Husk Christopher Baldwin

The first project in the Darkside of the new Blue Oyster is Husk by recent fine arts graduate Chris Baldwin. His project is an immersive multimedia installation that pushes the idea of digital art into and through several popular culture clichés. The Dark Side will be like a black and white Matrix using digital printouts as the environment, data projection, and monitors built into the wall and sound work. Baldwin provides the following two references as an insight into his project.

The first reference is from Stephen Pfohl Death at the parasite café, "A seemingly endless flow of informational bits and pieces, fragments of a world that never existed, electronic [fascinations] that have no substance independent of the simulative re-structuring of experience." The second reference is from Critical Art Ensemble The Electronic Disturbance, ''the economy of desire can be safely viewed through the familiar window of screenal space. Secure in the electronic bunker, a life of alienated auto-experience (a loss of the social) can continue in quiet acquiescence and deep privation. The viewer brought to the world, the world brought to the viewer. This is virtual life in a virtual world."

Presented alongside Angela Lyon Tenderhooks and Proposition