Whether through motion capture, live processing, animation or other means of data visualization, the body is the referent and inspiration for many digital media artists working with interactive technologies. "Digital Incarnate: The Body, Identity, and Interactive Media," is an investigation into this confluence, gazing through multiple lenses to explore the body and identity as they are transformed and represented through technological evolution. As the body is digitally reflected and reborn, are we looking towards technology to experience ourselves in a redeemed form outside of human societal constructs? When technology captures kinetic energy, is our essence embodied in the pixilation, or is our “self” lost in the process? Through dynamic works by Luftwerk, OpenEnded Group, and Troika Ranch, as well as the Synchronous Objects web kiosk created by William Forsythe, Maria Palazzi, and Norah Zuniga Shaw, the exhibition brings forward exploratory ideas that push and pull our perceptions of the body and impulses to move beyond it into uncharted cyber territory.
A series of related programs, including gallery talks, discussions and workshops will be offered throughout the exhibition. For more information, visit www.colum.edu/deps.
"Digital Incarnate" is co-curated by Alycia Scott and Sara Slawnik and presented by Columbia College Chicago’s: Department of Exhibition and Performance Spaces, The Dance Center, the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media and the Interactive Arts and Media Department.
