Christopher Ottinger: Arcade
Saturday, Sep 15 – Oct 20, 2018 5 – 8 pm8 S. Michigan Ave.
Ste. 620
Chicago, IL 60603
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Christopher Ottinger works with the moving image as a thing in itself, removed from a specific individual narrative and presented as an artifact of our shared cultural history. His samples are chosen from more than a century of technology: projection, scanning, and interactive video games. These images are isolated from context, and then presented along with their technology — the physical manifestations which show them as a unified phenomenon. In ARCADE, Ottinger hopes to rekindle that sense of wonder and awe that people in the past, seeing moving images for the first time, must have felt.