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Information as Ornament

Curated by Hudson and Suzan Rezac
Concept by Kevin Maginnis

Summer Exhibition, 1988, Feature

(art)n's AIDS Virus, Third Edition-a detail from Messiah and The Politics of Pleasure/Robert Mapplethorpe/The Nineties was first shown by Feature and Rezac in Information as Ornament, July 8-September 14, 1988.

Information as commodity: currency rates and stock indexes
Information as product: data processing and computer software
Information as culture: advertising and entertainment
Information as power

One response is to start to make work that has no excuse for existing, the way your own existence requires no particular justification.

Other artists in the show included Ricahrd Artschwager, Michael Banicki, Cindy Bernard, Chris Burden, Michael Peter Cain, Nancy Chunn, Stephan Dillemuth, Jeanne Dunning, Gabriele Dziuba, General Idea, Ildebrando, Jim Isermann, Jenny Holzer, Larry Johnson, Shelia Klein, Otto Künzli, Kevin Maginnis, Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruno Martinazzi, Allan McCollum, Hirsch Perlman, Richard Prince, David Robbins, Kay Rosen, Gerd Rothmann, Taro Suzuki, Alfredo Tadini, Tony Tasset, Christopher Wool and B. Wurtz.