Postmasters 5.0 and TRANSFER present the collaborative exhibition HIGH RESOLUTION with work by a.o. Rosa Menkman

Sat, Sep 28 - Sat, Oct 19  2024

568 Broadway, Suite 606, New York, NY 10012

Postmasters 5.0 and TRANSFER are excited to present High Resolution, a large-scale collaborative exhibition of digital art, with work by among others Rosa Menkman.

Participating artists: Gretchen Andrew, Vuk Cosic, Damjanski, Calra Gannis, Huntrezz Janos, Marta Kucsora, Lovid, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, Rosa Menkman, Lorna Mills, Eva Papamargariti, Frank Wang Yefeng, and special appearance by Aram Bartholl.

High Resolution will include several classics by pioneers of time-based media art shown along the hot-from-the-studio works by the new generation of digital artists. This high resolution, high energy, high bar exhibition will center around current ideas and technologies befitting 2024 and looking forward.

Tamas Banovich and Magda Sawon of Postmasters 5.0 and Kelani Nichole of TRANSFER are veterans who do not think like veterans.

About Rosa Menkman

Rosa Menkman is a Dutch artist and researcher of resolutions. Her work focuses on noise artifacts resulting from accidents in both analogue and digital media.

The journey of her protagonist, the Angel of History—inspired by Paul Klee’s 1920 monoprint, Angelus Novus, and conceptualized by Walter Benjamin in 1940—functions as a foundational framework for her explorations of image processing technologies. As the machines upgrade, the Angel finds herself caught in the ripple of their distortions, unable to render the world around her.

Complementing her practice, she published Glitch Moment/um (INC, 2011), a book on the exploitation and popularization of glitch artifacts. She further explored the politics of image processing in Beyond Resolution (i.R.D., 2020). In this book, Rosa describes how the standardization of resolutions promotes efficiency, order, and functionality, but also involves compromises, resulting in the obfuscation of alternative ways of rendering.

In 2019, Rosa won the Collide Arts at CERN Barcelona award, which inspired her recent research into im/possible images, consolidated in the im/possible images reader (published by the i.R.D. & Lothringer, with support from V2, 2022).

From 2018 to 2020, Rosa worked as Substitute Professor of Neue Medien & Visuelle Kommunikation at the Kunsthochschule Kassel.

Since 2023, she has been running the Im/Possible Lab at HEAD Geneve.