Visitors to 438 Union Avenue may be surprised to note that scrappy gallery Klaus von Nichtssagend appears to have gone the way of other mid-noughties Brooklyn establishments, replaced by a white-on-white outpost of Apple-esque technology prototypes, courtesy of artist Alex Dodge and his registered LLC, Generative. There, on a grey trade-show carpet within a perimeter of recessed fluorescents, a visitor can lounge prone on a massage table and lose not a New York multitasking minute, thanks to a suspended computer workstation, or admire the sheen and finishing of Wearable Interface (GEN-1J) (all works 2010), a ‘cross-seasonal jacket’ equipped with onboard processor, USB ports and microphones, which provides real-time responses to a user’s environment, be it a wooded terrain or (likelier) rooftop cocktail party. Read More