Lust Severs explores functional and experiential aspects of technology. Guest curated by pioneering film artist Jennifer West, this exhibition interrogates how the digital tools and physical materiality of technology mediate both bodily sensations and mental conceptions of the world around us. Playing to the often-discomfiting collision of the human body, culture, and technology, the title of the exhibition is taken from an auto-correct mistake that changed “list servers” to “lust severs” in an email chain. Spanning from the 1960s to the present, artworks displayed in the exhibition employ digital and analog video, LED sculpture, flatscreens, sculpture, computer-generated imagery, projection, and mixed media.
FEATURED ARTISTS
LaTurbo Avedon, Dara Birnbaum, Jim Campbell, Sarah Frost, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Desmond Paul Henry, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Cara Romero, Elias Sime, Cauleen Smith, Anne Spalter, Stan VanDerBeek, Carrie Mae Weems, Jennifer West, Saya Woolfalk
1967
Mechanical drawing in white India ink on black cartridge paper, hand embellished bronze wax crayon, collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
1964-65
Mechanical drawing in brown and purple felt tip inks and orange and blue technical tube pen inks on white drawing paper, collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
2017
Digital inkjet pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Fibre paper, collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
2013
Single-channel digital video (color, silent), monitor, tempered glass, steel, collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
1978
Single-channel SD video (color, sound), Monitor or projector, collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
2020-2021
On Loan From The Artist
1999
Single-channel SD video (color, sound), collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
1989
Single-channel SD video (color, silent), 9 in. CRT monitor, 19 in. CRT monitor, Artist-modified altar and cabinet, Antenna, Mixed media altar offerings, collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
1967-68
Single-channel digital video (color, sound), transferred from 16mm film, monitor or projector, collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
2017
Single-channel 4K video (color, sound), Transferred from 16mm film, Monitor or projector, collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
2014
Custom electronics (color, silent), LEDs, circuitry, metal, wire, collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
2018
Single-channel digital video (color, sound), projector, collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
2009-10
Flattened bottle caps, motherboards, nails and reclaimed plastic elements on panel, collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
2016
Single-channel HD video (color, sound), transferred from 35mm optical print and negative, collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
1984-89
Interactive custom software animation (color, sound), touchscreen, monitor or projector, collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
2019
Single-channel HD video (color, sound), media player, monitor, polychrome steel & wood frame, collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
2015
16mm polyester film, Polyester thread, Lithography ink, Lightbox frame, collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
2014
Reclaimed computer keyboard keys on panel, collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
2009-2010
Single-channel digital video (color, sound), collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
2022
Digital inkjet pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Fibre paper, collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation