Group New Media Exhibition at Catharine Clark Gallery September 4, 2010

Reception: September 4, 3 - 6pm, exhibition: August 28 - September 25, 2010

Catharine Clark Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition "Teen Age: You Just Don't Understand", co-curated by Ken Goldberg and Catharine Clark. The exhibition dates are August 28 - September 25, 2010. Goldberg and many of the artists and teens will be present for the opening reception on Saturday, September 4, 3-6pm. In the viewing room is a second introduction to the work of Stephanie Syjuco. Both exhibitions coincide with the 2010 01SJ Biennial "Build Your Own World."

Goldberg's exhibition celebrates the memory of J.D. Salinger through a presentation of more than ten collaborative projects selected from 60 international submissions, each of which is a collaboration involving at least one teen and one adult. The challenge presented to applicants was to address the topic by reflecting on the role of new media and high technology in the lives of teens from the perspective of teens. Organized as a nod to teenagers who will shape the future of new media, it is also a reference to the 'adolescence' of new media artwork.

The projects in "Teen Age," while reflecting on technology, engage a range of media from photography to wooden doors, from cell phones to sofa cushions, from video to drawings-each work responding to the impact of technolog,y sometimes with technology, but often with media that merely reflects on the role of technologies such as texting, tweeting, viral videos, applets, computer games and social media, in the lives of teens.

Born in the Philippines, Stephanie Syjuco received her MFA from Stanford University and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, and included in exhibitions at P.S.1, the Whitney, The New Museum, SFMOMA, YBCA, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, and the California Biennial, among others. She lives and works in San Francisco.

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