{"id":2132,"date":"1999-10-02T01:00:56","date_gmt":"1999-10-02T00:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2025-07-26T15:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:28:53","slug":"imaginaria-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/imaginaria-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Imaginaria &#8217;99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ICA, London<br \/>\n2 \u2013 31 Oct 1999<\/p>\n<p>Mark Dean, Nina Pope &amp; Karen Guthrie, Mongrel, Scanner &amp; Tonne<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>bibliography:<\/p>\n<p>Kodwo Eshun &amp; John Sutherland,\u00a0Imaginaria \u201999, ICA, London, ISBN 1-9000300-23-0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/mark-dean-contemporary-review\/\">Simon Morrissey, \u2018Nothing here, nothing to fear: The work of Graham Gussin and Mark Dean\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0Contemporary Visual Arts, October 1999, No. 25<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=2135\">Dr. Future \u2018Making the Right Connections\u2019,\u00a0Mute<\/a>, Issue 15, Dec 1999<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=2135\">Jonathan Romney, &#8216;Living in a gee-whiz age&#8217;,\u00a0The Guardian<\/a>, October 6 1999<br \/>\nLynn MacRitchie, \u2018Life\u2019s a virtual beach on fantasy island\u2019,\u00a0FT, 22 October 1999<br \/>\n\u2018Mark Dean: Imaginaria\u2019,\u00a0Sight and Sound, November\u00a01999<br \/>\nSimon Morley, \u2018Imaginaria 99\u2032,\u00a0The Independent on Sunday, 10 October 26, 1999<br \/>\n\u2018Techno YBAs\u2019,\u00a0Blueprint, No. 165, October 20, 1999<br \/>\nMartin Herbert, \u2018Imaginaria: ICA\u2019,\u00a0Time Out, 20-27 October 1999<br \/>\nCaroline Smith, \u2018 Memory Machine: Mark Dean\u2019,\u00a0Attitude, October 1999<br \/>\n\u2018PC Art\u2019,\u00a0Gay Times, October 1999<br \/>\nCharlotte Mullins, \u2018Visual Art Choice\u2019,\u00a0The Independent on Sunday, 26 September 1999<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=2135\">Julian Stallabrass \u2018Art I Like\u2019,\u00a0Modern Painters<\/a>, Summer 2000<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>exhibited works:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=107\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/No.Turing-520x693.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"693\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/137296605?autoplay=0&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"520\" height=\"693\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=107\">No. Turing (FRS.jpg\/0-9.psd)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=109\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-113\" src=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/universal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"520\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/137296478?autoplay=0&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"520\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=109\">Universal (Turing Machine)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>gallery information:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.art-it.asia\/en\/u\/admin_ed_feature_e\/ov6jkfl2xlfbgy9u541o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/corridor-text-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13282\" src=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-guardian-logo.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-guardian-logo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-guardian-logo-500x88.jpg 500w, https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-guardian-logo-520x92.jpg 520w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Romney, \u2018Living in a gee-whiz age\u2019, The Guardian, Wednesday October 6, 1999 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/1999\/oct\/06\/artsfeatures1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2026Oddly enough, the most affecting exhibit doesn\u2019t have a website, and functions in the most classic installation fashion. Mark Dean\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=109\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Universal (Turing Machine)<\/a> is a tribute to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=107\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alan Turing<\/a>, the pioneer of digital logic. Two [sic] large digital photos of Turing dissolve and reform, the features blurring as numbers morph over his face, so slowly you can barely see the change. Meanwhile, an electronic voice gives a fragmented reading of a soliloquy from Frankenstein, and a binary-code representation of the words flashes on the ceiling like a map of the stars. Simple and solemn, but extremely rich in connotations, Dean\u2019s piece evokes the chimera of the conscious electronic brain, the \u201cmonster\u201d of artificial intelligence returning to pay homage to the father who could never have predicted the fate of his offspring. The piece may seem traditional and stuffy in its concern for mystery and a sense of the sublime, but seems particularly daring in the over-heated new digital rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re used to celebrating the newness of digital possibilities, the immediacy of the internet, the sense of digital communication as a game open to all comers simultaneously, but Dean is going provocatively against the grain, opting for slowness, stillness and contemplation, a spot of philosophical sobriety among the wow (or should that be \u201cWow!\u201d?) and flutter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICA, London<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[102,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-selected-exhibitions","category-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23904,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions\/23904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}