‘Map / Ground / Grain’ exhibition at Inflight, Hobart

Andrew Newman is exhibiting work from his new series ‘Grounded’ at the exhibition ‘Map / Ground / Grain’ at Inflight Gallery in Hobart from July 31 until August 22. The exhibition examines “how in quantum physics (the science of the sub-nanoscopic) everything that we know to be true in our world breaks down at a miniscule level. This comparability to ‘our’ level, however, may be just a comforting myth – a way to rationalise a universe that is comprised of entities both a billion times bigger and smaller than ourselves.” The exhibition also features the work of Ryszard Dabek, Laura McLean and Gre…

‘Comings and Goings’ exhibition at Don’t Look Gallery, Sydney

Andrew Newman, is launching his new online project Comings and Goings with an exhibition at Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery. The performative project explores the abstract of the daily grind that exists in most modern professions, where people are at pains to exactly explain what they do each day. The sociologist Manuel Castells wrote that ‘the process of work is at the core of social structure’, yet most processes at work have become become so ambiguous and detached from any primary action or mode of production that workers now inhabit an absurd Beckett-like…

About

Andrew Newman is a media artist and writer based in Sydney. In 2008 he completed his Master of Visual Arts at the Sydney College of the Arts researching the impact of new communication technologies on the art of writing love letters. Newman’s art practice usually involves whole room installations that seek to create a virtual theatre that can stage mechanical and digital performances that play out in an infinite loop. Newman’s practice focuses on social and economic systems that are mediated by technology and how their implementation affects core human conditions.

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