Shown as part of TECHNE @ BAM from Jan 16-19, Stephanie Dinkins has cultivated a virtual oasis populated with Black women who share stories of power and resilience. Multigenerational narratives collapse past, present, and future across interactive vignettes.
Read MoreShown as part of TECHNE @ BAM from Jan 12-15, Voices is a video essay weaved around the history of mediumship practices as a tool for female empowerment. Balancing between the poetic, the informative and the magical, this very personal work traces the artist’s own family history within this field, travels through the lives of channeling practitioners across centuries and presents the parallel evolution of new age spirituality and information technologies that frame the body as the ultimate communication device.
Read MoreShowing as part of UTR ‘25 from Jan 10-14, Runway by Christiana Kosiari features a woman maniacally jogging in place, a practice as much for her health as for self-torture. Μusic monitors the metronome of her steps. Inspired by the runway of international fashion, RUNWAY explores the array of behaviors and transformations of a woman striving for her era’s dominant beauty standards. The glamor of the catwalk morphs into a mannered and absurd march, as the performer walks, runs, stumbles, applies make-up, fixes her hair, stumbles on her heels, and only barely recovers her balance in a race against the terrifying corrosion of time.
Read MoreShowing as part of UTR ‘25 from Jan 10-14, A of one’s own is an XR performance and hysterical journey about making creative work within a confined space. Through voice loops, motion capture, and audio-visual fragments in projected scenes, the unnamed protagonist takes us through their adolescence as they navigate sickness, immigration, and a multilingual artistic career. Reality and fiction bleed together in this playful and raw exploration of the joys and horrors of being trapped in one’s own creative brain.
Read MoreShowing as part of TECHNE @ BAM from Jan 8-11, The Golden Key immerses visitors in the mythical fantasies of an artificially intelligent machine as it composes a never ending story. The work imagines a future world that has endured the severest impacts of climate change. "The Golden Key" is an artifact, a time capsule, a provocation that was left behind in the last days of the old world. It invites participants to reconstruct a lost mythological history by interacting with digital prompts displayed on the exhibition floor. As the narrative progresses, a flowing sequence of stories, visuals, and audio is created by combining visitors' input with an AI system built on tens of thousands of folktales from around the old world, a range of narrative fragments reflecting our most fundamental concerns.
Read MoreBAM, Onassis, and Under the Radar Present: TECHNE. A multi-part experiential program comprising four large-scale digital artworks. Created with generative AI, real-time interactive displays, and immersive sound, this program transports viewers into four distinctive new realms, brought to life by visionary creators. On show at: BAM Fisher, Fishman Space from Jan 4-19, 2025
Read MoreShowing as part of TECHNE @ BAM from Jan 4-7, The Vivid Unknown by John Fitzgerald and Godfrey Reggio, is a collective experience that uses AI and computer vision to reimagine Reggio’s iconic 1982 film, Koyaanisqatsi. Visitors will explore the primal nexus of humans, nature, and technology, dynamically participating in shaping the unfolding narrative. As part of this special program, Koyaanisqatsi will be screened in its original form at BAM Rose Cinemas on January 7.
Read MoreCoded Dreams from ONX members Marc Da Costa and Matthew Niederhauser is an innovative exhibition that encourages audiences to explore the frontiers of artificial intelligence and unlock the doors of their imagination through two unique and captivating installations: “Tulpamancer” and “The Golden Key."
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