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The exhibition restages a series of works that Julia Scher realized in 2000 at the Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York. The installation is centered around microwaves—literally and thematically—both as microwave ovens and as electromagnetic microwaves. These are set in an almost techno-alchemical laboratory in the exhibition space—on workbenches, in various display situations, dismantled and transformed into fantastic media chimeras. In the context of Scher’s examination of the entanglements of technology, society, and desire, microwaves emerge as interfaces, allegories, and ur-appliances of the information age.
The exhibition is also closely connected to Julia Scher’s teaching position at MIT in Cambridge. Here, in the legendary and now-demolished Building 20 and its so-called “Rad Lab,” the basics of microwave radar and surveillance technology were developed, making MIT the largest wartime R&D contractor of the U.S. and prototyping strong institutional links between...More
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The exhibition restages a series of works that Julia Scher realized in 2000 at the Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York. The installation is centered around microwaves—literally and thematically—both as microwave ovens and as electromagnetic microwaves. These are set in an almost techno-alchemical laboratory in the exhibition space—on workbenches, in various display situations, dismantled and transformed into fantastic media chimeras. In the context of Scher’s examination of the entanglements of technology, society, and desire, microwaves emerge as interfaces, allegories, and ur-appliances of the information age.
The exhibition is also closely connected to Julia Scher’s teaching position at MIT in Cambridge. Here, in the legendary and now-demolished Building 20 and its so-called “Rad Lab,” the basics of microwave radar and surveillance technology were developed, making MIT the largest wartime R&D contractor of the U.S. and prototyping strong institutional links between...More
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