The fourth edition of "Nodes - Art + Tech Encounters" will take place on October 22 at 10 am (PT). In the center of the discussion will be Nokia Bell Labs’
Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) program and its long, successful history of fusing technology and the arts. The discussion will focus on the potentials of interdisciplinary collaborations and the benefits of incorporating art-thinking in the development of new technologies. We will talk about the genesis of E.A.T., dive into the 1967 collaboration of Bell Labs engineers and artists for the famous
9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering and explore the current and re-energized E.A.T. program.
“Nodes – Art + Tech Encounters” is a series of talks aiming to bring artists, technologists and researchers from the US and Europe together to engage in a dialogue about the potentials and the necessity of interdisciplinary collaborations between the two worlds of art and technology. By exploring that intersections further, we can learn about its rich and complex history of mutual influence, and gain insight into the nature of these intersections. Art, science and technology are highly intertwined and it is misleading to divide them. Therefore, The Grid is seeking to (re)establish a productive dialogue on this relationship and to highlight the potentials of utilizing artistic thinking in tech companies.
Moderator:
Emily Hlaváč Green Photography
Marnie Benney is an Independent Curator working at the intersection of contemporary art and technology. Over the last decade, she has produced 27 exhibitions in city centers, public spaces, galleries and festivals around the world including the New York Hall of Science, University of Cambridge London, the National Aquarium in Maryland, and The Nook Gallery in Los Angeles. Benney’s work investigates the societal, cultural and future implications of technology through the lens of contemporary art. In 2019 Benney launched
AIArtists.org, the world’s largest community of artists using Artificial Intelligence, where she serves as Curator and provides a platform for artists to explore the future implications of AI on society.
Panelists:
© Domhnaill Hernon
Domhnaill Hernon is an award-winning technology, innovation and creativity executive. Domhnaill received an undergrad in Aeronautical Engineering and a PhD in Aerodynamics from the University of Limerick and an executive MBA from Dublin City University, Ireland. He previously led R&D organizations and developed and executed strategies to overcome the “innovation valley of death”. He is Head of
Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T) which is a new initiative he founded to fuse art and engineering/science to develop solutions that humanize technology. Domhnaill’s work has been featured in Wired Magazine, Times Square, SXSW, Nasdaq, MWC, Ars Electronica, TEDx, Inspirefest to name just a few and he advises innovation and cultural programs globally.
© Seth Cluett
Seth Cluett is a composer and visual artist who creates work that explores everyday actions at extreme magnification, examines minutae by amplifying impossible tasks, and tries to understand the working of memory in forms that rethink the role of the senses in an increasingly technologized society. Ranging from photography and drawing to installation, concert music, and critical writing, his “subtle…seductive, immersive” (Artforum) sound work has been characterized as “rigorously focused and full of detail” (e/i) and “dramatic, powerful, and at one with nature” (The Wire). The recipient of grants from Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Fund and Meet the Composer, his work has been presented internationally at venues such as The Whitney Museum, MoMA/PS1, Moving Image Art Fair, CONTEXT Art Miami, GRM, and STEIM. Cluett is on the faculty of the Department of Music at Columbia University where he is the Assistant Director of the Computer Music Center & Sound Art Program, and since 2017, he has been Artist-in-Residence with Experiments in Art and Technology at Nokia Bell Labs. More information:
sethcluett.com
Photo: Eileen Baumgartner
Ashley Ferro-Murray is Curator of Theater and Dance at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is on the curatorial board of Body, Image, Movement Biennial in Madrid, Spain. Her curatorial practice focuses on expanding historical frames for performance and technology artworks while supporting artist-centered approaches to media. Publications include "Biological determinism - Evolutionary inertia, constraints" (forthcoming), “Transborder Immigrant Tool: Choreographic Resistance in the US-Mexican Borderlands,” and “Technologies of Performance: Machinic Staging and Corporeal Choreographies.” Ferro-Murray holds a PhD in performance studies with emphasis in new media from the University of California, Berkeley.
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