April 10, 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TRANSFER DOWNLOAD SIMULATIONS IN HYPERSPACE JUNE 15, 2018 – MAY 1, 2019 SANTA FE, NM – Art House is pleased to present TRANSFER Download, a survey of new digital art by an international roster of contemporary artists, selected by New York-based curator Kelani Nichole in collaboration with the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation. The exhibition is showcased in an interactive display chamber called a hyperspace, an immersive projection area controlled by visitors who can select from a menu of artworks to view. TRANSFER Download brings together the latest generation of artists who engage with powerful technologies of 3D animation software, gaming engines, and algorithmic simulation. The exhibition opens in concert with the Currents New Media Festival (June 8-24), during which Art House is a participating venue. Artists in the exhibition include AES+F (Moscow); LaTurbo Avedon (The Internet); Claudia Hart (New York/Chicago); Rollin Leonard (Los Angeles); Sabrina Ratte (Montreal); and Theo Triantafyllidis (Los Angeles); Rick Silva and Nicolas Sasson (Pacific Northwest); Carla Gannis (New York); Daniel Temkin (New York); Alex McLeod (Toronto); and Harvey Moon (San Francisco). A full list of artists and works will be released this spring. 1 On Sunday, June 10 at 1pm, curator Kelani Nichole gives a free public talk at SITE Santa Fe as part of the opening weekend of the Currents New Media Festival. Titled “The Networked Avant-garde,” her talk is presented by the Thoma Foundation in partnership with SITE Santa Fe and Currents New Media. Nichole discusses how the internet has changed the way that artists produce and share work, and how experimental galleries and institutions are disrupting the infrastructure of the art world. She has presented versions of TRANSFER Download at NADA New York; the Chronus Art Center, Shanghai; HeK Basel; the Current Museum, New York City; and the Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco. Since 2013, Nichole has supported artists working with computer-based practices through TRANSFER, an exhibition space in Brooklyn exploring the friction between networked studio practice and its physical instantiation. TRANSFER Download is shown within the Thoma Foundation’s digital art collection at Art House, Santa Fe. Spanning the global history of computer art of the past fifty years, the Foundation’s collection includes some of the first algorithmic plotter drawings on paper, software-driven, generative, and custom-coded artworks, interactive works based on real-time gaming platforms, internet-based or networked art, and works that utilize LED and LCD displays. The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation recognizes the cultural and intellectual value of artworks that make use of experimental and innovative technologies. FEATURED ARTISTS • AES+F is an artist group based in Russia who, since 1987, have transfixed audiences with their films, featuring a special stop-motion photography technique and computer-generated imagery (CGI) used to disturbing effect. Here, they depict an “upside-down-world” in which conventional social roles are reversed. • LaTurbo Avedon is a digital avatar and artist who lives on the internet and makes artworks about expanded notions of identity in the digital era. • Claudia Hart is a New York and Chicago-based artist who has specialized in 3D animation and augmented reality artworks since the early 1990s. Her new artwork uses content from spambots and emojis. • Los Angeles-based artist Rollin Leonard presents a new artwork, “Blob Opera,” that plays portraits of people singing distorted opera arias as viewed through water droplets. • A full list of artists and works will be released this spring. EXHIBITION OPENING & EVENTS ● Opening reception: June 15, 2018, 5 – 7pm at Art House, 231 Delgado St. ● Curator talk: June 10, 2018, 1pm at SITE Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta ● Exhibition dates: June 15, 2018 – May 1, 2019, Thursday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm ART HOUSE HOURS & TOURS Art House is an exhibition space in Santa Fe, New Mexico dedicated to sharing works from the Thoma Foundation collection. Art House’s regular public hours are Thursday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm. Admission is free, and school and group tours can be arranged in advance during both regular hours and by appointment. MISSION 2 The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation recognizes the power of the arts to challenge and shift perceptions, spark creativity and connect people across cultures. We lend and exhibit artworks from our collection and support innovative individuals and pivotal initiatives in the arts. MEDIA CONTACT Robyn Day [email protected] 312-254-3365 Art House, Thoma Foundation 231 Delgado St. Santa Fe, NM 87501 www.thomafoundation.org #### 3 .