Dec 5th 2014

Media Futures

@ Sullivan Galleries

33 S State St., 7th Floor, Chicago IL

Opening Friday, December 5th, from 4:30PM - 7PM

On view through Friday, February 14th

From social media to drone warfare, networked digital technologies permeate our lives. If media do indeed “determine our situation,” as theorist Friedrich Kittler so boldly claims, MEDIA FUTURES asks: what are our media, now? Sandboxing approaches at SAIC, students of a graduate seminar co-taught by Adelheid Mers and Shawn Decker took a cue from devised theater, in which a script is created by means of a collaborative and improvisatory process, with the resources at hand. MEDIA FUTURES is the result of an open-ended and ad-hoc mode of “devised curation,” a way of thinking, asking, and researching that enabled students to explore multiple roles in the process.

Participants are part of an emerging generation of “artistic digital natives”—artists who were born before the advent of the internet but whose creative practices developed parallel to the internet and digital revolutions. Developing, versioning, sharing and updating are modes of being in this continuum. As discrete authorship and objecthood dissolve, so do legal, ethical, spatial and even temporal boundaries. With this show, we seek to provoke a critical dialog with our peers and other publics about the possibilities and contradictions of cultural (co-) production today.

Artists:
Kayla Anderson
Abraham Avnisan
Brannon Dorsey
Guy Eytan
Yuehao Jiang
Jaehyun Kim
Mirong Kim
Kevin B. Lee
Zachary Lona
Leah Mackin
Matt Mehlan
Alyssa Moxley
Huong Ngo and Or Zubalsky
Patrick John Segura
Nhung Walsh
Kristina Caren Wilson
Sarp Kerem Yavuz
Tobias Zehntner
Yuan Zheng
Hyounsang Yoo

Curated by:
Abraham Avnisan
Leah Mackin
Xinqi Tao
Alyssa Larkin
Nhung Walsh
Ellen Katherine Brinich
Yunru Eva Huang
Angela Kim
Jaehyun Kim
Mirong Kim
Yekaterina Sergeevna Balueva
Yuehao Jiang
Matthew Douglas Mehlan

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Cuban Virtualities will also be on display in Sullivan Galleries. For more information visit: http://www.saic.edu/sullivangalleries

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