Spatiotemporal Invaders

An exhibition of works by Jeremiah Teipen

October 15 - November 5, 2021

Opening Reception: October 15, 6-8pm
NARS Main Gallery

The NARS Foundation is proud to present Spatiotemporal Invaders, an immersive installation by Jeremiah Teipen utilizing multi-channel video projection, sculptural forms, and largescale two-dimensional prints to create an environment connecting the natural and artificial, physical and virtual, and micro and macro, where seemingly interdimensional spacetimes mesh.  Employing the exhibition's title, a reference to the seminal video game "Space Invaders," Teipen's installation explores how we interface with digital technology, each other through networked digital media, and the fluid interaction of realities. 

Additionally, Teipen compares the effect of our partial existence in the digital sphere to that of an invasive species on a natural environment:

In a biological ecosystem where billions of organisms are waging existential warfare to ensure their species survival, specialized defense mechanisms developed over eons have no chance against a non-biological threat attacking the host organism through the nervous system with a pathology external to its physical nature. Networked digital media has arrived as an "invasive species" to an ecosystem with no natural predators. It feeds its voracious appetite and continues to adapt freely without hindrance or constraint. The disruption that follows is ongoing and uncertain, but the contagion spread long before anyone knew what was happening. 

Is this invasive parasite forming a symbiosis by increasing humans' ability to overcome environmental threats via the extension of their sensorium through time and space? Or will it lead to humanity's ultimate demise when the invasive species no longer need us to further its existence? Or both? What is clear is our perpetual and inexorably altered perceptions.

Jeremiah Teipen, born in Bloomington, Indiana, received an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and a BFA from the Columbus College of Art & Design. Grants and awards include production funds from Asia Culture Center, Gwangju; SIGGRAPH Artist's Grant; the Asian Cultural Council Japan/United States Grant; an Exhibition Grant from the Seoul Foundation of Arts and Culture; and an ARKO Exhibition Grant, Arts Council Korea. Exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Asia include shows at the Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid; Centro de Arte de Burgos; Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku; SIGGRAPH Pacifico, Yokohama; Gallery Factory, Seoul; Cindy Rucker Gallery, NY; Queens Museum, NY; SUNY Purchase College, NY; Monmouth University, NJ, Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ, Columbia University, NY; Radiator Gallery, NY; Showfields, NY; Spring Break Art Show, NY; SVA House, Governor's Island, NY; and Asia Culture Center, Gwangju. Teipen's work has also been featured in the Leonardo Journal of Arts and Sciences by The MIT Press and The New York Times.