Carla Gannis's Transmedia Exhibition 'The Multiversal Hippozoonomadon & Prismenagerie' at Pablo's Birthday

Carla Gannis presents 'The Multiversal Hippozoonomadon & Prismenagerie' at Pablo's Birthday gallery through October 13, 2012. The exhibition features 'Robbi Carni,' a futuristic frieze populated by fantastical avatars exploring bodily and identity transformation. Gannis, assistant chair of digital arts at Pratt Institute, works with Twitter feeds and face recognition software to scramble Facebook IDs while channeling art historical references like Poussin's Garden of Flora and Cranach's Fountain of Youth. Her practice occupies a hybrid space between painting and digital technology, having studied under neo-romantic painter John Walker in the 1990s. The gallery terms her a 'transmedia' artist whose themes address hyper-mediation and social-networking pressures. The show appears amid broader artistic engagement with technology, including Stephen Ellis at Von Lintel Gallery and Gerhard Richter at Marian Goodman Gallery, though Gannis maintains true hybrid status as a geek pioneer with painterly sensibility. The exhibition is located at 526 Canal Street.