Katie Holden’s floating world (version 2) isn’t just a nice object, it’s a good idea. Crafted from subtle, materially seductive wood and polymer clay, it’s a small wall-mounted sculpture designed to hold an iPhone above your head, so you can watch videos while lying down without making your arms tired.
Across the room, Julia Heineccius’s Tree of Wifi is a solid sheet of brass cut out to form tabs that hold individual pieces of fruit in ways that are both aesthetically pleasing and near comical. (The fruits themselves were purchased from the internet—if you buy the piece, yours will come with fresh web-sourced fruit.)
Both of these objects look more like something you might find in a high-end design shop than in an art gallery, but that’s the point. They’re part of Tech Support, an exhibition that sets out, according to curator Colleen RJC Bratton, to “test whether commerce would improve with artworks marketed toward the wealthy tech community in the city.” She has created a website complete with a point-of-sale, so visitors can interact with the digital version of the show—and buy the art—onsite and remotely.