MAX CAPACITY
Exhibits

SPEED SHOW: while loop is true

Year
2011

Max Capacity participated in 'SPEED SHOW Chicago: while loop is true,' a one-night browser art exhibition on public internet cafe computers on April 27, 2011. Curated by JonCates as part of Aram Bartholl's Speed Show series. Max's work 'RMQNAK1281772466' was displayed.

SPEED SHOW: while loop is true

  • Concept: Aram Bartholl’s Speed Show series (browser art in internet cafes)
  • Curator: JonCates
  • Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA (pop-up in a public internet cafe)
  • Date: 27 April 2011, 6–8 PM
  • Format: IRL — One-night browser/net art exhibition on public internet cafe computers

Description

Part of Aram Bartholl’s ongoing Speed Show series, which presents net art in public internet cafes — the gallery “frame” is the browser window on a shared public computer. This Chicago edition was curated by JonCates, who also organized GLI.TC-H BUMP 2010 the previous year.

  • RMQNAK1281772466 – MAX CAPACITY (2011) — listed first in the program; paired with “White Man Comes” by Farson’s Army (mixtape track). Tumblr source: maxcapacity.tumblr.com/post/951497852/

Artists

  • MAX CAPACITY
  • Christina Kassi
  • onehalfprince
  • Whitney Carrier
  • Sage Keeler
  • creepysleepovers (Valerie Brewer) with Alex Inglizian
  • Pall Thayer
  • Saya Da Jung
  • Derek Repsch

Venue

COPYMAX, 1321 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622. Free admission. The exhibition was also a mixtape — each artist’s web-based artwork was paired with a music track, and a limited-edition cassette tape was made (18 tracks, Side A forwards / Side B backwards). Supported by the Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Department.

Cross-References

  • JonCates also curated GLI.TC-H BUMP 2010 — Max was in his orbit during 2010–2011
  • Part of Aram Bartholl’s Speed Show series — previous editions in Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam, Paris, NYC
  • Distinct from later Speed Show entries in the archive (e.g., Transfer3D Speed Show - Wrocław)

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