Despite things being what they are, IAWP has still managed to continue to grow and produce over the past semester. Below are some highlights of IAWP doings and happenings throughout fall 2020.听
听was invited to deliver a keynote performance at the Artificial Creativity conference in Malm枚, Sweden, on Nov. 19, 2020. During the performance, he premiered new iterations of the听FATAL ERROR: artificial creative intelligence听art project, originally slated for exhibition and presentation earlier this year at CHI 2020 (Honolulu) and WeRobot 2020 (Ottawa). He also performed another new work of his,听Planet Corona, at the Confinement, viralit茅 et formes de vie (Lockdown, Virality and Life Forms) conference in Paris on Nov. 27. All of these projects grow out of the collaborative, practice-based research investigations taking place inside the TECHNE Lab.
Following a very productive 2020 for the TECHNE Lab, the TECHNE crew (Amerika, Kim, Gallagher) are coming out of the 2021 box with their next IDMO (Imaginary Digital Media Object) in the just-released special issue of听Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus,听focused on "."
听submitted a course proposal for a class called The Body in Space to the Space Minor program, which was accepted and will be taught by her in the fall of 2021. De Koninck also completed her first-year review this past fall and is now preparing for her upcoming April residency in the B2 space by spending her Beverly Seares Graduate Student Grant on fabrics. In addition, she did a performance during the ATLAS Research Showcase where she wore a garment made of a textile she wove with dissolving threads.听
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听received a $25,000 donation from Google to support the Media Archaeology Lab. The MAL also initiated its听听for work in the lab that relates to the intersection of race and technology. Emerson also developed a new undergraduate course she鈥檚 proposing to the College of Arts and Sciences called听. In December, she published, 鈥�,鈥漚s part of Rhizome鈥檚 / The New Museum鈥檚 ongoing work to restore The Thing BBS. She also participated in the presentation of libi striegl鈥檚 short video,听Frequency,听which we aired for an event called Protected: Performing Media Archaeological Experiments that took place at the University of Luxembourg. Finally, Emerson gave a keynote presentation titled 鈥淐ommunity x (Pedagogy + Play) at the Media Archaeology Lab'' for the MetaCulture Media Festival in Moscow, Russia.听
听was featured in the听Daily Camera听for her outdoor exhibit,听Right on!, at Museum of Boulder. Her work responds to social crisis and systemic racism with 32 plaques. Eng is also running a听听fundraiser called Dare to Care food drive for public school students鈥撯�搃n which local artists decorate food collection crates鈥撯�搃n collaboration with Naropa's听听for brain-injured adults. She also听听and was awarded a Gerald C. Bean Scholarship, as well as Colorado Music Relief Funds. Finally, Eng has been invited by Leon Gallery for a solo exhibition this summer for her work听.
听was a virtual visiting artist at the Ruhr-Universit盲t in Bochum, Germany, and in August at John Cabot University in Rome. Her film about yellow mealworms,听Tenebrio molitor,听showed on Australia's听TV Science听channel through the end of the summer months and her new documentary,听Sacred Mountain,听premiered in early September in Mumbai at the Indian Cine Film Festival. The Kontejner Collective also highlighted Espelie's art in Zagreb, Croatia. Finally, Espelie curated a show,听,听at Union Hall in Denver that was open through Jan. 9, 2021.
听gave a presentation at the Artificial Creativity conference in Malmo, Sweden, on Nov. 19 and 20 entitled 鈥淒o GPT-2s Dream of Electric Poetry?" He was also selected for an Atlas B2 residency, to be held from Feb. 22 to March 5, 2021. In addition, Gallagher completed his first-year review!
听was part of the group show听The Archive to Come听at Telematic Media Arts in San Francisco.
Her solo exhibition,听Living Lab,听also opened in November at Clark College鈥檚听听in Vancouver, Washington. In addition to displaying projects online, she offered a workshop titled Feeling without Touching: An Archive of Feelosophic Artefacts from the Living Lab听and collaborated with virtual visitors to create intimate "feelosophic artefacts" that explore and reimagine how we language our emotions in digital spaces.
Kim's video,听Cricket World,听is included in the online, social VR, and in-gallery group exhibition听听at Telematic Media Arts. Finally, her book,听Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs,听has been reviewed on听.
PhD candidate Darija Medic听participated in a debate on 鈥渢he new normal鈥� during the literary festival听. She also participated in the听听workshop during the South Eastern European Dialogue on Internet Governance. Finally, she participated in Belgrade鈥檚听听via a panel on "Future Narratives," speaking from the position of the affiliation with the Media Archaeology Lab as a small intervention in narratives on innovation.
听book,听, was published by the University of Chicago Press.
Last but not least,听听presented a paper titled "Mapping Post-Reform Narratives: Hypertext Network as Literary Infrastructure" at the Youth Round Table as part of the Fifth-Annual Conference of Network Society, hosted by Institute of Network Society in China Academy of Fine Art in Hangzhou, China. The paper will eventually be translated and published in Chinese by INS.听