Ongoing right now in the Sacramento area, two shows by local flommists:
1.
Jiayi & Shih-Wen Young : Presently Untitled
Data Mapping of 2016 US Presidential Election Twitter Activity
at Pence Gallery, Davis, California
‘This project transforms the 2016 United States Presidential Election Twitter data into a large-scale installation to probe the question of how social media assumes form and dominates the shaping of the future of a nation. The installation recounts Twitter activities of tweets, retweets, and replies using hashtags in support of Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy from February 2016 through the election on November 8, 2016. By articulating major Twitter influencers in this period, uncovering propagation patterns in the data, and differentiating human tweets from AI [artificial intelligence] tweets, the installation exposes the inner mechanisms of a world where true human tweets and tweets generated by Twitter Bots mutually influence each other and propagate inseparably as a combined voice. The installation allows the examination of the machine world infiltration that shifted the generative entropic propagation of social media influence on this U.S. election, and provides a physical space for contemplating the significant challenges social media poses in our understanding of the social fabric and the radical transformation of the ways in which we now relate to each other.’
Exhibit will be on display thru 30 March 2017
Flommist Jiayi Young
2.
Bill Mead, Nick Shepard, Benjamin Hunt : Under Construction
at Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California
‘This adventurous show introduces the work of new Axis members Benjamin Hunt, Bill Mead, and Nick Shepard.’
Exhibit will be on display thru 26 March 2017
Artist talks are 11 March at 5 p.m.
Second Saturday reception 11 March after 6 p.m.
Flommist Bill Mead
—steve mehallo
Flommist Steve Mehallo is a graphic designer, illustrator, font designer, educator, foodie and gadfly. He is the creator and founder of FLOMM! Additional fotos by Don Reid.
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