Artists: Adriana Ramić & Micah Schippa
Exhibition title: Touch is a Bridge
Venue: Hotel Art Pavilion, New York, US
Date: April 28 – May 22, 2017
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Hotel Art Pavilion
Touch, very diffusely and as abstractly as possible implies a consciousness, a thing reaching out, an action or series of actions; atomic interplays. Everything is in a constant state of communication. Light slug beehive shadow grandfather water system river bed electrons millions of suns. What bends through the retinas and sleeps in the neurons? The light from stars taking a million years to reach your eye (imagine the night sky) — maybe a converter is a sort of ultimate touch. I am writing this near a river and perhaps I’m converting the sensations around me into dynamic reverberations. Reverb is touch in the acoustic universe. An artificial intelligence is a form of noise (maybe all intelligence is artificial in that everything is an accumulation of interactions; contact, touch). (Or maybe art is an android, a staged android). Components touch, a neural network can touch, can reach out (everything is reaching is building bridges). Touch is a bridge in a world where everything is moving and unstable.
– Micah Schippa
Adriana Ramić is based in New York. Most recently her work has been installed long-term at Osnovna Škola Đura Jakšić, Banatski Dvor, Serbia. She will be releasing a publication with the Institute for Interspecies Art and Relations later this year.
Micah Schippa has a BFA from SAIC and runs Obst Space in Chicago, and has recently published two books.
Adriana Ramić & Micah Schippa, Touch is a Bridge, 2018, exhibition view, Hotel Art Pavilion, New York
Adriana Ramić & Micah Schippa, Touch is a Bridge, 2018, exhibition view, Hotel Art Pavilion, New York
Micah Schippa, Excavation at the dimensions of the gallery, 2017, Site specific earth removal, 10 x 10 feet
Micah Schippa, Excavation at the dimensions of the gallery, 2017, Site specific earth removal, 10 x 10 feet
Micah Schippa, Excavation at the dimensions of the gallery, 2017, Site specific earth removal, 10 x 10 feet
Micah Schippa, Staging an organism:processor (atoms are not atoms)(higher tensile strength than steel), 2018, Assorted found objects, dimensions variable
Adriana Ramić & Micah Schippa, Touch is a Bridge, 2018, exhibition view, Hotel Art Pavilion, New York
Micah Schippa, Staging an organism:processor (atoms are not atoms)(higher tensile strength than steel), 2018, Assorted found objects, dimensions variable
Micah Schippa, Staging an organism:processor (atoms are not atoms)(higher tensile strength than steel), 2018, Assorted found objects, dimensions variable
Adriana Ramić, Sieciarka z rodziny Kalligrammatidae, 2018, Bread, 20140115_151846.jpg, IBM Watson Visual, Recognition (default), dimensions variable
Adriana Ramić, Chrząszcz z rodziny Byrrhidae, 2018, Push button, 20140115_151906.jpg, IBM Watson, Visual Recognition (default), dimensions variable
Adriana Ramić, Karaczan z gatunku Rhipodoblatta fusca, 2018, Memory device, 20140115_151925.jpg, IBM Watson, Visual Recognition (default), dimensions variable
Adriana Ramić, Muchówka z rodziny Mesosciophilidae, 2018, Mussel, 20140115_152054.jpg, IBM Watson Visual Recognition (default), dimensions variable
Adriana Ramić, Karaczan (Blattodea), 2018, Key, 20140115_151856.jpg, IBM Watson Visual, Recognition (default), dimensions variable
Adriana Ramić, Chrząszcz (Coleoptera), 2018, Paper, 20140115_151837.jpg, IBM Watson Visual, Recognition (default), dimensions variable
Adriana Ramić & Micah Schippa, Touch is a Bridge, 2018, exhibition view, Hotel Art Pavilion, New York