Exhibition: February 16 - March 3, 2018
Hygienic Art Gallery, New London, Connecticut
Opening Reception: Friday, Feb. 16, 4:30 - 9 p.m.
Selected works from Intersections: the 16th Biennial Symposium on Arts & Technology
It is increasingly understood that our lives are pushed, pulled and interconnected by a range of intersections among multiple factors of identity and experience including: gender, culture, race, sexuality, and economic and technological contexts, among others.
Future Perfect includes a roster of artists from around the world, whose work explores the complex forces pushing and pulling our technological culture, and our own identities within it. Their work speculates on present and future fusions and intersections between our rich internal worlds, our bodies, our relationships, and the strange inner lives of artificial intelligences, data clouds and social algorithms.
Through works across mediums such as virtual reality video games, social media performance, experimental documentary, interactive sculpture, locally produced audio tours, and more, the artists in the show ask and offer their own answers to questions such as:
- What if our machines touch and activate us just as much as we them?
- What if they could read our emotions, respond to our bodies, and perhaps try to change us back? Are they doing it already?
- What if we downloaded a digital version of all the objects in the world? Where would it be stored? Are we slowly converting our planet into data? At what cost?
- How will this city look, feel, and sound, in 10, 20, 100 years?
- What will you do if the world ends tomorrow?
Featured artists
Angela Ferraiolo
Erin Gee and Alex Lee
Eunsu Kang and Barnabas Poczos
Luis Mejico
Veronica Mockler
Shalev Moran, Mushon Zer-Aviv and Milana Gitzin-Adiram
Juan Pablo Pacheco
Mina Rafiee
Joyce Rudinsky and Victoria Szabo
Laura Skocek and Christoph Gruber
Jack Stenner
Jeff Thompson
Jenny Vogel
Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga
See the complete Connecticut College event release, "Future Perfect Exhibition"
Credits
Gallery Director, Hygienic Gallery: Sarah McKay
Gallery Assistant, Hygienic Gallery: Juanita Austin
Curator: Nadav Assor
Installation manager: Brian Dimmock
Production support provided by the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, Connecticut College. Additional support from the College's Center for the Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity, the Office of Institutional Equity and Inclusion, and the Office of the Dean of the College.
The exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Hygienic Art Gallery, 79 Bank Street, New London, Connecticut.
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