Keith Miller, Curator

Moving Money probes the questions on the minds of many in the midst of the market's free fall: Where did the money go? Where did it come from? Was it ever there at all? The invisibility of today's monetary world has become troublingly apparent. We do not "see" our money. It has been dematerialized and turned into an abstraction. While market makers have been using this abstraction to multiply profit, some artists have been addressing these questions and concepts concretely by using money as a raw material, literally and metaphorically, challenging its abstract value. Others demonstrate how money moves and is tied to the lives of people, foregrounding how real the consequences are despite these abstractions. Moving Money brings together artists whose work tries to make visible the abstracting tendencies of our monetary system and our relationship to it.

In conjunction with the Consortium for Digital Arts, Culture, and Technology Stony Brook University

Gallatin Galleries, New York University March 6 -26, 2009

SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University December 4, 2008 - February 25, 2009