Find Venues Where New Media Art Is Popping Up

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Find Venues Where New Media Art Is Popping Up

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New Media Art isn’t so new anymore: The genre has grown too big for the avant-garde and even too big for its own institutions. Now the geekifed form is showing up in places where you wouldn’t expect it — like the Museum of Natural History in New York’s Central Park. You need an art chart just to keep track of it all.

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Event:	A More Perfect Union	X-Lab	M.C. Escher: Impossible Realities	Sol LeWitt: 2D +3D	Six Solos
Where:	Bitforms Gallery, New York City	Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York City	Akron Museum of Art, Ohio	Walker Art Center, Minneapolis	Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus Ohio
When :	Jan.13-Feb. 19	Through Jan. 29	Starting Feb. 12	Through April 24th	Through Feb. 13
Who:	R. Luke DuBois, composer, artist and performer focused on temporal, verbal and visual structures of cultural ephemera	Up-and-coming multimedia, tech-savvy artists in the midst of projects	Mind-bending printmaker, draftsman, illustrator and muralist Escher	Iconic, elegant minimalist LeWitt, known for ultra-precise line drawings and sculptures	Six young artists with a penchant for geek-centric installations transforming the architecture of a space
Why you’ll geek out:	DuBois’s newest works stems from his exploration of time-lapse photography and uses the idea of long camera exposure to reveal the “average sonority, visual language and vocabulary” in music, film, text and more.	X-Lab’s “Sandbox” extends the hacker collective aesthetic to the art gallery to encourage new thinking about interactive design; public visitors can tour four works-in-progress at a time and give feedback to the artists, plus follow their progress on a Tumblr account.	We all now know Escher’s uncanny and untrained expertise in mathematics; these rarely-seen-outside-Europe prep drawings, lithographs and sculptures give precious insight into his creative process.	LeWitt’s spare works actually contain complex, acutely conceived geometric systems; looking at a bunch of lines has never been so transfixing.	Three good reasons: Megan Geckler plays with pattern and form through grids of colored translucent tape; Erwin Redl uses LED lights to create a beacon-like grid on the museum’s façade; and constructivist Gustavo Godoy lets material dictate form using lumber and lighting.