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http://kristinhjellegjerde.com/artists/116-sverre-bjertns/works/

American, Cuban b., 1948-1985, Havana, Cuba, based in New York, New York

“DREAMS REWIRED traces the desires and anxieties of today’s hyper-connected world back more than a hundred years, when telephone, film and television were new. As revolutionary then as contemporary social media is today, early electric media sparked a fervent utopianism in the public imagination – promising total communication, the annihilation of distance, an end to war. But then, too, there were fears over the erosion of privacy, security, morality. Using rare (and often unseen) archival material from nearly 200 films to articulate the present, DREAMS REWIRED reveals a history of hopes to share, and betrayals to avoid.”

American, based in Los Angeles, California

Emilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Oasis Max Life, 2016, Steve Turner

Emilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Return of the Broken Screens (Philips Ambilight II), 2016, Steve Turner

Emilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Return of the Broken Screens (Apple iPhone 4s II), 2016, Steve Turner

Yung Jake, 1 RETWEET, 2016, Steve Turner

Thrush Holmes, Untitled, 2016, Beers London

Felix R. Cid, Untitled (New York, Monegros Desert), 2015, Garis & Hahn

700 black polyester gloves filled with polyester and dessert sands, praying rugs

Felix R. Cid, Untitled (Subtractions of Color and Flesh), 2016, Garis & Hahn

Although he trained in video, Constant Dullaart’s medium is the internet. Rather than creating works from the ground up, Dullaart instead relies on existing frameworks, websites, search engines, and the like, treating them as “found objects” on which he enacts distortions and witty reconfigurations. One of his best-known works is The Revolving Internet, a website that presented the Google homepage spinning in circles—and was shut down by Google, but not before garnering three million hits. He’s also created a work, Terms of Service, that turns the Google search bar into a mouth that reads the site’s oft-criticized terms of use, as well as several websites that poke fun more specifically at the art world—including a seizure-inducing version of a Berlin art museum’s website and an inversion of Georg Baselitz’s Wikipedia page. “The Internet has been out there for a long time; it’s already nostalgic,” Dullaart says of his medium of choice. “It just became a large corporate backyard and that’s what we’re all frolicking in.”