Nonspace

Daniel Gordon

Dina Kelberman

Craig Callison

Zoe Burnett

Ryan Duffin

Qiren Hu

A. Bill Miller

Curated by Francisco Correa Cordero and Gabriel H. Sanchez

“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data.”

-William Gibson, Neuromancer

In 1984, William Gibson’s seminal work of science fiction, Neuromancer, illustrated a neon reality in which cyberspace mirrors the tangible world; a place where e-commerce is as physically accessible as a bodega, fashions arrive and fizzle in the blink of eye, and digital information is supreme currency. The novel, written more than half a decade before English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, stands as a prophetic echo of today’s Internet users and the graphic window of data that they experience the world each day.

Nonspace brings together seven artists whose work fringes on that of science fiction. Experiments in 3D rendering, virtual reality, and data manipulation are firmly positioned between lowbrow and high-tech, molding socialweb vernacular into expressions of anxiety, disenchantment and divination. Comparable to Gibson’s anticipation of the socialweb, each artist here embraces the digital nonspace for its expressive value in anticipation of what comes next.