Reception: Wed. August 30th, 5-7 pm
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Join us for the Fall 2023 Art Practice Welcome Event!
Wednesday, August 30, 12-1pm
Platform Artspace, outdoor courtyard, Bauer Wurster Hall
All students, staff, and faculty are invited to attend the beginning-of-semester gathering to kick of the new year! Come meet your fellow Art Practice majors, as well as intended majors, new MFA students, and faculty.
An Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium lecture co-sponsored by the English Department and the Department of Art Practice
with Jen Liu, Artist
Moderated by Xiaowei R. Wang
Accompanied by Mia J. Chong, Dancer
In conversation with Xiaowei Wang, Jen Liu will talk about her multifaceted GHOST_WORLD project, which proposes an intrinsically paradoxical task: to represent electronics workers through the digital imaging technologies that are designed to erase them, bridging the distance between labor and consumer through location-based AR. Wang and Liu will also address some of the overlapping themes in their respective works: the domination of the biobody through personal tech, the invisibilized logistics of racial technocapitalism, and the complex histories of community atomization and exploitation through automation.
Meanwhile, Mia J. Chong, a San Francisco-based contemporary dancer, will also be on stage to embody and interpret the conversation as it evolves. One of the performers in the choreographic portion of GHOST_WORLD, Chong will be working with Liu on an interpretive vocabulary for semi-automated labor and the fragmented body in the digitized technoverse.
GHOST_WORLD, will be presented in the Bay Area in Spring 2024, with a solo exhibition at / (slash) and choreographic performances for 4 dancers at The Lab.
