Rhizome is featuring Chris Lanier’s review of the Prospectives.09 exhibition in Reno, which included Gaming the Network Poetic. The exhibit came down last month, but I’ll be submitting GTNP to other venues in the near future. It’s a worthy read; here’s the bit about my piece:

Joshua Fishburn’s Gaming the Network Poetic (2009) links five games in a rosary of G5s, the monitors arranged in a pentagon. The clean vector design of each of the games is very appealing; simple geometric shapes recur throughout the games, serving separate functions. In one game, you click to break a square apart into smaller squares; in another, you try to attach little hinges onto drifting triangles, so that they swing together to form squares. Five people are meant to play the games simultaneously, with the activity of one game influencing the others – I have to confess, some of the connections escaped me. Perhaps this was the one piece in the exhibition that, while it invited participation, didn’t really need it. The five G5s could rest alone in the empty gallery, talking obscurely among themselves about the subtle relations between squares, triangles, and other geometry.

Friends, especially those in Chicago, please check out Dialogue: Presented by IRUS art (an intercultural collaborative art work between artists in Iran and the U.S.) at Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago from January 29th through February 4th, with an opening reception on January 29th from 7-10 PM. This is an opportunity to see work that has so far only been shown in Denver, Colorado, as well as brand new works from new collaborating artists. Read what the Denver Post had to say about the exhibition in Denver.

For more information about Co-Prosperity Sphere, including location, check out http://coprosperity.org

For more information about Dialogue and IRUS art, check out http://irusart.org/