ARTifact
ARTifact gallery
presents
Free and open to the public
May 1-June 15, 2012
Monday-Friday, 8:30am-4pm
Each quarter, ARTifact gallery presents a new exhibit featuring artwork that is conceptually linked to the current courses of the Culture, Art & Technology (CAT) program. The gallery functions as an integrated learning laboratory, transforming the working environment of the CAT offices into a hybrid space where contemporary art and the CAT curriculum convene.
This spring, faculty and students explore the ways in which we try to make and re-make our worlds through language, music, art, performance, and the activities of everyday life. Worldmaking showcases art that is in some way engaged with the making of new worlds, whether through a change in perspective, or through creating imaginary, extraterrestrial, or slightly altered physical spaces.
Together, students and artists address questions such as the following: Is it possible to make new worlds without being conscious of the processes? Are there certain resources or contexts that are more amenable to worldmaking? If the world is “given,” why and how do we try to make new worlds? Is the drive to make new worlds utterly foolish, over-ambitious, or is it a necessary, even crucial, element of being human?
Curated by Eliza Slavet, the exhibit features the work of Josh Aaron, Jamila Abdul-Sabur, Ela Boyd, Kate Clark, Matthew Hebert, Christopher Kardambikis, David Kim, Sam Kronick, and Joe Yorty.
