GAMELAND

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Solo Show at Morgan Lehman Gallery, Chelsea NYC

Dates: Dec 14, 2006 - Jan 27, 2007

Flickr Photo Set (http://www.flickr.com/photos/68825455@N00/sets/72157594432599653/)

Through the images in Gameland, Charneco continues to explore the meeting points of real life and virtual life, concepts mined in earlier exhibitions with Morgan Lehman Gallery, Everywhere and Cyburbia.

In this exhibition, Charneco investigates social networks and the gradual reorganization of information on the web into shareable and intuitively navigable 3D spaces. She is inspired by the blurring boundaries between dream and waking activities, the implications of our rapidly increasing interconnectivity and the evolution of an accessible collective memory.

Ms. Charneco's work draws on a number of sources, including network theory, geographic information systems, video games, virtual worlds, childhood toys and educational tools. It is informed by her research and participation in online communities such as Myspace, LiveJournal and Flickr and an experimental community project called BetterWorldIsland within the 3D virtual world of SecondLife.

"I'm starting to grasp the concept;our physical bodies are equivalent to computer-game sprites or chess pieces; the entire universe I've grown up in and will die in is a constructed playing field. The super-reality I'm experiencing is simply what you see when you break concentration and look up from the Game." -Grant Morrison, The Kathmandu Experience

"The secret is in knowing your place in the vast movement of the universe. The secret also lies in best fulfilling the role attributed to you at birth, at each birth, no matter how modest; in feeling fullyengaged in the cosmic game; and in doing everything possible to make the dance of life a beautiful one." -Olivier Follmi, photographer

Self-Assembling Memory Palace Attractor Self-Archiving Library-Temple Emergence Mysterious Memes at Petrie's Playland:

pachinko, magnetic balls, dollworlds, network drawings, circuits

Matrioshka Brain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain)

Gardens and Theme Parks

Experimental Communities, virtual worlds and Utopias

Coney Island Yuan Ming Yuan Black Rock City/Playa Yuan Ming Yuan (Garden of Perfect Brightness) 40 scenes

The Court of Fermented Liquors in the Midst of Lotus Flowers Stirred by the Breeze

Coney Island Dreamland

WonderWheel

photocopied Gameland zine, $5

Tale of the Maya-Matrioshka

Gameland postcard