April 7 – May 22, 2010

Opening reception: April 7, 6-8 pm

Apex Art

291 Church Street
New York, NY 10013 USA
tel. +212 431 5270
fax. +646 827 2487
info@apexart.org
hours: tue – sat 11 – 6 pm
free admission to all programs and events

Big thank you to everyone at Bad at Sports for asking me to send some work for the show at Apex Art. Below are some images of the piece i sent. It’s titled D.U. Beta, which stands for (Display Unit Beta)… it’s officially out of the prototype stage but it’s still got a few kinks hence the Beta status. For further instructions on the operation of D.U. Beta please click here

Instructional video for safe operation of D. U. Beta sculpture.

D. U. Beta instructional video from tom burtonwood on Vimeo.

so i just put up a flickr set of my newest piece… tentatively titled DuBeta… as in Display Unit Beta. i know i want to title these pieces and perhaps all this new work in the style of El Lissitzky specifically his “Proun” titling, but that’s as far as i’ve got. i’ve been calling this piece “Display Unit” for a while now and that refers to the end game where this piece becomes a living surface with screens and what not… but for now the pieces are totally meat world, not moving parts, no embedded smart tech just a bit of laser cut chipboard, paint and tape. And i totally get the pseudo modernist thing and love it. anyhow so i’m thinking of calling this piece Dubeta. a conflation of Display Unit and Beta. in many ways this is the Beta, it’s not a prototype specifically but there are a few kinks still to be worked out…. Dubeta also sounds a bit like Do Better, which is also a subliminal nod i guess to Beckett and his notion of the importance of failure.  so…. hmm. anyhow i’ll be shipping this piece to NYC today for the Bad at Sports show at Apex Art, “Don’t Piss on Me and Tell me it’s raining!’” …. image below shows DU prototype (Duproto) hanging out with Dubeta, you can see more of their antics in the flickr set.