Status Update: Silicon Valley in the MirrorReading The Pictures

Surveying the show, it’s too rich and multitudinous to reduce the cultures and the social currents into rich or poor, digital or analog, slick or well-worn. Still, in juxtaposing communities, physical and otherwise (in some cases, pridefully, in other cases, desperately) because two of the artists dealt directly and ironically with the tech boom, one could look at the show as “catching the light” (or the shadow) Silicon Valley casts over the entire region.