Web Safe 2k16

2/16/16 — 9/18/16

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Web Safe 2k16 is a literary/graphic project exploring our memories of the pre-broadband Internet and related technologies. The project uses Lynda Weinman’s Web Safe color palette as a field of reference constraining a large and heterogeneous archive of personal recollections: 216 authors write 216 words each, inspired by a specific color in the web safe range.” - Jo Livingston

Live Events:

Web Safe 2k16 at 64 Bits, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, 30 March - 21 April 2017

Web Safe 2k16 Live in London, 21 March 2017, Ace Hotel, Shoreditch

Web Safe 2k16 Live in Boston, November 19, 2016, PRX Podcast Garage

Web Safe 2k16 Live in New York, September 18, 2016, Brooklyn Book Festival


Used Books

Used Books, Solo Show, Good Work Gallery, Brooklyn, 2014

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Curated by Joshua Caleb Weibley. Works included were Doubles, Doublespace, Interaction of Interaction of Color, It’s the Ghost, Let’s Be Frank and Typo. There was an interview around the show via Electric Literature.

 

Taking nods from Conceptualism, and with a fondness for free culture and secondary markets, Ben Sisto’s work cuts —sometimes literally— through years of canonical figures from art history up to the present. The punningly descriptive title Used Books explains both the collected works’ methodology and sources: all materials on display have been purchased second-hand via online retailers (Albris, Abe Books, etc) and local shops (The Strand, Book Thug Nation, Spoonbill & Sugartown, etc).

While he is pleased to consider monetary offers for the works on display in this exhibition, Sisto insists they be viewed primarily as versions of affordable art anyone can collect and create.

Among the works in this exhibition, two address a Cagean non-static conception of repetition:

In the ongoing work Interaction of Interaction of Color Sisto seeks out all 28 print-runs of the 1979 revised edition of Joseph Albers’ seminal Interaction of Color (Yale). Presenting the copies collected thus far calls attention to minor discrepancies in the back-cover’s layout (a collage designed by Eva Hesse) which, along with the different copies’ yellowing and wear, constitute the piece’s titular “interaction.”

With Pair, Sisto playfully applies the same treatment to two copies of a Roni Horn exhibition catalog. When offset slightly (vertically), Horn’s original apparently near-identical sculptures intended for exhibition in separate rooms now appear in the same expanded space.

The public is invited to view these works and others at a reception for the artist March 7th from 7-10pm.

Joshua Caleb Weibley
Brooklyn, NY 2014


What I'm Trying to Say

“What I’m Trying to Say” was produced for a website called Parallelograms.info, who sent me an image of an organist and asked me to create a web-based work in response to it. The project can be seen as documentation of how I surf the web; the things I enjoy clicking on and resulting connections made. The final stop was a performance with SR Palm.

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