strange/r/evolution
Works by Alexander Reben
Curated by Amy Kisch + Charlie James
at SPRING/BREAK Art Show
New York, NY
March 6 – 12, 2018
Conceived for the 7th edition of SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York City’s curator-driven art fair, Amy Kisch and Charlie James present strange/r/evolution—a solo exhibition of works by Alexander Reben. We live in an age where technology is learning about people at an exponential rate. The idea of a true ‘stranger’ is becoming obsolete. Everything from our credit card numbers, voices, pulses, brainwaves, and biometrics of our faces (surveilled with or without our permission), tells our stories. Bay Area-based artist and roboticist, Alexander Reben, explores these and other aspects of our humanity, through the lens of art and technology. As an actual ‘stranger’ coming to town—the towns being the context of the art world and the city of New York—Reben’s artwork deals with human-machine relationships, synthetic psychology, artificial philosophy, and robot ethics. Using ‘art as experiment,’ he allows the viewer to experience the future within metaphorical contexts.
