Physical to Virtual, P. Scott Cunningham and Antoine Lefebvre at Dimensions Variable

Tomorrow, Thursday April 11th, 2013 from 7 to 10PM, SITE95 and Dimensions Variable will inaugurate its third collaborative experience with an exhibition entitled P2V, Physical-to-Virtual by P. Scott Cunningham and Antoine Lefebvre.

The name of this show comes from the technical term P2V which describes the process of separating and moving a physical server's operating system, applications, and data  to a virtual machine on a virtual platform.

In the context of this exhibition, both artists investigate the variations and forms of creating work in space utilizing text, custom made and everyday objects.

French-born and Brooklyn-based Antoine Lefebvre, 34, is an artist that examines the impact of globalization in our always transforming culture which is filled with digital tools that permeate throughout the digital world.

Using 3D software as well as machine and hand manufactured objects in his daily practice, Lefebvre creates work that is both familiar and idiosyncratic in nature.

In the computer-generated animation “Bouncing Ball” in which a vinyl bag is pinned on the wall holding a flat screen monitor that runs an animation of a ball indefinitely bouncing, the artist  describes physics using gravity, friction, and elasticity and questions the possibilities to connect to places and spaces in an intangible and digitalized environment.

In “Not a Clue,”  a sculptural text comprised of CNC-cut Styrofoam letters mimicking the “Google” logo’s font and color, Lefebvre makes reference to the popular search engine that reads as an equally endless solution to the supposed definitive system.

P. Scott Cunningham, 35 is a South-Florida poet and writer who received his M.F.A from FIU in 2008. He is the co-founder and director of the biennial poetry festival, O, Miami and a founder of the University of Wynwood, a nonprofit that curates contemporary literature events and projects.

Cunningham states that for every unwritten book, once given a name, is released into the ether, and the sight or sound of that name is a hyperlink to nowhere.

"More and more, I think of every book as a series of broken hyperlinks," he says, "and more and more I am satisfied with the link to a book, the dream of a book, and for every one book that is dreamt of, how many more go unremembered upon waking?

"Every unremembered book, once unremembered, is released into the ether, and no sight or sound will bring it back. I’ve been collecting the hyperlinks for these books, and I’ve pulled my favorite quotes from their pages," he adds.