Gabe Barcia-Colombo
Congratulations to ITP Alum and faculty member, Gabriel Barcia-Colombo and ITP Alum Sarah Rothberg, Pedro Oliveira and a profile of their show at Sotheby's in the New York Times!
"Young Digital Artists, Anxious About ... Technology"
by Frank Rose, July 24, 2017
Digital art at Sotheby’s? The auction house is better known for selling canvases by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat for $100 million-plus than for showing what many collectors still regard as ephemera.
Yet the Sotheby’s S2 gallery in New York, normally used for exhibitions of contemporary art, is currently the site of a show featuring mostly young artists who rely on digital technology and who are not exactly household names. Surprisingly, most of the works on view take physical form. More significant, they also betray a broad generational anxiety about the technological future and the role of humans in it.
The catalyst for the show was a curious-looking sculpture tucked away in the Art + Technology Lab at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.