 6 and will be on view until October 6, 2001.

For Wolfgang Staehle, widely recognized as a pioneer of the internet art
scene,this will be the first solo exhibition in New York in ten years.
Staehle was born in Stuttgart in 1950, grew up in Schwaebisch Hall and
has been living in New York since 1976, where he worked as a video
artist. In 1991 he founded THE THING, an independent media project which
began as a bulletin board system (BBS) and became one of the seminal
online-and offline- forums for net.art.

Staehle most recent work explores the dynamics, sensations and
implications of connectivity. The exhibition at Postmasters will focus
on large-scale, real time video projections from locations around the
world. Effectively transcending technology into a somewhat Warholian
update of the landscape genre, the first of these pieces presented a
live image of the Empire State Building in New York. "Empire 24/7" was
included in the "net_condition" show at ZKM Center in Karlsruhe in 2000
and in "loans from the invisible museum" at Yerba Buena Arts Center in
San Francisco.

Staehle's exhibition at Postmasters will consist of three new web-
transmissions:the instantly recognizable television tower in Berlin, the
picturesque Comburg monastery, and a spectacular panoramic view of lower
Manhattan. The projections - a visceral experience in synchronicity -
where the net is utilized as data pipeline, offer an instantaneous
compression of time and space. Non-relative terms like "here" and "now"
attain a new meaning where the literal and the metaphorical converge. In
today's ever-present, frenetic networking of the the globe as a way of
experiencing anything anywhere anytime, Staehle offers the antidote of
a reflective slowdown of beautiful images, close and far away, static
and changing at the same time.

Postmasters Gallery
is located at 459 West 19th Street
(corner of 10th Avenue, NYC 10011)
tel 212-727-3323
fax 212-229-2829,
edmagda@thing.net
postmasters@thing.net