May 27 - Friday, June 17
Exhibition Opening: Thursday, May 26, 5–7pm
Exhibition Opening: Thursday, May 26, 5–7pm
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Johab Silva
Johab Silva’s interdisciplinary art practice and research explores themes of environmental issues, time, chance, and digital media issues, through an interdisciplinary practice that involves performance, digital art, installation, moving image, sculpture, and NFTs. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Transformer Gallery, Miami Art Palace, and the Santo André Museum of Art. Recent exhibitions include Cody Gallery, Kuns&Haus Gallery, Touchstone Gallery, The Wrong Biennale, and The Kreeger Museum in Washington D.C. His work has been reviewed in The Washington Post, Sculpture Magazine, Cruzeiro do Sul Newspaper, PBS, and many other media venues. Silva earned his BFA and MAT degrees from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and is currently an MFA candidate at Maine College of Art and Design. Silva lives and works in the Washington, D.C. metro area with his family.
Metajuricaba: is work fabricated in four different digital formats: Virtual Reality (on view), NFT (on view), Net-Art, and downloadable file for desktop computer. It is the culmination of two years investigating the fabrication of NFTs, video works, 3D animations, digital printing, digital performance, video projections, net-art, websites, and collaboration projects that focus on digital art. This process of investigating NFTs through the lens of other media formats creates a better understanding of how the field of digital media works and what types of challenges are often found within them. For the fabrication of Metajuricaba (2021-ongoing), writings from contemporary scholar Richard Rinehart were relevant in the choice to use four different formats to develop this work. Lines of thoughts from the writer Marshall McLuhan about media as “extension of the body” and “media is the message” inspired the fabrication of the VR work. This work explores various themes like digital colonialism, time, digital performance, repetition for conceptual longevity, and proposes clear alternatives for best creative practices for those who are endeavoring into the digital field, by exploring these themes: NFTs content, NFTs and ephemearily, NFTs and preservation, and NFT’s consumption.
