Exhibition Arti et Amicitae 1—26 FEB 2017 The Noise of Being exhibition speculates on the strange and anxious state of being human. Works by five international artists — Joey Holder, Justin Bennett, Kate Cooper, Pinar Yoldas and Zach Blas — function as portals into parallel realities, where the audience is invited to decipher weird histories and eerie futures, defy systems of power and control through queerness, explore synthetic alien biologies, take refuge within the hyperreal, and imagine other possible species and impossible environments. KATE COOPER We Need Sanctuary Can CG images create sheltered digital spaces, where images of bodies exist beyond our grasp, creating new relationships for physical bodies and networks they might occupy? Kate Cooper (UK) lives and works in London and Amsterdam. She is co-founder of Auto Italia, the Londonbased, artist-led initiative. JOEY HOLDER Ophiux Against the backdrop of the emergent field of computational biology and the Google Genomics project, Joey Holder invented Ophiux, a speculative pharmaceutical company. In Ophiux, she imagines use of genetic sequencing equipment and biological machines to collect sample data from humans and other organisms. Joey Holder (UK) graduated from Kingston University in 2001 and completed an MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2010. Working with scientific and technical experts she makes immersive, multimedia installations.
The Noise of Being
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