2020
Never odd or eveN (the TEI2020 Arts Track Exhibition)
Tin Sheds Gallery | 10-12 Feb 2020 (Mon-Wed) 11-5 | Private Launch Tues 11 Feb 6:30-10:30pm | Tix $65 USD Here
Curation | Karen Cochrane, Thecla Schiphorst and Deborah Turnbull Tillman
Never odd or eveN | TEI2020 Arts Exhibition
This year’s art exhibition for Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions is inspired by a hopeful co-mingling between art and technology with the site being our future bodies, our future selves. The idea of a palindrome, a phrase that is the same spelled forwards and backwards, nods to the idea of meeting in the middle. Transhumanism, cyborgs, engineering experiments, and designed interactive engagements have existed in past science fiction, film and literature, often pointing to a dystopic future. What we aim to present here is a collection of works by experimental artists and performers who congregate in the present but draw on ideas of the future through aesthetics of the past.
What emerges is a landscape encoded with two-way messages and filled with two-way journeys. Visitors tthe gallery can lose themselves in an infinity mirror, read chalk messages from a robot, transmit portraits of themselves, travel into paintings through virtual reality, transport their mindsets with scent, a pulsating heart or projected aura, rock in tandem with a hidden collaborator and dance with distributed and autonomous robotic roller skates.
Join us in this futuristic blast from the past, where the possibilities are endless and optimistic, but not quite polished. It is a future that is Never odd or eveN.
Exhibiting Artists:
Sojung Bahng, Sungeun Lee, Nina Rajcic & Jon McCormack
Bert Bongers
Yulia Brazauskayte
Louis Chew, Karen Cochrance, Luke Hespanhol & Lian Loke
Abhiruchi Chhikara, Florencia Diniello & Iskra Uscumlic
Ernest Edmonds, Damian Hills, Yi Ji & Xin Tong
Sang-won Leigh, Abhinandan Jain & Pattie Maes
Marius Hoggenmüller and Luke Hespanhol
George Poonkhin Khut
Wade Marynowsky, Sam Ferguson, Angelo Fraietta & Oliver Bown
Claudia Núñez-Pacheco & Jorge Olivares-Retamal
Nina Rajcic and Jon McCormack
Performing Artists:
Alon Ilsar & David Hughes
Caroline McMillan
Mary Mainsbridge