PREDRIVE: After Technology

"PREDRIVE: After Technology is an exhibition that revels in the contradictions posed by digital art. Suspicious of any kind of technological sublime, PREDRIVE aims to expose contemporary art’s fetishization of new technologies – an impulse to give digital art a mystical authority. Under the conditions of technology—ideas of attention, memory, and consciousness have been thought to transform or extend themselves through mechanical, electronic or digital portals. In attempting to map out an aesthetic of the technological sublime, contemporary artists and critics alike, have been seduced by the economy of information that computer-generated art has produced. However, what this produces—at the level of the interface— is an underwhelming, less interesting version of modernist abstraction (from Mondrian to Diebenkorn)."

The Mattress Factory Art Museum