Derek Lerner
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New York, New York
The most recent post by Derek Lerner was 1 month, 2 weeks ago…
New York, New York
Posted by Derek Lerner on February 11, 2009 at 09:59 AM
Posted by Derek Lerner on January 19, 2009 at 09:45 AM



Posted by Derek Lerner on January 17, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Posted by Derek Lerner on December 24, 2008 at 12:58 PM

From point to line to plane, into the air, over time. Four known dimensions. Connection, tension, illumination. A small attempt at an impossible representation.
Opening Reception
Friday, December 12, 2008
Featuring GHAVA
at
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141 Division Street
New York NY 10002
Posted by Derek Lerner on December 10, 2008 at 02:55 PM
Posted by Derek Lerner on November 25, 2008 at 12:42 PM


Game Boys is an ongoing portrait series of young men engaged in a familiar pastime--they are playing video games. For the past three years, I have been photographing video game players who come to my studio, sit in the dark, and play for hours while I quietly watch and shoot. The studio setting lends a theatrical quality to this commonplace activity. Sometimes, I watch the game to see a particularly interesting sequence, but mostly I just watch the game players. I seek to explore the popular culture phenomenon of video games by examining the "gamers" who play them. Because my work is rooted in the tradition of portrait photography, I look beyond the hype surrounding video games and focus on the players themselves. Traditionally, the belief has been that a portrait could tell us a great deal about a subject: a window into a person's inner character could be found through facial expressions. Although the expressions on my subjects may appear to be passive, the gamers in these photographs are actually performing fast-paced maneuvers and executing split-second decisions, making these portraits of intense concentration.
Posted by Derek Lerner on November 23, 2008 at 03:29 PM
From the website http://emotiv.com
Communication between human and machine has always been limited to conscious interaction, with non-conscious communication—expression, intuition, perception—reserved solely for the human realm. The Emotiv EPOC uses a set of sensors to tune into electric signals naturally produced by the brain to detect player thoughts, feelings and expression and connects wirelessly to most PCs. The Emotiv neuroheadset now makes it possible for games to be controlled and influenced by the player’s mind.
Posted by Derek Lerner on October 30, 2008 at 01:10 PM
Posted by Derek Lerner on October 22, 2008 at 02:20 PM
Posted by Derek Lerner on October 20, 2008 at 11:27 AM
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Born 1974, Jacksonville, FL; Derek Lerner is a New York City-based artist with a BFA degree from the Atlanta College of Art. His work explores systems: the creation, control, and use of them. architectonic. power, media, information, misinformation, semantics, sociology, culture: counter-culture/over the counter culture, chaos, order, law, code, organized crime, databases, marketing, consumerism, transportation, etc.
Lerner has shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, IL, the Centre d’Exposition de Val-d’Or in Quebec, Canada, BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music, 31GRAND gallery in NY, and Tomoya Saito Gallery in Ebisu, Tokyo, Japan.
He is a cofounder of GHAVA a direction and design studio.
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