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"Devotion is a Williamsburg gallery focused on the intersection of art, science, new media, and design. We present cross-disciplinary work that draws from architecture, computation, gaming, biology, fabrication, interface design, open-source communities, cloud computing, sound, and complexity. We are always seeking out artists who use new technologies or introduce new paradigms.
"Detroit-based visual artist Bethany Shorb's "Supplemental Restraint System" is born from classic American and vintage European sports car parts harvested from wrecked vehicles. Her work is tightly wrapped in an outer skin made exclusively from previously deployed airbags, beaded and sutured back together forming another protective barrier in an imagined automotive crash narrative, then further fetishized in glass scientific vitrines. (((Oh come on who can't like that.)))
" Also included in the show are neon and automotive emblem text assemblages as obsessive tropes on
car-culture."
"Bethany Shorb, CEO and Principal Designer of Cyberoptix was born in Boston, MA in 1976. She received her MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art and BFA from Boston University. Her photography and product design work have been widely published in the United States and abroad; her visual art and product work have been exhibited throughout the US and included in numerous private and public collections. Her musical alter-ego has performed at many venues and festivals across North America including the Guggenheim Museum in New York and Movement: Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival.
"A proponent of Detroit’s organic re-invention and prosperity through the help of makers, thinkers, and entrepreneurs thriving while operating on a lean budget, Shorb has called the Detroit-area home for nearly twelve years and is giving greater focus to more community-based projects while still exhibiting internationally.
"Employing area art students and members of the local community, Shorb has taught valuable professional skills through internship, apprenticeship and studio-assistant positions. As a founding member of OmniCorp-Detroit, Detroit’s first hacker/makerspace, she has exhibited at the inaugural 2010 Maker Faire Detroit at The Henry Ford, with Cyberoptix being a recipient of three Editor’s Choice Awards. Shorb is also a curatorial collaborator at Gallery Project, Ann Arbor’s leading non-profit venue for challenging contemporary art. Shorb and her staff have contributed creative and capital resources to 944 Magazine’s “Chucks for Charity,” the ACLU, Architecture for Humanity, The Midwest AIDS Prevention Project (MAPP) and their charitable events at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and the College for Creative Studies."
