The Searchers

The Searchers ask: What is the relationship between eBay and the consumer? Two eBay consumers? A person and their computer? The Searchers uses the construct of a first time eBay seller to explore the way that people connect, or don’t connect, through technology—websites, email, letters, newspaper, books, iPods… The Searchers started with a work of fiction written by curators Amoreen Armetta and Molly Dilworth. The Searchers proves that the relationship between the above entities exists, but that this relationship is difficult to quantify because the connections are constantly changing, and the entities are always in motion. The challenge posed to the artists asked to take part in The Searchers was to materialize these connections. The Searchers assumes that metaphor serves as proof.The Searchers features: Nuno Cera, Ann Craven, AC Dickson, Joan Grossman, Lucien Samaha, Jenny Vogel; with artist publications by Bill Brown, Gabriela Forcadell and Alejandro Cesarco, LTTR, Josephine Meckseper, Aleksandra Mir, Lone Twin, Pruess Press.The image is a video still from Nuno Cera’s “The Lost Soul.”