SNAP, in partnership with the University of Alberta Art and Design Graduate Students Association (ADGSA) presents a group exhibition that explores the ways digital, genetic and linguistic codes shape our bodies, subjectivities and interpersonal relations. The graduate students featured in this exhibition investigate the boundaries of coding processes to challenge the presumed stability and fixity of code. They exploit the glitches, interference and translation inherent in coding systems to generate new and often surprising results. This exhibition at SNAP features the work of numerous artists using a wide range of artistic disciplines.

The ways the in which we understand digital code resonates with how we think about our minds and bodies, especially in light of medical projects like genetic mapping and neuroimaging. These technologies have shaped a view of the body as living code: knowable, malleable and therefore controllable. Several works in the exhibition challenge the notion of a programmable body.

This complex negotiation between code and subject is carried through to artworks that address linguistic code—written, spoken and embodied—as a site of identity formation. Language shapes us and our social worlds. We speak, write, and gesture ourselves into existence.

Collectively, the artworks included in Encoding Identities traverse the ruptures, overlaps and blurred edges around systems of codification. From its function as a source material to its mediating influence in spectatorship, code is increasingly significant in the ways in which we conceptualize and construct identities. We form code, and are in turn formed by it.

Featuring work by:

Megan Dyck
Cate Francis
Mario Gallucci
Patricia Huljin
Edith Krause
Lisa Matthias
Brad Necyk
Mitch Patrick
Grace Sippy
Darian Goldin Stahl

On view from April 12th - April 28th

More details here: http://brooklyncollegemfa.com/2013/03/19/2013-mfa-thesis-exhibition/

Encoding Identities
At SNAP GALLERY via University of Alberta, Edmonton, CA
Opening May 15th

details here

Image Lexicons on the Criss-Crossing Language Panel

I’ll be giving a brief presentation on my work at Hunter College on March 19th along with two other artists from 6-8pm.

I’ll be participating in this years Theorizing the Web conference with a plethora of like minded individuals at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York.

Society has been infiltrated by new digital technologies with potentially profound consequences. It makes sense to ask what’s changed? How has it changed? How much? Researchers and companies have gathered enormous amounts of data to ostensibly answer these questions, but the full implications of this data too often go unexplored. The Web is not a new, separate sphere, but part of the same social reality about which critical social theorists have produced several centuries worth of insight. These theories may be profitably used, tweaked, or even abandoned in light of contemporary realities. What previous theoretical tools help us understand these changes? What new theories should be created?

The Theorizing the Web conference seeks to bring together an inter/non-disciplinary group of scholars, journalists, artists, and commentators to theorize the Web. As in the past, we encourage interrogations of power, social inequality, and social justice; intersections of gender, race, class, age, sexual orientation, and disability will be woven throughout the conference.

program:
http://www.theorizingtheweb.org/2013/program.html
people:
http://www.theorizingtheweb.org/2013/participants.html

I’m part of a group exhibition accompanying the 2013 Neil Postman Graduate Conference coming up at NYU. The conference / exhibition will take place on February 22nd:

Para|Sites: Locations and Dislocations of Media:

Para|Sites aims to examine media practices that transform what is regulated and controlled, actions that reveal and exploit gaps in existing social, cultural, political and educational frameworks. “Para” indicates that which is to one side of, beyond, or alongside. This conference addresses the ways that media practices can subvert, recode, co-opt, and reroute networks, systems, and traditional media structures to achieve social and cultural agendas. At times these practices can occur at the expense of particular hosts: they exhibit “parasitical” behaviors in order to move into—or through—spaces in ways they cannot on their own. They can also generate alternative structures and divergent networks (“para-sites”) that facilitate undisciplined and innovative practices. As a field, media studies can be considered para-sited, hosting conflicts and confluences, challenging the very idea of disciplines, borders and identity. This conference aims to also look at possibilities in the field of media studies within disjunctures, dislocations, disruption, and crises, producing potentialities and alternatives.

The exhibition features work by:

Taeyoon Choi
Joshua Clayton
Duane Reade
Constant Dullaart
Mitch Patrick
Katie Steciw
Laura Yuile

details here

/// I’m attending the CAA 2013 Art Exchange forum on February 15th in the East Ballroom Foyer. 5:30-7:30pm-3rd Floor.

///There will be a cash bar available.

///Come network with me.

///Details here

3 new videos / click through for details.