Co-presented with Eyebeam and the Streaming Museum
Writing in 1970, Gene Youngblood advocated that artists take up the technologies of the moment—special effects, computer art, video art, multi-media environments, and holography—to expand the consciousness of their publics. The theorist claimed that artistic experience can change us into more aware and self-conscious human beings, and inform new ways of being in the world. Our question today is: How can contemporary aesthetics and artistic experience—enabled by the technologies of the moment—expand our consciousness and help us to change the fundamental concepts that organize our reality, like creativity, technology, sustainability, and collectivity?
Following the exhibition Voyage to the Virtual, this evening engages artists, curators, and critics in a conversation that takes up Youngblood's quest for the utilization of new technologies in aesthetic experience, and considers the relationship between expressions in contemporary artistic practice, expanded perception, and consciousness.
Presenters include artist Jette Gejl Kristensen, artist Pia Myrvold, artist, critic, and curator Nicholas O’Brien, curator Tanya Toft, and artist Chris Woebken. The evening's moderator is Zachary Kaplan, Rhizome's Assistant Director.
Voyage to the Virtual: Expanded Perception in Digital Art
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Type: event
- Location: Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, New York, 10016, US
- Starts: Jan 26 2015 at 6:30PM
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The conversation you've planned sounds fascinating, Zachary. I don't know if you'll be looking over the horizon any, at the imp[act of near-term technological developments, but some are very much rooted in the technology of our present day. Among examples: small drones, networked cellphone/camera/recorders, and the like. It seems inevitable that — thanks to human nature and technology — we're heading for more mutual surveillance and observation (by individuals as well as institutions), less privacy of the kinds we've been accustomed to, and more transparency (expanded perception and consciousness, etc.) in all areas of our lives. I've given much thought to this (shaped into an artistic and literary project at [url]www.squeezeshot.org[/url]), as I imagine you and your fellow conversationalists have, as well. Enjoy your analyses of present and (perhaps) future on the 26th!