My Name is URL / My Name is IRL – Jesse Hulcher and Jerstin Crosby
My Name is URL
Jesse Hulcher
My Name is IRL
Jerstin Crosby
June 3rd – June 24th, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, June 3rd, 7 – 10 pm
SPACE 1026
1026 Arch St. 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
For the June exhibition at Space 1026, Jesse Hulcher and Jerstin Crosby will present a partly collaborative effort under the guise of two simultaneous solo shows, “My Name Is URL” and “My Name Is IRL”. As the dueling titles suggest, the multimedia works included in this exhibit will attempt to define the new media outsider art aesthetic.
Early on, like in the mid-2000’s, Jerstin Crosby tried starting a new webpage… but failed. Later he tried again and was finally permitted to create a myspace-page, but couldn’t make enough friends to continue. Jesse Hulcher was perfectly happy with the websites that he found online, but was later blacklisted from the internet forever after a casual mouth-off sesh in an America Online chat-room. After that, all he knew of the online blog-o-sphere was through hearsay. But then he realized he just needed to register a new Internet name, and the problem was solved forever, or at least for now. (Keeping fingers crossed). He le