ANDREW NORMAN WILSON

Rhizome published a conversation between Louis Doulas and I regarding ScanOps, the informational proletariat, the Google commodity, the Lumière brothers, movement, and more.

Workers Leaving the Googleplex has won a Golden Gate Award in the Short Film category of the 55th San Francisco International Film Festival. More info here.

Workers Leaving the Googleplex will screen in the Made in USA program at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Screening Times are Sunday April 22 at 6;45 pm and Tuesday May 1 at 3:30 pm.

American Medium is a multimedia exhibition platform for contemporary art in New York City. ScanOps will be on view at the gallery’s launch, which features Jon Rafman’s MMXII BNPJ. They are presenting one of my _Webinars videos on their website – click the icon in the lower right corner to view it.

My work will be featured at American Medium in June. Details forthcoming.

Art Metropole and Images Festival present:

Google User Meeting/ScanOps and Workers Leaving the Googleplex
by Andrew Norman Wilson

Performance/Lecture:
6:30-8pm, Fri., April 20
Art Metropole, 788 King St. W.

Exhibition:
Fri., April 20 – Sat., April 28
Art Metropole, 788 King St. W.

Film Screening:
Fri., April 20, 9pm
Images Festival
Jackman Hall at the Art Gallery of Ontario

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Workers Leaving the GooglePlex (previously screened at Art Metropole on the occasion of the launch of The Coming Envelope`s Issue 4 in November 2011) investigates a top secret, marginalized class of workers at Google’s international corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley. Andrew Norman Wilson’s film documents the mysterious yellow badge-wearing ScanOps Google workers, while simultaneously chronicling the complex events surrounding his own dismissal from the company. The reference to the Lumière Brother’s 1895 film Workers Leaving the Factory situates the video within motion picture history, suggesting transformations and continuities in arrangements of labour, capital, media, and information.

The ScanOps project is based on Google Books images in which software distortions, the scanning site, and the hands of ScanOps employees are visible. Through varied analog presentations of these images, the technologies and processes used are emphasized. These re-materializations are treated as photography— taking the form of framed image-sculptures, compiled in a mobile book-sculpture, and presented in a performance-lecture.

A Google User Meeting will be held at Art Metropole at 6:30pm. Andrew Norman Wilson employs corporate, academic and artistic lecture techniques to the intertwining concerns of both projects. Medium-specific considerations and various histories of the film, video, photography and publishing media are addressed, emphasizing the materiality of analog and digital media and the labor processes required for transitioning between these forms.

In addition to the Google User Meeting, the image-sculptures from the ScanOps series will be inaugurated the same night, and stay on view at Art Metropole until April 27, 2012. All proceeds of the ScanOps’ sales will support an upcoming ScanOps subscription service and publication released by Art Metropole.

This event will be followed by a 9 pm screening of Workers Leaving the Googleplex at the
Images Festival, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario.

http://www.artmetropole.com/
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
http://www.google.com/

The New Museum in New York and ArtAsiaPacific have just co-published the Art Spaces Directory, “an international guide to the sites where contemporary art and artists are nurtured, interrogated and sustained.” My work is discussed twice – once with Appendix Space in Portland and once with extra extra in Philadelphia. Thanks to Travis, Zach, Josh, Daniel, Derek, and Joe for being such great friends + collaborators.

I am showing work with New Capital at the Dependent Art Fair.

Saturday
March 10, 2012
12 – 8 P.M.

The Comfort Inn
136 Ludlow Street
New York, NY 10002

Ben and Chelsea from New Capital just started a store.

My Mental Tootscapes relaxation kit can be purchased for $350.

Workers Leaving the Googleplex / ScanOps

February 29th-March 4th, 11am-6pm, Reed College Art Building

Google User Meeting presentation: March 2nd, 6:30 pm

Lumière and Beyond
Thursday, February 2, 7:15
Cornell Cinema

In advance of the live performance, Bring on the Lumière!, a dance-theater-light installation/performance by choreographer Catherine Galasso ‘06, taking place Friday, February 10 @ 7:30 pm in the Schwartz Center, we present not only some of the French founding fathers of cinema’s short actualities, but also a collection of more recent films inspired by the Lumières. Thanks to Steve Polta and the San Francisco Cinematheque. Cosponsored with the Cornell Council for the Arts.

Featuring work by Auguste and Louise Lumière, Ken Jacobs, Malcolm Le Grice, Peter Tscherkassky, Eve Heller, Lyle Pearson, Andrew Norman Wilson, and Bertrand Tavernier.