Queertopia, curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley for Daata Editions
Launching online on Daata Editions and exhibited at
If So, What?
Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco April 26-29, 2018 https://www.ifsowhat.com
Daata Editions is announcing a new online project Queertopia, curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley, Artsy Private Sales Lead and Gay Times Magazine Columnist and Curator, to be launched at a screening exhibition at If So, What?, a new art fair celebrating art, design, music, and innovation in San Francisco April 26-29, 2018. The project will be released simultaneously on Daata Editions website https://daata-editions.com
In addition, Daata Editions has invited three Virtual Reality projects to the fair; a project by San Francisco based artist M Eifler titled Making the Bed, 2017, and Virtual Reality Art presented by Khora Contemporary featuring the premiere of Nikita Shalenny’s The Bridge, 2017, and Paul McCarthy’s C.S.S.C. Coach Stage Stage Coach VR experiment Mary and Eve, 2017.
Daata will also be collaborating with Label Dalbin and their Table.Video – an acclaimed concept that originally debuted at the Venice Biennale and the Design Miami/Basel – by streaming artworks through two custom-made tables at If So, What?.
Queertopia is a collection of work that reviews the existence of queer communities and their spaces – both real and mythological, memorialising those lost and building environments and landscapes to nurture new radical possibilities. The icons, monuments and geography of queertopia present an opportunity to explore future structures of identity, inti- macy and legacy. The list of artists features Holly Blakey, Rindon Johnson, Zoe Marden, Rashaad Newsome, Han- nah Quinlan + Rosie Hastings, Jacolby Satterwhite and Puck Verkade.
Director of Daata Editions and Technology & Sound Curator for If So, What? David Gryn and Gemma Rolls-Bentley will both feature in conversations at the fair.
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Daata Editions is acknowledged worldwide as a leading platform for commissioning and exhibiting digital artworks, working with both emerging and established artists. Available as limited editions, the 300+ artworks by 70 artists can be viewed and acquired as digital downloads through the website. In 2018 Daata Editions are actively involved in a number of high profile collaborations with renowned international galleries, art fairs, museums, institutions and curators, including projects with Independent NY, If So, What? San Francisco, ArtRio and EXPO CHICAGO among others, and will be releasing a number of new commissions throughout the year. http://www.daata-editions.com
Gemma Rolls-Bentley works closely with artists, collectors and galleries to explore new ways of creating, presenting and discovering art; her specialist interests include queer culture, gender equality and community engagement. Gemma leads the Private Sales business for online arts platform Artsy, which she joined in 2015, and is a member of the board of trustees at SE London charity Deptford X. Gemma writes the queer art column Art Hole for Gay Times Magazine and in 2017 curated The Gay Times Honours in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery. In 2011 she launched the arts arm of the Fawcett Society’s East London branch and ran their 2012-2013 Art Audit campaign. Gemma holds an MA in History of Art from both the Courtauld Institute of Art and the University of Edinburgh.
If So, What? is a new immersive event celebrating art, design, music, and innovation. Taking place April 26- 29, 2018 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, If So, What? will feature showrooms by an international roster of curators, exhibitions by galleries from around the world, and artists working in the field of digital media. Visitors will also be invited to attend music performances and a series of multi-disciplinary panel discus- sions with visionary speakers. Inspired by the creative communities in the Bay Area and internationally, the event will invite visitors to experience art and design in a new way. https://www.ifsowhat.com
M Eifler, aka BlinkPopShift, is making unruly art for unruly bodies in an unruly world. They combine AR, VR, performance, sculpture and video to create new chimeras, things in-between things, between art and technology, objects and places, physical and virtual. http://www.blinkpopshift.com
Khora Contemporary is the first Virtual Reality art production company. We provide artists with the best assistance to develop and unleash their imaginative visions, exploring the new medium of VR. We strive to establish VR technology as a widely applied medium within the arts. We bridge the artists’ vision and the infinite possibilities of Virtual Reality. http://khoracontemporary.com
Label Dalbin, established in Paris in 2003 develops art and design collaborations. Label Dalbin produces videos, installations, and performances at the interface between music and the visual arts for cultural institu- tions and private collections. Label Dalbin also conceives innovative audiovisual installation for interior de- sign. The ambition is to define how digital becomes a new luxury and an intelligent material within the archi- tectural context. http://www.dalbin.com
For further information please contact:
Anna Mustonen,
Business Development and Artist Manager Daata Editions
anna@daata-editions.com
+44 7738098931
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