FL0ATING P0INT

Columbia University and Judith Charles Gallery are pleased to debut Floating Point, an exhibition of 49 of New York's most promising young artists from the Columbia MFA program. The show includes work in all mediums—from browser bending video work to terrifying sculptural visions of the future to lush abstract painting.

Because the unifying thread of this exhibition is the shared space these artists make their work, the show's title pays homage to that building. Floating Point, a computational term that refers to a formula or code that approximates a real number, was first used in what is now the Columbia studios in Watson Hall. (Between 1948-1954 they housed the IBM 610, first personal computer and between 1955-1968 NORC the first supercomputer. Both used the formula.)

Perhaps more importantly though, Floating Point proves an apt allusion to art making processes that try to find a balance between ambiguity and precision. Unlike in computing, though, there's no fixed formula to achieve such harmony.

PADDY JOHNSON

Paddy Johnoson is the founding Editor of Art F City and maintains a column on digital art for Artnet. In addition to her work on the blog, she has been published in magazines such as New York Magazine, The New York Times and The Economist. Paddy lectures widely about art and the Internet at venues including Yale University, Parsons, Rutgers, South by Southwest, and the Whitney Independent Study Program. In 2007 she received a scholarship to attend iCommons conference in Croatia as the art critic in residence. In 2008, she served on the board of the Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowships and became the first blogger to earn a Creative Capital Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital Foundation. Paddy was nominated for best art critic at The Rob Pruitt Art Awards in 2010 and 2013. In 2014, she was the subject of a VICE profile for her work as an independent art blogger. Paddy also likes to curate.

ARTISTS

Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels
Cristina Camacho
Jenny Cho
Sam Cockrell
Kelsey Elverum
Devra Fox
ektor garcia
Cy Gavin
Ilana Harris-Babou
Patrice Aphrodite Helmar
Mike Hewson
Brooke Holloway
Cary Hulbert
Bryan Jabs
Stephen Paul Jackson
Coby Kennedy
Bora Kim
Jonah King
Emily Kloppenburg
Yujin Lee
Talia Link
Dana Lok
Nicole Maloof
Julia Medynska
Ioana Manolache
Pablo Montealegre
Matthew Morocco
Leah Moskowitz
JP Mot
Filip Lav
Gina O'Connor
J. D. Olerud
Ilaria Ortensi
Lorella Paleni
Ruth Patir
Sondra Perry
Julia Phillips
Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin
Meredith Sands
Lynn Spanke
Frank Spigner
Michael Stablein, Jr
Rachel Stern
Alex Strada
Victoria Udondian
August Vollbrecht
Cameron Welch
Jonathan Bruce Williams
Jiwoon Yoon

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

The Visual Arts Program at Columbia University School of the Arts attracts emerging artists of unusual promise from around the world. They join a vigorous community, working alongside an exceptional faculty at a world-renowned research institution in New York City, the center of the art world.