"Herzog is headed into provocative territory."-Christopher Knight
"At the nexus of critical information theory, disjunctive
librarianship, and gender and technology studies, ... Herzog's work
is a cybernetic handle for us to use, like Palinurus' rudder, to
cut through information landscapes across time and space."-Amelia
Acker "In our computer age, after the impact of mechanical
reproduction has been absorbed into our bodies and psyches, Herzog
manufactures unique paintings that communicate with each other and
with the Other of technology. These pieces address the power of
words and information to be things that physically affect us.
Replicating / doubling /embodying / one-step-furthuring that power,
she makes them into things, with the effect that the viewer is put
into the position of both experiencing the thing and becoming
enlightened as to the process of how the information becomes a
thing."-Andrew Choate Katie Herzog's cross-disciplinary practice
addresses information economies utilizing painting as a mode of
representing, producing, and deconstructing knowledge in the public
sphere. For her solo exhibition, Object-Oriented Programing, at the
Palo Alto Research Center in 2012 (PARC, a Xerox company), Herzog
exhibited over fifty paintings in the hallways and lobbies of one
of the most storied institutions in the history of information
technology. Object-oriented programming is a computer programming
paradigm that was introduced by PARC in the early 1970's. This new
language used "objects" as the basis for computation (capable of
receiving messages, processing data, and sending messages to other
objects), as opposed to the conventional programming model, in
which a program is seen as a list of tasks. Herzog's exhibition
utilizes this concept as a conceptual and epistemic basis for how
her paintings function as a language to develop meaning, where
"programming" in the exhibition title connotes both contextualized
computer programming as well as public programming. Works in the
show provide expressive, symbolic, and conceptual narratives of an
information era, including "If I Die My Email Password Is,"
"Documents (Heads You Lose)," and "Information Overload Syndrome,"
among others. Herzog's practice embodies a unique visionary
approach to painting, knowledge production, and artistic research,
through a multifaceted engagement of civil service, disjunctive
librarianship, and animal-assisted literacy. Katie Herzog received
a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design, a
Master of Fine Arts at UC San Diego, and studied Library and
Information Science at San Jose State University. She currently
serves as Director of the Molesworth Institute and is based in Los
Angeles, California. This exhibition was made possible by a grant
from the Center for Cultural Innovation.
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