LOS ANGELES, CA.- Evolving Perceptions: Time, Space, The Human Body is a group exhibition of international artists defining new uses of electronic technologies. The show, presented by Art In Motion of the University of Southern California, opens Saturday Nov. 6th from 7-10pm at THE*SPACE and will be on view from Nov. 6th through Dec. 9th.

This show addresses how our tools change our perceptions. We now rely on electronic technology to see the landscape of Mars, to fabricate nano-scale materials, and to speak with family on the other side of the planet. These are all examples of how our perception has evolved because of the evolution of our tools. Evolving Perception represents the work of artists from all over the world – with this global perspective they bring a range of approaches, techniques, and views to these problems.

Artists August Black, Robert Drummond, Douglas Gayeton, Mark Stephen Meadows, Marcos Novak, Mark Paulilne, Nathan Shedroff, Shelby Ring, Bob Sturm, and Launa Bacon all work with electronic media and use nascent forms of data to represent parts of the world we cannot perceive without digital technology. The work ranges from the varied photography of Shedroff, Gayeton, Ring and Novak to the large-scale video installation of Drummond and Bacon. Novak’s virtual architecture is generated form music and Meadow’s St Elmo is a database-driven film; a narrative AI/AE system that responds to the viewer’s input. Drummond’s anamorphic video installation relies on multiple viewing perspectives while Sturm’s music is generated from the tides of the Pacific Ocean. Also, focus will be on the work of Pauline, cofounder of the Survival Research Laboratories.

The works require computers to produce or represent a range of different information set in time, space, sound and light. The show, in sum asks “What is the state of the art of human perception?”