{"id":15393,"date":"2023-11-16T04:02:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T03:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/?p=15393"},"modified":"2023-11-20T13:42:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T12:42:05","slug":"difference-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/difference-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"DIFFERENCE MACHINES: TECHNOLOGY AND IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY ART"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTECHNOLOGY AND IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY ART<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nWrightwood 359 (Chicago, IL) Oct 13 – December 16, 2023<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

How does technology shape our identities and what is the relation between the two? How do the tools we use shape the way we see ourselves? This question is addressed by Difference Engines, a touring exhibition co-curated by Tina Rivers Ryan, PhD, Curator, Buffalo AKG Art Museum and Paul Vanouse, Professor, University of Buffalo. Difference Engines features 17 contemporary artists that engage how technology can challenge systemic forms of oppression, engage communities, and resist prejudice.<\/p>\n

In John Perry Barlow\u2019s 1998 \u201cA\u00a0Declaration\u00a0of the\u00a0Independence\u00a0of\u00a0Cyberspace,\u201d he declared the online realm to be free of the ills of the material world, its oppressions and stigmas; race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and dis\/ability would become irrelevant, as it was deemed a world of pure mind. Unfortunately, the opposite appears to be true, as online and offline have become one.\u00a0 When we represent our lives, names, selfies and communites on social media, as well as adding hashtags #metoo and #blacklivesmatter, physical and digital identities become the same.<\/p>\n

As Rivers-Ryan and Vanouse mention, the prototypical computational device imagined by Babbage in the 1800\u2019s was termed a \u201cDifference Engine,\u201d for the discrimination between numerical values. Now, society is filled with \u201cDifference Machines,\u201d processes and algorithms designed to discriminate the differences between people. Much like Harun Farocki\u2019s analysis of the photographic analysis in the early 20th<\/sup> century to encode biases against ethnicities, criminals, and so on, contemporary devices and algorithms prove much more effective.<\/p>\n

The exhibition includes projects spanning the last three decades, from software-based and internet art to animated videos, bioart experiments, digital games, and 3D-printed sculptures.\u00a0The 20 works on view in\u00a0Difference Machines<\/em>\u00a0exemplify different strategies for adapting technology to artmaking. Artists exhibiting in Difference Machines are: \u00a0Morehshin Allahyari, Zach Blas, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, A.M. Darke, Stephanie Dinkins, Hasan Elahi, Sean Fader, Rian Ciela Hammond, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Joiri Minaya, Mongrel, Mendi + Keith Obadike, Sondra Perry, Keith Piper, Skawennati, Saya Woolfalk, and Lior Zalmanson.<\/p>\n

Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art<\/em>\u00a0is organized by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.) \u00a0Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art<\/em>\u00a0earned the 2022 Curatorial Award for Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC), making it the first major survey of art and technology to be acknowledged by the AAMC.<\/p>\n

This exhibition is on display at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago, Illinois from Oct 13 – December 16, 2023, and was exhibited at Albright-Knox Northland (Buffalo, NY,) Beall Center for the Arts (Irvine, CA,) and Gray Area (San Francisco, CA)<\/p>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”15396″ full_width=”1″ opacity=”100″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Difference Engines TECHNOLOGY AND IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY ART Wrightwood 359 (Chicago, IL) Oct 13 – December 16, 2023 How does technology shape our identities and what is the relation between the two? How do the tools we use shape the way we see ourselves? This question is addressed by Difference Engines, a…<\/p>\n

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