First organized by Dimitri Devyatkin in 1973, the Computer Art Festivals were an instrumental forum for the convergence of art and computing technology at a formative moment in the histories of computer art. Within the short span of their three years -- taking place at The Kitchen in 1973 and '74 before relocating to the [...]

https://youtu.be/-72BIAB7Cnc Rebecca Cleman, Auriea Harvey, Kelani Nichole, Lumi Tan, Addie Wagenknecht, and Tina Rivers Ryan discuss digital art and curation. At the time of the Computer Art Festivals in the 1970s, art made with computers was largely the domain of institutions. From university and private research laboratories to alternative arts organizations and galleries, institutions [...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nmmv8QhmQE&ab_channel=ArtScienceConnect A special screening of the 60-minute award-winning documentary The Art of Un-War directed by Maria Niro. The film chronicles the life and work of artist and educator, Krzysztof Wodiczko, focusing on major themes in Wodiczko’s oeuvre such as war, trauma, and displacement. (https://un-war.com/)  Please join us for a 5pm reception at the GC's [...]

Digital media scholars Alexandra Juhasz and Nishant Shah, authors of Really Fake* (University of Minnesota and meson presses, 2021), discuss story, poetry, and other human logics of care, intelligence, and dignity, to explore socio-technological and politico-aesthetic emergences in a world where information overload has become a new ontology of not-knowing. The two will also discuss Shah's [...]

https://youtu.be/lVsJjmI-BIo Curator and writer Barbara London, artists Martha Rosler and Tony Cokes, and scholar Helen Koh join together to discuss how artists have championed video as an agent of social change for more than fifty years. The speakers will consider video’s prominence as presented in MoMA’s groundbreaking exhibition, “Signals: How Video Transformed the World.” [...]

https://youtu.be/Nwsx94NU7wA innovation:SOUND:technology (IST) series is centered on creative approaches and novel technological advances with aesthetic implications for music, instrument design, performance art, sound art, and digital art. In the first virtual event of the IST series, artist Kathrin Hunze and composer Rob Hamilton introduce their creative works, artistic thinking, and research to engage in a [...]