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DVD-Rom/Novel: The Imaginary 20th Century
by Margo Bistis, Norman Klein, Andreas Kratky
The Imaginary 20th Century is a journey into comic and perverse phantoms – factual, and at the same time, very fictional. It contains a double story: the story of the century that opened at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, and the story of a woman (Carrie), who in 1901, selects four men to seduce her, each with his own version of the new century.
In Europe and America, between 1895 and 1926, there was not simply one ‘imaginary 20th century.’ Dazzling visions repeated and overlapped in seemingly endless nuances, like traveling through phantoms of an imaginary future fed by a single engine. In this project, that engine is a historical science-fiction novel that operates as a gigantic interactive database of 2,200 images with an original sound composition. The images are harvested from period illustration, cartoons, photographs, film, ephemera, industrial design, architectural drawing, urban planning schemes, science fiction, fantasy and utopian novels, and more. This collaborative venture follows up on Klein’s award-winning interactive novel Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-1986 (2003). Like Bleeding Through, The Imaginary 20th Century is a new narrative form appropriate to the digital age at the end of a consumer-driven century. It is being released as a DVD-Rom with an accompanying book by Verso in Spring 2009.
Event Schedule:
• The Future Imaginary is on view: January 24 – March 28, 2009
• Opening Reception for the artists: Saturday, January 24, 4-6pm
• Conversation with Tom Leeser, Norman Klein and Margo Bistis: Sunday, February 8, 4pm
• Exhibition tour with curators: Saturday, March 28, 11am
L-R: Deborah Asccheim, Earworm (node), 2008; Tom Jennings, Model 17 Audible Detector, 1997;
Jon Kessler, Noriko, 1994; Phil Ross, Junior Return, 2005
Location: Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Parking & Admission: Free.Visitor parking in structure on La Tijera.
Hours: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm / Thu 10am-7pm. Closed major holidays
Gallery Tours: 310.665.6909 to schedule tours for school, museum or other groups
Gallery Info: 310.665.6905, galleryinfo@otis.edu, www.otis.edu/benmaltzgallery
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Object Description
| Exhibition | Future Imaginary |
| Artist(s) |
Aschheim, Deborah Cain, Jeff Drake, Aaron Jennings, Tom Kessler, Jon Osborn, Ed Rekow, Lea Repetto, Douglas Ross, Phil Seekins, Kari Rae Simpson, Susan |
| Title | Press release for "Future Imaginary" |
| Year | 2009 |
| Decade(s) | 2000s |
| Curator(s) |
Leeser, Tom Linton, Meg Klein, Norman Bistis, Margo |
| Description | For immediate release: November 2008. |
| Gallery | Ben Maltz Gallery |
| ImageID | FIpr |
| Collection | Ben Maltz Gallery Exhibition Archive |
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| Full Text of PDF | (page 1 of 2) DVD-Rom/Novel: The Imaginary 20th Century by Margo Bistis, Norman Klein, Andreas Kratky The Imaginary 20th Century is a journey into comic and perverse phantoms – factual, and at the same time, very fictional. It contains a double story: the story of the century that opened at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, and the story of a woman (Carrie), who in 1901, selects four men to seduce her, each with his own version of the new century. In Europe and America, between 1895 and 1926, there was not simply one ‘imaginary 20th century.’ Dazzling visions repeated and overlapped in seemingly endless nuances, like traveling through phantoms of an imaginary future fed by a single engine. In this project, that engine is a historical science-fiction novel that operates as a gigantic interactive database of 2,200 images with an original sound composition. The images are harvested from period illustration, cartoons, photographs, film, ephemera, industrial design, architectural drawing, urban planning schemes, science fiction, fantasy and utopian novels, and more. This collaborative venture follows up on Klein’s award-winning interactive novel Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-1986 (2003). Like Bleeding Through, The Imaginary 20th Century is a new narrative form appropriate to the digital age at the end of a consumer-driven century. It is being released as a DVD-Rom with an accompanying book by Verso in Spring 2009. Event Schedule: • The Future Imaginary is on view: January 24 – March 28, 2009 • Opening Reception for the artists: Saturday, January 24, 4-6pm • Conversation with Tom Leeser, Norman Klein and Margo Bistis: Sunday, February 8, 4pm • Exhibition tour with curators: Saturday, March 28, 11am L-R: Deborah Asccheim, Earworm (node), 2008; Tom Jennings, Model 17 Audible Detector, 1997; Jon Kessler, Noriko, 1994; Phil Ross, Junior Return, 2005 Location: Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045 Parking & Admission: Free.Visitor parking in structure on La Tijera. Hours: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm / Thu 10am-7pm. Closed major holidays Gallery Tours: 310.665.6909 to schedule tours for school, museum or other groups Gallery Info: 310.665.6905, galleryinfo@otis.edu, www.otis.edu/benmaltzgallery ##End## (page 2 of 2) |
