isgisgisgisgisgisgisgisgisg.com at TRYST
Alternative Art Fair for Artist-Run-Spaces and Collectives
August 23-25, 2024
Del Amo Crossing, Torrance, Los Angeles, USA
On Shading and Rendering
At TRYST 2024, isgisgisgisgisgisgisgisgisg.com will present an exhibition featuring works by Ronny Faber Dahl, Simona Barbera, and Serena Porrati alongside the isgisgisgisgisgisgisgisgisg.com browser archive and a new series of bandana editions.
The exhibition showcases cross-disciplinary practices that embody liminal spaces within networks, focusing on the circulation and dissemination of digital archives at the intersection of screen and physical space. The exhibition features encoded images and algorithm-based paintings exploring digitization, 3D renderings, and digital erasure, spanning screens, fabrics, and open interfaces, shifting between patterns transferred onto textiles and paper and sculptural pieces embodying optical interference and synthetic materials.
From obsolete digital archives uploaded to Tumblr to low-definition images, luminous shaders, and altered pixel flows, the exhibition reflects on the rendering process, shifting between online and offline tactile connections. In one series of sculptural works, iridescent bands of colour span the entire length of metal bars. The sculptures explore the process of oxidation, revealing how minimal forces of action can trigger unpredictable and ongoing interactions at an atomic level between the metal, photons, and photoreceptor cells of the eyes. While files endlessly circulate as binary data storage, migrating across new drives or clouds, their physical renderings endure the entropy of light and time as canvas and pigments. The mechanical and technological background of the images merges with their materiality, forming a symbiotic relationship. Hexadecimal color codes evoke pigments—bismuth, pyrrole, titanium, carbon, phthalo blue, and quinacridone—hinting at the mineral geology shared with camera component sand OLED and E-Ink pixel light colors.