RTests: Will Pappenheimer :: November 5 - 21, 2009 :: Opening Reception: November 5; 2:00 - 5:00 pm :: Choate Gallery, Choate Gallery House, Pace University, 861 Bedford Road, Pleasantville, New York.

RTests by artist and Pace Professor, Will Pappenheimer, refers to a selection of his artworks which feature processes resembling or following Herman Rorschach’s Psychodiagnostic directives for the inkblot tests. Using the media of online networks, communications and data exchange, a system or participatory call is set out to test the psychological conditions of a situation. The testing ground includes the intersection of virtual and physical. The situation is often, but not always, collective. The resulting emotional states are tied to or pass through the body politic, individual psyche, RSS news zeitgeist, ecological signs, institutional messaging and media evolution. As quasi-scientific experiments the prescription, the process and the results are all equally important to each work.

Collaborations with artists:
John Craig Freeman
Kristin Lucas
Chipp Jansen

Works made possible by grants from Turbulence.org, Rhizome.org and Pace University.