blue screen  

by    Addie Wagenknecht

note: click on right-center of NewHive to get to pages 2 and then 3 !!

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“Artists have a responsibility to ask questions, challenge boundaries, and burn up what culture doesn’t need in order to make space for change,” says Wagenknecht. Blue Screen, according to a New Hive press release, is a reflection on recent controversies targeting women working in the gaming and technology industries. In September, Wagenknecht chaired the Open Hardware Summit in Rome where a handful of female and transgendered speakers were subjected to online harassment. #Gamergate erupted simultaneously. The overwhelming accumulation of abuse culminated in the psychological halting state embodied by this work. Something is broken. The system has crashed and must be rebooted.

Addie Wagenknecht (b. 1981, United States) is an artist whose work contemplates power, beauty and networked consciousness. In her practice, complexity, dark sides and hacked systems without rules emerge, as sharp wit collapses the conceptual distance between yes and no, or ones and zeros. The recipient of a 2014 Andy Warhol Foundation grant, Wagenknecht is best known for her leadership in the open source hardware movement, and as a member of the collective Free Art & Technology (F.A.T.) Lab.

Blue Screen was commissioned for NewHive by Lindsay Howard and it coincides with SHELLSHOCK, Wagenknecht’s first solo exhibition in the United States, which runs from November 2-December 7, 2014 at bitforms Gallery in New York. (you full screen you can also view Blue Screen here at New Hive).

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note: every Sunday we’ll be running a New Hive selected by Melissa Broder.

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