They have over fifty such partnerships, and every nodal point, every combination of production materials, is noted. All interactions are significant and productive. The artist becomes a machine. Miltos Manetas Virtual Chelsea, detail 1999 Courtesy of Ginger Freeman. The culture of art may be slow to assimilate such a pure take on technology as ChanSchatz's, or it may toss its reservations into a vitrine and display them as antiques in the new Digital Art Museum currently being built in Chelsea and due to open in 2000.
Artists working with new technology are always at a crossroads.
They suffer distorted expectations. They are pigeonholed. Yet culture has never been as saturated with tech talk as it is today. It should, necessarily. He is co-curator of the exhibition The Production of Production at Apex Art, in New York, which runs from September 9 to October 9, 1999.