Thursday, September 26, 2024
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Lipsey Auditorium, Knox Building
On Thursday, September 26, 2024, a conversation between artists Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Casey Reas, and Laura Splan and curator Tina Rivers Ryan took place in the Lipsey Auditorium to celebrate the opening of "Electric Op." The artists discussed their digitally-generated works on view—which include a framed print on paper, real-time animation on a flatscreen, and a hanging textile—in the context of the relationship between abstract art, electronic technologies, and vision.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a media artist who develops platforms for public participation in urban, digital, and performative spaces. He was featured in the special Albright-Knox Northland exhibition Difference Machines and has had major solo exhibitions at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico (2020); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2019); and the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Canada (2019).
Casey Reas is a professor at UCLA’s Design Media Arts program and a computational artist whose works are in collections including MoMA, the Centre Georges Pompidou, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 2021 he founded Feral File, an online gallery for editioned digital art, which hosted the Buffalo AKG's Peer to Peer, an online exhibition and fundraiser. He is also renowned as the co-developer of Processing, a widely used programming language for creating visual art.
Laura Splan is an American artist working at the intersections of science, technology, and culture. Her research-based studio practice and interdisciplinary collaborations culminate in multimedia artworks, exhibitions, and events. Through embodied encounters that leverage sensations of touch, light, and sound, Splan’s work engages audiences with complexity through curiosity, wonder, and play. Splan’s internationally recognized artworks and exhibitions have been presented at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Brooklyn Museum (NYC), Musea Brugge (Bruges), Museum of Arts & Design (NYC), among others and is represented in the collections of Thoma Art Foundation and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
