https://youtu.be/bdC4HmWnsLw Who owns your DNA? The answer to this is not nearly as self-evident as one might expect. As corporations collect and commercialize genomic data, artists and activists have turned to biohacking to assert their own autonomy at the molecular level. Biohacking: A Conversation Between Artists and Scientists brings together Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Sophie [...]

https://youtu.be/jaCeLMUFrXs Joan Jonas: After Mirage, installation view, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, February 17- March 19, 2016. Joan Jonas/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Roberto Apa, Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York Art Science Connect is delighted to host Joan Jonas, a founding figure of video and performance art of the 1960s and 1970s, in [...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afr6ifnt6ho&ab_channel=ArtScienceConnect   In this workshop Khyam Allami will explore the subjects of tuning and the inherited biases of music technology through his collaborative project “Apotome” with creative studio Counterpoint. The workshop will include a presentation on tuning and its repressed possibilities, the problematics of music technologies, and a practical introduction to using Leimma and [...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVSKZCakeUU&ab_channel=ArtScienceConnect Matthew Ryals is a musician, sound designer, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Primarily working with a modular synthesizer, his music explores aleatoricism, cybernetics, and unfixed forms. Currently, his research investigates human-machine collaboration and the co-authorship of the resultant material. Tiny Mix Tapes has described his music as “filter[ing] the emotion of the [...]

In our time, environments are remade, exploited, terraformed, and subjected to massive forces of extreme weather. Our landscapes — the fauna and flora, as well as the geo-scene of mountains, sea, forests, and glaciers — are all set in a constant state of transition. Some impacts of this transition are felt and seen everywhere. But [...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dlDJyh96tk Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Atmospheric Memory. Photo: Antimodular   The Graduate Center's Art Science Connect is delighted to host curator and writer Barbara London in conversation with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, the celebrated media artist working at the intersection of architecture and performance art. Lozano-Hemmer creates platforms for public participation using technologies such as robotic lights, digital fountains, [...]