The Traveling exhibition called 'Present Tense'
An imagined grammar of portraiture in the digital age.
Rineke Dijkstra The Netherlands, born 1959
The Buzzclub, Liverpool, UK/Mysteryworld, Zaandam, NL1996-1997 two channel video projection Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
This moving portrait was extremely different but was very intriguing. We sat there for a good 20 minutes and watched the whole thing. The whole movie was just random young teenagers dancing around to hardstyle chewing on gum like they were on some hard drugs, smoking cigarettes and drinking.
I believe she was tring to say that the youth are destroying themselves using drugs. It was very weird and sometimes a bit funny what they are wearing and how hey dance.
Ethan Ham & Benjamin Rosenbaum United States, born 1969 Switzerland, born 1969
Anthroptic 2008 artist's book On loan from a private collection, Canberra
Ethan Ham used facial recognition software to find his own face on the internet with this result. The image in turn inspired the text by Benjamin Rosenbaum.
I found this one very interesting as it was an artist book as we are about to create and it was a very good one. I would love to do something like this with mine. Id like to do a book with a story that is very conceptual, that still says a story that makes you think but says it very in a very subtle way.
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