Drive Jordan Crandall at Sandra Gering 0ct 22 - Nov 28, 1998 by Janine Gordon - 12/23/1998
	The future is in the present and it's happening so fast it's becoming the past. We've been designing the look of the future for quite some time and several artists lead the way to devise the appearance and functionality of art in the future. Several shows in town indicate a surgence in developing a renaissance in new media. Jordan Crandall challenges the viewer's knowledge of high technology; he positions himself as an infiltrator of information, as both the critic, and the consumer of the product, one who is seduced by technology. The show subsists formally on the hottest fad in DVD technology, video eye phones (Glasstron eye phones), which project videos holographically and utilize a newly developed retina eye scan.
	Magnetic masturbation. The films were shot expressively, swiftly paced. The effect of the montaged films suggests the input of information from our technology ridden society, everything from computers, cyberspace, advertising, and sexuality slurred across the streets of New York City, a wireless stream of consciousness overloaded with information from strip joints to bus stops. We are in a state of emergency from living in our disembodied existence in our electronic worlds. The seduction of both the imagery and the media that Crandall uses stimulate our techno-senses and critiques our simulated realities. Crandall's work is idealistic in his attempt to redesign, for lack of a better word, a utopian vision of everyday viewing material. Processing information.. please wait...
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