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The Creators Project at Milk Studios
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Imagine it’s 1993 and you’re contemplating the future of communicating with grandma on the opposite coast. You may begin to imagine a science-fictive device that instantaneously feeds realistic video and audio of dear relatives into a piece of furniture as pedestrian as a television. Seventeen years later, we would not expect anything less from the screens we interact with on a daily basis. The world has changed drastically in this regard—and clearly will continue to do so. Some futurologists predict that within the decade, a few of us will choose to connect computers directly to the nervous system, allowing an instant and accurate transference of thoughts, visions, touch and emotions to any other computer-human hybrid who chooses to plug into. Imagine what this could do for long distance relationships? Or, perhaps more relevant to this Encore story, imagine what that could do for the future of the arts?
The Creators Project—an international IT savvy cohort of artists sponsored by Intel and Vice magazine—has made it their job to conjure visions of what the high tech globalized art world could possibly look like at this very moment and beyond. Although they claim to be dedicated to “work of visionary artists everywhere,” the group tends to represent aesthetics that rely heavily on electronics, as both a means of creations and an aesthetic.
The Creators Project Launch Event that hits Milk Studios (450 W. 15th St.) on June 26 certainly represents this electrsosized aesthetic. With titles like Neon Indian (an indie rock band), “The Digital Flesh” (an art installation) and Pixels (a short film), you might expect the kind of freshly charged flash and style found in Vice.
In case you have not heard, Vice has interpreted an apathetically irreverent hipster culture since 1994 and, in a way, dragged that decade into the present documenting a commercialization and spread of impotency throughout the culture it covers. The magazine has institutionalized itself within the contemporary youth, drawing a large love-to-hate readership from young artists who transplant themselves in NYC. This is the culture you can expect to find at the event: systematically derisive youth fashion, hot-to-the-minute indie bands, and a dizzying amount of high-res, well-lit imagery, allowing the attendee to place themselves sardonically, ironically and apathetically inside a live performance of Vice. The thing to remember in situations like this: You are clever enough to be in on the joke, so laugh snidely and say that you wouldn’t even be there except that you really wanted to see (recently Pitchforked indie band) Sleigh Bells before they blow up the blogosphere.
For more information check out The Creators Project site.
Five Song Encore: Groups Appearing at The Creators Project