Face Time TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT
The Hedreen Gallery invites you to enjoy some Face Time with artists during a series of all-night encounters inside the gallery. Face Time artists will develop new contexts for interaction that push interdisciplinary and personal experience beyond the traditional art- viewer relationship. These contexts include late nights, early mornings, and locked doors in between.
The English idiom face time’ refers to direct personal interaction or contact between two or more people at the same time and physical location. Face time therefore occurs in “real life” or “meatspace” and contrasts primarily with interaction or contact which occurs over distance (eg. via telephone) and/or electronically (eg. via email, instant messaging, e- commerce, or computer simulations).
The term was originally a colloquialism but has entered the vernacular with the increasing number of people throughout the world who commonly and extensively rely on telecommunications and the internet for personal and business communication.
Factors increasing face time:
Singles bars, dance clubsThe rise of the service economy
Collectivist culturesAn increasing number of intellectuals like Esther Dyson and NicholasNegroponte studying the effects of technology in society
Factors decreasing face time:Face time alternatives are more efficient (see Microsoft’s business culture).The influence of the mass mediaCybersex
See Also: Digitality. Principle of locality. Social alienation. Synchronicity
Face Time starts at 8pm on the following Saturdays, lead by the listed artists:
September 11: Anne Mathern and Mike Pham
September 18: Emily Pothast and David Golightly
September 25: Eli Hansen
October 2: Matt Green
October 9: The Oregon Painting Society
The Hedreen Gallery at Seattle University’s Lee Center for the Arts is located at 901 12th Avenue (between E. Spring and E. Marion). We are a block east of Cafe Presse/ Stumptown and across the street from Lark and Licorous.
Organized by Whitney Ford-Terry and Jessica Powers
