Author Description

"Tech/Know/Future/ From Slang to Structure is a critical response to technological systems within art addressing the issues of identity, history and abstraction, placing the viewer at the intersection of the past, present and future. Eleven diverse cross-disciplinary artists will use their creative practices to establish new relationships among technology, knowledge and time through augmented reality, artificial intelligence, sound, video, textiles and works on paper. The exhibition is curated by Tom Leeser, Director of the Art and Technology Program and the Center for Integrated Media at CalArts, who will bring together a group of innovative artists including: Morehshin Allahyari, Salome Asega, Nancy Baker Cahill, Stephanie Dinkins, Carla Gannis, Taehee Kim, LoVid, Amelia Marzec, Olivia Mole, Sondra Perry, and Casey Reas. Tech/Know/Future is an examination of humanity's particular moment in time amidst a newfound era of social and political upheaval. Humanity stands at a crossroads between its past attachment to technology's promise and a precarious, vague future. The artists who comprise this exhibition are compelling and provocative: their work collectively maps future territories of uncommon knowledge, digitally reconstituted iconographies of the present, and short-circuited networks of the past. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated book featuring an interview by Director Megan C. Austin with curator Tom Leeser and essays by Andrew Culp, Professor of Media History and Theory, CalArts; Dan/Dani Bustillo, Los Angeles-based artist and writer; Charlotte Kent, Assistant Professor of Visual Culture at Montclair State University; Tom Leeser, CalArts; and Carlin Wing, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Scripps College"--