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Decidedly discontent with what passes for contemporary civilization, Daniel Everett deploys its archetypal instrument—the computer—to create ominous, gloomy and, in his words, alienating blue-gray and light-gray photographic images of crumpled wads of unintelligibly scrawled paper (pages from his personal journal) in otherwise empty rooms; cubist paper constructions floating like trash in billowing clouds; and straight-looking batteries of surveillance cameras bristling from the tops of light poles. Remember how you have experienced your existence on relentlessly dank days when you let your attention focus on the remnants of failure or the manifestations of merciless and unfeeling institutional discipline, and you will recognize Everett’s despondent sense of life. One of photography’s services is to alert us to our manifold moods; like it or not, what Everett discloses is all too real and disquietingly familiar. (Michael Weinstein)

Through June 14 at Scott Projects, 1542 N. Milwaukee