Tiny Art, Big Experience

AOL Media Miniature, an exhibition on view at Pratt Manhattan Gallery through April 20, features seven artists 'who create intentionally miniature work with monumental implications.' Marc Lafia, Lev Manovich, Jane Philbrick, Charlene Rule, Dave Simonds, Grahame Weinbren, and the-phone-book Limited present pieces that manipulate or defy scale to create ultimately subjective listening and viewing experiences.

Visitors will interact with the installations to see and hear pioneering Internet mini-movies from the 1990s, films and ring tones on cell phones, a voice recording reconstructed using speech synthesis techniques, and an artist’s Internet diary, among other works. A “Philmphest” of cell phone films made by Pratt students in a workshop with the-phone-book Limited will be shown during the opening reception.

With art made for portable devices like MP3 players and cell phones, the 'mass social experience' of art once confined to theatres, museums, and cathedrals is now personal and mobile. New Yorkers can get personal with the work by visiting the exhibition, which is accompanied by a series of free events.

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