April 10 – April 25, 2009

Opening Reception April 10, 7–10 pm

Tucker Stilley

Walking the tenuous line between a “virtual residency” and an unsuccessful artificial intelligence

test, multi-media artist Tucker Stilley pops the hood on his syncretic art-making process. Walking

the tenuous line between a “virtual residency” and an unsuccessful artificial intelligence test,

multi-media artist Tucker Stilley pops the hood on his syncretic art-making process. In a marathon

2 week session hosted at the Monte Vista Projects - Stilley, almost completely paralyzed with

ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), demonstrates via live webcast & installation the method behind the

creation of his on-going hyper-sigil artwork The Permanent Record of Newjack_Rasputin.

“I feel it is logical, my own nervous system failing, that I would spontaneously generate an alterego,

tear a hole-in-space and try to escape. My situation warrants immediate and drastically

uncompromising self-metamorphosis. An exquisite new aesthetic unfolds when you are

standing on the deck of a burning ship. Being paralyzed amplifies the uneasy link between intent

and action and brings into question the true meaning of this place and time that we occupy…and

of what our ultimate audience might prove to be.”

An artist for over thirty years, in as many media, Tucker Stilley 48, attended Studio for Interrelated

Media, at the Massachusetts College of Art. He has worked in Boston, San Francisco, and Los

Angeles as a media artist, sound designer and film editor. Previous exhibitions include ART,

Cambridge, REDCAT & Octopus Garden Salon, LA.

This exhibition was curated by Sam Durant.