PATRICIA SEARCH

Finding the Center

June 25 - July 19, 2003


Patricia Search's multimedia installation "Finding the Center" will be on
view at the Amos Eno Gallery from June 25 - July 19, 2003.  Amos Eno
Gallery is located at 59 Franklin Street, New York, New York.  Gallery
hours are Wednesday through Saturday from 11 am until 6 pm.

Patricia Search has worked with computer graphics for over eighteen years.
Her multimedia installations derive inspiration from oral communication
techniques in Indigenous cultures.  The installations demonstrate how
Western language and temporal perspectives create abstractions that remove
us from reality and limit our perception of events to logical analysis.  

"Finding the Center" explores new forms of temporal, spatial, and rhythmic
links in interactive design that define a "spatial grammar" of interaction
and enable the viewer to explore information outside a Western framework of
hierarchies and causality.  The geometry of space and time are juxtaposed
with the poems and rhythms of Indigenous cultures, forming an audiovisual
counterpoint to the mechanical rhythm of the human-computer interface.
"Finding the Center" emphasizes the importance of using fundamental
elements of human perception to bridge the gap between the tangible
physical world and the ethereal world of electronic communication. 

Patricia Search is a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy,
NY.  This year she was awarded a Fellowship in Computer Arts from the New
York Foundation for the Arts.  She has had 19 solo exhibitions of her art
and participated in over 150 group exhibitions in the United States,
Canada, Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Greece,
China, and Japan.  She is a Fulbright Senior Specialist candidate and a
frequent presenter and exhibitor at international conferences on electronic
art.  Her computer graphics artwork has been published in numerous
international journals and three television documentaries.  Her articles on
electronic art and interactive multimedia computing have been published by
many international organizations including the Inter-Society for the
Electronic Arts (ISEA) and the Society for the Arts, Sciences and
Technology (ISAST).  She has received "Best Paper Awards" for her research
in interactive multimedia design from the International Visual Literacy
Association and the World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia,
and Telecommunications.  She has served on the Executive Board of the
Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts and the International Visual Literacy
Association.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Deborah de Bruin
Director
Amos Eno Gallery
amoseno@bway.net
www.amosenogallery.org