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Chris Dorland, Error Vault 


  • FALSE FRONT Portland, OR (map)

Sept 26th - TBD 

Error Vault consists of a single looping animation displayed on a 65” flatscreen monitor placed vertically on the floor of the gallery. A shimmering neo-noir palette of gritty, washed out greens and purples are set against a ghostly fluorescent white light that emanates and flickers from within the blackened void of degraded digital artifacts. Lines of text scroll furiously down the edge of the screen, barely legible, as they disappear into the darkness. 

Chris Dorland is a New York based artist working at the intersection of painting and digital media. With an emphasis on examining the ways in which technologies perceive, record, survey and reproduce reality, Dorland uses a variety of screens, drones and other optical devices and software to explore the increasingly tenuous boundaries between physical and digital topographies, actual and virtual realities. Dorland has been developing and refining a unique compression of both analog and digital languages into a singular and dense aesthetic rife with both unexpected beauty and extreme chaos.