ELYSE JOHNSON

25East Gallery and Parsons School of Design Presents: FOMO: Future Outlines, Missing Objects, curated by Elyse Johnson. 

FOMO comes to us in an era of user error, collective insecurity, and evolving non-verbal cues. In 2015, Apple introduced a new line of emojis, including 198 additional national flags and revised preexisting icons with new, racially diverse designs. The update gave users the ability to send and receive characters with five possible skin and hair pigmentations. To those still putting off the latest update, these characters remained invisible- replaced with a “question mark box” or “alien” character. The exhibition’s title is an amended version of contemporary acronym “FOMO,” or “Fear of Missing Out,” commonly used to describe the anxiety and dread experienced as a byproduct of social media’s culture of connectivity. In the gaps between identity and persona, we may find infinite intersections of visibility and erasure; fear and myth. The impossibility of ever completely identifying oneself in a single instant is a prevailing failure: a glitch, an event, and finally, an icon.

Curator: Elyse Johnson

Artists:

Liliana Farber

Caroline Garcia

Jazzmint Dash (Michael Grasso)

John Holland

Elyse Johnson

Java Jones

Jack Meriwether

Francisco Eraso Jr.

Alex Salerno

Heavenly Host, Performance by Elyse Johnson

SMS, Performance by Mylo Mu

SMS, Performance by Mylo Mu

Heavenly Host, Performance by Elyse Johnson

(Left to Right) Liliana Farber, Jazzmint Dash, John David Holland, Mylo Mu

(Left to Right) Caroline Garcia, Liliana Farber, Jazzmint Dash, John David Holland, Mylo Mu, Jack Meriwether,

(Left to Right) Liliana Farber, Jazzmint Dash, John Holland, Mylo Mu, Jack Meriwether, Alex Salerno

Video by Jazzmint Dash

(Left to Right) Jack Meriwether, Alex Salerno, Elyse Johnson, Java Jones, Liliana Farber

Transcripts by Jack Meriwether

Photo by Alex Salerno and Francisco Eraso Jr. 

Mixed Media Painting by John David Holland

(Left to Right) Elyse Johnson, Java Jones

Sculpture by Alex Salerno

(Left to Right) Java Jones, Alex Salerno

Installation by Java Jones

Video by Caroline Garcia

FOMO Performance Promo