Exhibition: Outsized Effects
- Type
- Solo
- Venue
- Gradient Projects
- Address
- 218 East Avenue, Thomas, WV, USA
- Dates
- Dec 16th, 2023—May 18th, 2024
Artist's Statement
In “Outsized Effects,” artist Chris Combs uses his interactive, electronic artworks to consider the extreme amplification of power.
Consider the Arecibo message, a real-world radio transmission sent “to aliens” at the star cluster Messier 13 in 1974; it will not reach its destination until 25,000 years from now. A response would take at least another 25,000 years at the speed of light.
What is it like to make a decision that could change the lives of people fifty thousand years in the future?
Or to make a product decision about a platform like Facebook, used by a billion people on Earth: what is it like to have such a powerful lever to pull?
“Outsized Effects” dwells in these power imbalances: small actions with unfathomably large implications.
The show centers around “Allegheny Data Company,” a large, interactive installation that compares the harvesting of consumer data to the extraction of coal. Inspired by the shape of a Davis Coal & Coke Company tipple from Thomas, the “Allegheny Data Company” has myriad objects that can be controlled by viewers—and one big surprise.
Included Works
Allegheny Data Company
Art Machines | 16 Dec 2023
Beeswax/Bits
Art Machines | 16 Dec 2023
Birdsight (Develop/Validate/Acquire)
Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023
Cotyledon (Transmission VI)
Art Machines | 16 Dec 2023
Cryptid Currencies
Art | 07 Jul 2023
Flux (Deprecated)
Art Machines | 16 Dec 2023
Hammond GEODE
Art Machines | 13 Oct 2022
Honeypot
Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023
MacAffy’s Anti-Viral "Revigorator"
Art Machines | 07 Jul 2023
Markov Radio
Art Machines | 19 Jan 2017
Plans
Art Machines | 24 Aug 2022
Rxsqtta-Stzne
Art Machines | 10 Oct 2019
Shut This Door (After Vance)
Art | 16 Dec 2023
This Machine Hates Kids
Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023
Uncontrollable Light
Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023
Exhibition Images
View of the exhibition, 'Outsized Effects'
View of the exhibition, 'Outsized Effects'
View of the exhibition, 'Outsized Effects'
View of the exhibition, 'Outsized Effects'
View of the exhibition, 'Outsized Effects'
View of the exhibition, 'Outsized Effects'
View of the exhibition, 'Outsized Effects'
View of the exhibition, 'Outsized Effects'