Please join Real Time & Space for this week’s RTS Talks with presentations by RTS resident Jay Atherton, and San Francisco based artist Aaron Finnis.
TUESDAY, September 30th, at 7 PM
Aaron Finnis uses industrially produced self-assembly furniture and minimalist painted patterns to transform the abstract materials of data recording—such as binary code and computer magnetic tape—into tangible objects. By making the computer datathat permeates our contemporary existence visible, Finnis alters our perception of the digital processes constantly at work around us.
Jay Atherton’s projects explore the perceptual edges of the ordinary–the moments unnoticed. The quotidian sequence by which one exists within the constructed environment is made observable by the passage of time, more specifically, by the presence of change. Informed by the agencies of site, i.e. sunlight, temperature, wind, darkness, etc., the durational value of any change lends itself to a range of memorable outcomes that vary from the exquisite to the banal. The spaces Atherton creates, from residences to art installations, focus on the relationship between time and site in order to shape human experience.