Tech-Xiety

17 - 28 September 2019, Vernissage Gallery, 509 High St , Prahran VIC

Amaya Iturri

Daniel Gardeazabal

Tina Douglas

Curated by Alojz Babic

In Mark Manson’s counter-intuitive novel The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, the author proposes that ‘Technology has solved economic problems by giving us new psychological problems. The internet has not just open-sourced information; it has also open-sourced insecurity, self-doubt, and shame.’

This forms the basis for the exhibition, Tech-xiety, where three contemporary artists, Tina Douglas, Daniel Gardeazabal and Amaya Iturri, respond to this current paradigm of technology with various mediums reflecting as antidotes to the unspoken crisis.

In fact, the exhibition includes a social media challenge whereby the community is invited on a 5:2 technology diet. Are you willing?

Part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Alojz Babic 2019

Tina Douglas is a consummate artist who has devoted over two decades to exploring the relationship between abstraction and charting order. Douglas’ meandering has navigated her through different mediums as resolution is revealed in the materiality of the works.

In tech-xiety, a following vein is unearthed in the pieces that are constructions of dystopian waste. The assemblages are all from 3-D printing errors; where the machines are self-creating objects that become artefacts of their existence as beings.

Alojz Babic 2019

Images:

Tina Douglas, itchy 2019, 3D printed plastic errors on ragboard, 37.6 x 28.5 x 6 cm with acrylic box

Tina Douglas, harsh 2019, 3D printed plastic errors on ragboard, 60 x 55 x 6 cm with acrylic box

Tina Douglas, scratchy 2019, 3D printed plastic errors on ragboard, 37.6 x 28.5 x 6 cm with acrylic box

Tina Douglas, spiky 2019, 3D printed plastic errors on ragboard, 37.6 x 28.5 x 6 cm with acrylic box

Tina Douglas, prickly 2019, 3D printed plastic errors on ragboard, 60 x 55 x 6 cm with acrylic box

Tina Douglas, grating 2019, 3D printed plastic errors on ragboard, 37.6 x 28.5 x 6 cm with acrylic box