XSYST, 2011
63 x 48 in, black-and-white photographs
Courtesy of the artist and Wallspace, NY; Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco; Kaufmann Repetto, Milan

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EKS, 2011
63 x 39.16 in, black-and-white photographs
Courtesy of the artist and Wallspace, NY; Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco; Kaufmann Repetto, Milan

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EKSIZ, 2011
63 x 42 in, black-and-white photographs
Courtesy of the artist and Wallspace, NY; Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco; Kaufmann Repetto, Milan

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XIS, 2011
63 x 48 in, black-and-white photographs
Courtesy of the artist and Wallspace, NY; Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco; Kaufmann Repetto, Milan

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all images from the website project Language is Wild, 2012
courtesy of the artist and DIA Art Foundation

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all images from the website project Language is Wild, 2012
courtesy of the artist and DIA Art Foundation

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Shrouded Monument (Polaroid), 2008 
Courtesy of the artist; Wallspace, New York; Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco

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all images from the website project Language is Wild, 2012
courtesy of the artist and DIA Art Foundation

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Sculptures Involuntaires, 2006
Courtesy of the artist

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Best known for her photographic and sculptural investigations of language, SHANNON EBNER has long been interested in exploring both visual and textual modes of representation.

For her first web-based artwork, Language Is Wild,commissioned by Dia and made in collaboration with New York-based designers KLOEPFER-RAMSEY, EBNER has composed an interactive sequence of still images prompting exploration of various combinations of language and image. Utilizing the cursor as a means to “rest” and “unrest” images moving continually across the screen, Language Is Wild asks us to negotiate with the work using a simple binary: “YES” or “NO. The project is online since April 12, 2012, here

SHANNON EBNER was born in 1971 in Englewood, New Jersey, and received her BA from Bard College in 1993 and her Masters of Fine Arts in 2000 from Yale University School of Art. Most recently she has participated in the Whitney Biennial, New York (2008); the 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2010); and the Venice Biennale (2011). Solo projects include MoMA PS1, New York (2007), and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2011). This spring Ebner’s work will be shown at MoMA, New York, in the exhibition Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California.