FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DYG PROJECTS: DAVID ROBBINS, SCANASONIC Reception for the artist on Friday, February 8, 5:00-7:30PM

Donald Young Gallery is pleased to present Scanasonic, a project by David Robbins in collaboration with Paul Dickinson, Didier Leplae, Annie Killelea, and Peter Barrickman. An audio work made possible by recent innovations in digital recording technology, Scanasonic uses scanned images--specifically, photographs of ancient reliefs of Sumerian, Mesopotamian, Greek, and Egyptian musicians--to produce raw sounds that then serve as the basis for contemporary electronic musical compositions. Robbins, an internationally known artist and writer who works in a wide variety of media, conceived the project after which he invited the others--sound artist Dickinson and musicians Barrickman, Killelea and Leplae--to compose music according to their individual sensibilities. The result is a complex and sophisticated fusion of visual and aural media, sight and sound, past and future that is presented as an installation comprising audio, video, and photographic elements.

Robbins most recently had a solo show at Cubitt in London, England and has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. Robbins is an adjunct professor at the Art Institute of Chicago’s MFA writing program and lives in Milwaukee.

The reception is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10:00 to 5:30 and Saturday, 11:00 to 5:30. If you would like more information, please contact Rebecca Epstein or Emily Letourneau at 312.455.0100.