Ingo Günther: World Processor
New Mexico, Hanover, 03/24/2017 - 05/28/2017
Darmouth College
Art encompasses all things, so it is not surprising that artists have
embraced big data as both a tool and a subject of their work. Ingo Günther, who
studied ethnology and cultural anthropology at Frankfurt University and
sculpture and media at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, has been mapping data onto a
sea of illuminated globes in his World Processor series for fifteen
years. The series is now internationally renowned and numbers over one thousand
objects, a selection of which will be available to Hood Downtown visitors for
the first time. The artist’s envisioning of complex data on physically identical
but content-specific illuminated globes foregrounds scientific, economic, and
historical information to create multilayered accounts of the relationship
between humans and the planet.
This exhibition is paired with Mining Big Data: Artists’ Global
Concerns in the Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center, from March 24 through
April 30. Both exhibitions reveal how artists use information to create new
forms and ways of understanding global issues.
This
exhibition was organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, and generously
supported by the Hansen Family Fund and the Marie-Louise and Samuel R. Rosenthal
Fund.
Curated by Juliette Bianco, Deputy Director /
Katherine W. Hart, Senior Curator of Collections and Barbara C. & Harvey P.
Hood 1918 Curator of Academic Programming