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Current Work - "Floating Chronologies", Space 47, San Jose, CA, ZeroOneFestival
"Floating Chronologies; Time, Map, Space 1974 - 2008"
20 x 30' Mass produced black and white poster, 2008
Space 47, ZeroOne Festival, San Jose http://01sj.org/?p=350
Multi-media installation
Supported by a grant from the James Irvine Foundation for Intersections
Space 47
June 4-July 11, 2008
Jesus Aguilar’s video and multi-media installation builds on a current and ongoing exploration of electronic data queried and retrieved by the popular Internet search engine, Google.com. Using the artist’s name, Jesus Aguilar, as the search criteria, the ‘raw data’ consisting of text, images, and sound is interwoven into disjointed ‘floating chronologies’. Taking its cue from the ‘Many Worlds Interpretation’ of quantum mechanics in which every possible outcome to every possible event takes place in its own ‘history’ or ‘world’, the installation explores issues of multiplicity, identity, indexing and archiving, and information politics in today’s de facto culture database, the Internet. Graphical figures, diagrams, and non-linear timelines attempt to visualize the ‘alternate realities’ of the new narratives, reminiscent of history’s evolution of chronology mapping. The attempt is to quantify humanity’s distinctiveness within the time and space of the Internet.
Recent Work
Installation View: Headlands Center for the Arts, Project Space, 2007,
THE GOOGLE PROJECT: current and ongoing, multimedia installation of video, images, sound, and text. View 1 min installation video. 
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"We use technology for the purpose that it was meant to be but we really don’t have a human relationship with it."-- Jesus Aguilar
My was featured on KQED's television show 'Spark' on May 30, 2007. Click here to stream video courtesy of KQED.
Left: Artist Statement, Right: Untitled (keyboard), Installation Still from 'No Entropy', Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 2007.
Link: Visit Exhibition Page , Press Release
