"A museum is a repository for objects," says artist Rebeca Bollinger, "but most of them are never seen." As part of Museum Pieces, a self-reflective exhibit at San Francisco's M. H. de Young Museum, Bollinger has liberated 78,000 pieces from the digital catalogs of the de Young and the city's Palace of the Legion of Honor. From now until March 2000, these plates will scroll across the gallery wall as part of a loop of 10,000 glasses, coins, and other holdings. This 10- by 6-foot animated mosaic of color and shape, explains Bollinger, "is no longer about the image, but becomes an informational pattern."
"Once items are categorized, archived, and indexed, they're systemized, in a way, to not be in front of us anymore," says Bollinger, who's spent several years turning databases and digital catalogs into art (www.notcommon.com/rebeca). "This piece is about forgetting."
ELECTRIC WORD
Wooden Expression
One-Night Stand
Reboot
Softwear
Scrolling Past
Snake Eyes
Log On
