Portraits · R. Luke DuBois

bitforms gallery's inaugural show at its Lower East Side storefront and third solo exhibition with R. Luke DuBois. A self-taught programmer, DuBois explores temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. The exhibition features high-speed video portraits of seven downtown NYC avant-garde musicians, a two-decade data visualization of email communications mapping relationships with nearly half a million people, video portraits of American circus performers styled after 19th-century circus posters, a generative video installation based on William S. Burroughs reading "Junkie," surrealist typewritten compositions on a vintage Hermes Rocket typewriter previously used by Burroughs, and a computational video work processing Britney Spears material. Production support provided by Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University through NEA Art Works grant. Opening reception featured a live audiovisual performance.

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