“Call and Response” Exhibition

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poster for “Call and Response” Exhibition
[Image: Ornella Fieres "The Essence of a Moment / Inverse Fourier 4" (2017) C-Print.]

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Curated by Kelly Rae Aldridge

Call and Response explores how we speak to our machines and how our machines speak through us.

The pulse of communication, measured in clicks, clips, and sound bites, makes it difficult to discern what is being said and to whom. Much of what we express through technology is conveyed by lines of code, but their impact on how our utterances move through space is often opaque. How do we parse these substrates of communication?

One way is to peel back technological paraphernalia to their most basic processes: input / output, post / comment, call / response. In the call and response, one voice addresses many, and many voices respond as one, creating a circuit between the participants through which knowledge and experience have been shared for centuries. Each artist in this exhibition explores this circuitry and how it moves through our technologically mediated present.

Ornella Fieres was a Science Sandbox @ New Lab Fellow through the Simons Foundation and grant recipient from 1822-Forum Frankfurt. She is represented by Sexauer Gallery in Berlin, and serves as a board member of SALOON, a network for women in the arts. Fieres’ work has been featured in PANTA Magazine, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Spex, Exberliner, Juxtapoz Magazine, Art Value. She received her Diplom in Visual Communication from Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach.

Salome Asega is an artist, researcher, and current Technology Fellow at the Ford Foundation. She is co-host of speculative talk show Hyperorpia: 20/30 Vision on bel-air radio and the Director of Partnerships for POWRPLNT, a digital art collaboratory. Salome has participated in residencies and fellowships with Eyebeam, New Museum, The Laundromat Project, and Recess Art. She has given presentations at NEW INC, Performa, Eyeo, and the Brooklyn Museum. Salome received her MFA from Parsons at The New School in Design and Technology where she also teaches.

Sophia Brueckner is an artist, designer, and engineer, and self-identified cyborg. Previously a software engineer at Google and Google Research, she designed and implemented products and experimental projects within Google Research. Brueckner’s work has been featured internationally including at SIGGRAPH, ISEA, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Leaders in Software and Art Conference in New York. She is an Assistant Professor at Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. Breaker received a Sc.B. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from Brown University, an MFa in Digital + Media at the Rhode Island School of Design, and an MS in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT Media Lab.

Sam Lavigne is an artist, programmer, and educator. He has exhibited at Lincoln Center, SFMOMA, Pioneer Works, DIS, Ars Electronica, The New Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and his work has been covered in the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Motherboard, Wired, the Atlantic, Forbes, NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, the World Almanac, the Ellen DeGeneres Show and elsewhere. Sam is an Adjunct Professor at ITP/NYU, The New School, and the School for Poetic Computation.

Kelly Rae Aldridge is a doctoral candidate at Stony Brook University in Art History and Criticism. Her dissertation, Of Cabbages and Kings: Hospitality and Hostility in Participatory Art, situates contemporary socially engaged art in a lineage of rituals obligating one to receive, shelter, and nourish others. She is a Visiting Professor at Pratt Institute and Stony Brook University. In addition, she writes about time-based media and acted as the founding curator and director of programing for The Current Museum of Art. She is a member of NEW INC, where she is developing an educational curriculum that pairs computer science with studio art.

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Schedule

from February 03, 2018 to February 25, 2018

Opening Reception on 2018-02-02 from 19:00 to 21:00

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