QUANTIFYING PLAY The Jago Gallery, 77 Redchurch Street, London E2 7DJ
20th September - 5th October 2008
Open Daily: 12pm - 6pm Late Night Opening: Thursday 25th September & 2nd October 12pm - 9pm
Systems have become a underlying factor in our lives, whether we realsie this or not. It has become part of our everyday routine, our post modern rituals. To some of us it is part of our mundane background and the contemporary existence we take for granted and to others it is significant in establishing complex structures and arrangements. It is quite possible that our realization of such formations that helps us perceive an understanding our own disposition.
'Quantifying Play' highlights the use of systems in its use of communication and function and how the viewer perceives it. Technology has evolved over the last decade, so much so that it has enabled artists' to work in ways that had seemed previously impossible. It has opened up possibilities of communication and interaction that places the viewer directly in the fold of the artist's concept and vision.
Through contextualization or even subverting these systems through imagery and aesthetics in such a way, it opens up possibility to form meanings and perceptions from a stand point that we may have never considered before. Viewing art has become more of a two way responsive experience, reflective of our consumption for interaction within the social, technological arena.
With the element of surprise around every corner and each installation working hand in hand, the observer can engage in a personal encounter with the artwork and appeal to the playful consciousness of the inner child and its discerning receptivity to create an interpretation of its own.
