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, [...]

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 [...]