With a resolution amounting to 2400 x 1200 dpi, the S800 ejects extra-fine droplets of only 4 picolitre content. The manufacturer also claims an extended life for these prints which are now said to resist fading for over 26 years. The new Canon S800 should reach the market in March for about 460 Euro. Biennial for Contemporary Art in Berlin From the 20th April until 20th June 2001, the second Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art will be taking place. In keeping with the turn that history has been taking recently, the exhibition is in fact a trade advertisement for a new technology.
History often rides in on the back of new technologies, if less often on brand names.
On the walls in Chicago, and in Santa Monica at the Patricia Correia Gallery at Bergamot Station Arts Center, are 40 large color photographs by Stephen Wilkes, the largest about three by eight and a half feet. These are good, straight, reportorial and engaging pictures of a kind familiar from magazines, about people and places in America in the year 2000. But the real subjects are the newest printers and inksets by Epson, the electronics company. What these produce is just another printing process, but a process with an uncommon degree of detail at large scale as well as unprecedented longevity. The exhibition would be called hyper-real if reality weren't a dirty word by now.