EXHIBITION DETAILS

Brave New World

December 6 - February 1, 2013

PUBLIC + ARTISTS’ RECEPTION :December 6, 6-9pm

JUROR | Katherine Ware

Katherine Ware is curator of photography at the New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts. She previously served as curator of photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and as assistant curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

THEME

Things are different than they used to be, when the idea of Skype was a fantasy in the Saturday morning cartoon “The Jetsons.” Sending a letter or going to the library is obsolete but you can read letters and books, and even watch moves, on your computer. Which is also a phone. And a music player and a camera and a family album. Which fits in your pocket. No need to go to the gym – there’s a kinetic program for that. The car can parallel park all by itself but you still shouldn’t text and drive, not yet, anyway. Your grandmother is on Facebook, your kid is heading for adolescence before hitting the double digits. Every few years you switch jobs and spouses. Vodka comes in flavors. In 1932, Aldous Huxley published his now-classic novel Brave New World, set in a future London, anticipating profound changes in society. What does our “brave new world” look like to you and what lies ahead? Is there a way to evoke some of the psychological issues as well as physical changes? Are Americans living in a utopia of plentiful food, drinking water, and the latest technology; a dystopia of Frankenfood, drought, and personal disconnection; or something completely different?