gallery@calit2 Presents: Drones at Home |
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DESCRIPTION/ABSTRACT: \"Drones at Home\" explores the strange allure of drones and the push for their domestication -- by governments, corporations, and everyday citizens. \"Home\" is understood at multiple scales -- at the level of the individual, backyard, community, border region, and homeland. The specificity of the San Diego region is foregrounded, yet also positioned as symptomatic of a larger condition. Departing from the specificity of the drone form, the project also deploys the \"unmanned\" system as a figure for a larger condition -- ecologies where the status of the human is called into question, distributed and embedded in a larger field of shared intelligence. Co-curated by Sheldon Brown, Jordan Crandall, and Ricardo Dominguez, this exhibit will feature the work of Alex Rivera, Trevor Paglen, and Periscope Project. Opening reception: 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 7 SPEAKER BIO: Alex Rivera is a New York based digital media artist and filmmaker. His first feature film, SLEEP DEALER premiered at Sundance 2008, and won two awards, including the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Rivera is a Sundance Fellow and a Rockefeller Fellow. His work, which addresses concerns of the Latino community through a language of humor, satire, and metaphor, has also been screened at The Berlin International Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, The Guggenheim Museum, PBS, Telluride, and other international venues. Trevor Paglen’s work deliberately blurs lines between science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us. Paglen’s visual work has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Tate Modern, London; The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; the 2008 Taipei Biennial; the Istanbul Biennial 2009, and numerous other solo and group exhibitions. The Periscope Project is a uniquely situated cooperative studio, exhibition, and educational space committed to the nexus of art, architecture, and regional urban issues. James Enos is an artist, architect and researcher currently serving as an Undergraduate Thesis educator at the New School of Architecture & Design. James holds degrees in technology, architecture, and the arts from Purdue Univeristy (B.S.), NSAD (M.Arch), and the University of Califronia, San Diego (MFA). Chuck Miller is an artist, educator and organizer at the Periscope Project. He is currently a guest critic and juror for the fifth year thesis sequence, and teaches a special studio on cinematic media at New School of Architecture & Design in San Diego. Chuck received his BFA from Maryland Institute of Art in 2004, and his MFA from University of California, San Diego, in 2010. |