Dmitri Cherniak

Group · 2024

Dimensions of Digitization

Collaborations across time, media, and cultures

ISOVIST, CCAM at Yale –

Two prints.
New Haven, Connecticut

A visitor with long hair, hands clasped behind her back, stands in a white gallery beneath the word ISOVIST in large black letters. On the wall ahead hang a yellow and black grid print and a black-and-white photogram, with more framed works and the exhibition text on the wall at right.View photograph
Ringers #962: The LACMA Iterations and Light Years #17 beneath the ISOVIST lettering, Dimensions of Digitization, 2024.

The exhibition

The opening of ISOVIST

Dimensions of Digitization opened ISOVIST, the gallery of the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) at 149 York Street, New Haven. Curated by Dana Karwas, director of CCAM, and Ben Simon, its computer art fellow, it ran from 4 April to 30 September 2024.

The exhibition brought together prints, weaves, and screen-based works that begin as code and are brought into the physical world through traditional processes, among them works by Iskra Velitchkova, Marcel Schwittlick, and Refik Anadol.

Cherniak was represented by two prints from the collection of Ben Simon and Sydney Skelton Simon: Ringers #962: The LACMA Iterations and Light Years #17.

A white gallery wall with two framed prints above a ledge: at left, a yellow and black three-by-three grid in a black frame; at right, a black-and-white photogram of circles, lines, and white strokes in a white frame, each with a wall label. Below the ledge hang two small framed pages, one with diagrams of peg grids and one of code on yellow paper.View photograph
Ringers #962: The LACMA Iterations and Light Years #17, Dimensions of Digitization, 2024.Courtesy of CCAM at Yale.
A white wall with the title Dimensions of Digitization in black italic type above two columns of exhibition text, with a pale pink triangle at right.View photograph
The title wall of Dimensions of Digitization, ISOVIST, 2024.Courtesy of CCAM at Yale.
A view through a dark wooden doorway into a white gallery, where the word ISOVIST is painted in large black letters above framed black-and-white works.View photograph
The entrance to ISOVIST, the gallery of the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media.Courtesy of CCAM at Yale.
A white gallery wall hung with small framed prints and drawings in black, white, and pink, above a light wooden floor.View photograph
Framed works in the gallery, Dimensions of Digitization, 2024.Courtesy of CCAM at Yale.

In the gallery

Works shown

The LACMA Iterations revisits Ringers #962 through nine variations, each changing the proportion of pegs wrapped by the string, with the original composition at the centre of the grid.

Light Years #17 is one of the hundred works of Light Years, made in partnership with the Estate of László Moholy-Nagy. Each was chosen from the algorithm’s outputs, printed as a film negative, and developed as a silver gelatin print.

A framed print of nine yellow squares in a three-by-three grid, each with a black form wrapped around white pegs, growing from a single bar at top left to a dense cluster at bottom right.View image
Ringers #962: The LACMA Iterations, 2023. Silkscreen print.Collection of Ben Simon and Sydney Skelton Simon. Courtesy of CCAM at Yale.
A framed black-and-white photogram: large black and white circles crossed by fine lines, grids, and bursts of white strokes.View image
Light Years #17, 2022. Photogram on silver gelatin print.Collection of Ben Simon and Sydney Skelton Simon. Courtesy of CCAM at Yale.