Chando Ao Damjanski Huntrezz Janos Gracelee Lawrence Miltos Manetas Eva and Franco Mattes Jennifer and Kevin McCoy Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw Eddo Stern: Machine Violence

Postmasters 5.0 is a moving target – our next exhibition will occupy a spectacular ground floor space on Bond Street in downtown Manhattan.
Machine Violence is a show for this moment, a visually stunning exhibition of topical relevance. It will bring together works in all media from software to painting.  Several historic projects by digital pioneers (McCoys, Mattesses, Manetas) will be presented alongside current works of the new generation (Huntrezz, Damjanski).
Machine violence invariably fosters fear and disruption on an individual or societal scale. As artworks in this exhibition attest, it is left to humans – artists, in this case – to redirect, subvert, and/or transcend the literal narrative.
Fitting the current moment of intense uncertainty along the art-technology axis, this show can potentially triangulate two significant museum exhibitions currently on view in New York: Signals at MoMA and Refigured at The Whitney Museum.
The exhibition location, a former carpentry shop with skylights, brick walls and a 20 foot-tall ceiling, will be cleaned but otherwise left “as is” – raw – freeing the artists’ projections, screens, sculptures, prints and paintings from the homogeneity of a white box. Art can survive anywhere. Joining a salient history of co-opting raw spaces for art: Gavin Brown’s Harlem space, Triple Candie, The Project, Sculpture Center – we will continue this countering flow at the moment of extreme showroom effect.