Eddo Stern / Exhibition Preview

Thursday 22 October / 7:00 pm / Gallery, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff

Project Outline

Eddo Stern is an internationally renowned American/Israeli artist at the forefront of experimental work. His practice incorporates video game modification, machinima and installation and explores new modes of narrative and documentary, technology and history, and cross-cultural representation in film, computer games, and on the internet. This is his first solo exhibition in the UK.

Eddo is exhibiting a range of his acclaimed kinetic shadow puppets and 3D computer animations: a mash-up of documentary material from online forums, clip art, YouTube videos, midi music, electronics, and hand made puppets. They mine the online gaming world at its paradoxical extremes. On the one hand, the untenable perversity of life spent slaying an endless stream of virtual monsters; on the other, an ultimate mirroring of the most familiar social dynamics: the struggle with masculinity, honour, aggression, faith, love and self worth.

Eddo has also made a new piece of work for the festival - a portal structure. It houses a central projection sequence: found 3D animations of tunnels, wormholes, voids, and flythroughs - the iconic abstractions of computer gaming`s spatial aesthetics, a clichéd metaphor for timeless and endless transcendence.

The exhibition in Chapter Gallery has been made possible through the generous support of University of Wales, Newport.

Eddo`s exhibition continues in the Gallery until 29 November 2009. Opening times: Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 8pm; Sunday 2pm - 8pm; Closed Monday.

Biography

Eddo Stern is an artist and computer game designer. He was born in Tel Aviv and currently lives in Los Angeles. He works in various media including computer game design, modification and programming, building kinetic sculptures and electronic devices, producing film, video, and public video game performances.

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