Brooklyn-based artist, Brett Wallace, has successfully completed the world's first drone delivery of art.

This delivery was completed on October 18th, 2016 at around 8:00am ET in Dumbo, Brooklyn. It took place while Wallace's recent show, "If This, Then What" was on view at ART 3 Gallery.

 

 

Viewers can see the video of the delivery and photographs Wallace took of the landing at his upcoming show entitled "Reserved for Engineering" which opens on Friday, November 18th at This Friday or Next Friday gallery (courtesy of ART 3 Gallery). Part product launch, part exhibition, part interactive event, "Reserved for Engineering" is a meditation on the speed, quantity, and spectacle of production and distribution. Wallace intervenes in these systems by addressing labor through the self-created company Amazing, recording testimonials of employees hired by the artist, and displaying a video of the first delivery of artwork by drone. Viewers will shuffle through the gallery turned Fulfillment Center, navigating a space of customized pizza boxes, drone surveillance, and employees sorting and stocking cultural goods, all the while feeding the network created by the space that is Reserved for Engineering.

Brooklyn-based artist, Brett Wallace, has successfully completed the world's first drone delivery of art. 

This delivery was completed on October 18th, 2016 at around 8:00am ET in Dumbo, Brooklyn. It took place while Wallace's recent show, "If This, Then What" was on view at ART 3 Gallery.

 

 

Viewers can see the video of the delivery and photographs Wallace took of the landing at his upcoming show entitled "Reserved for Engineering" which opens on Friday, November 18th at This Friday or Next Friday gallery (courtesy of ART 3 Gallery). Part product launch, part exhibition, part interactive event, "Reserved for Engineering" is a meditation on the speed, quantity, and spectacle of production and distribution. Wallace intervenes in these systems by addressing labor through the self-created company Amazing, recording testimonials of employees hired by the artist, and displaying a video of the first delivery of artwork by drone. Viewers will shuffle through the gallery turned Fulfillment Center, navigating a space of customized pizza boxes, drone surveillance, and employees sorting and stocking cultural goods, all the while feeding the network created by the space that is Reserved for Engineering.

BRETT WALLACE IF THIS, THEN WHAT

October 3 – November 6, 2016

With, IF THIS THEN WHAT, Wallace has laser cut anodyne statements cut into cardboard shipping boxes to expose a glitch where the ad space on the box may have been hijacked in the production process. Wallace sent laser cut boxes to direct locations where the USPS shipping process transformed them by the physical markings they collected. In this way, he expands the audience of the work questions where art exists in the dominant culture. In his installations and relief sculptures Wallace references technological growth and entropy, information containment and storage, and interface design from Instagram to Pac-Man. His process ingests information found in Internet web pages and pushes it through laser cutters or computer numerical control (CNC) machines to physically cut material from information.  In a series of videos, he leverages open source code to convert Raspberry Pi devices into video loopers of assembled footage from distribution centers to motorcycle crashes. The devices frame information as a commodity and raise questions about the risk and spectacle involved in cultural production.

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