Art Basel Miami Beach 2021, December 4

Immersive Installations? Digital Experiences in the Exhibition

false

Conversations | Immersive Installations? Digital Experiences in the Exhibition Developments in digital technology have seen exhibition spaces welcoming increasingly large-scale, interactive and immersive installations. Beyond the initial spectacle in space, what strategies are artists using to transport viewers? From the perspectives of artists or the newly established Superblue, Miami, this panel considers what such installations reveal about technology’s growing influence on reality. Can these works also raise awareness around the politics of algorithms, digital access and technology’s impact on ecology? Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, Co-Founder and CEO, Superblue Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Artist, Montreal Felice Grodin, Artist, Miami Moderator: Brian Droitcour, Editor-in-Chief, Outland Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Superblue, overseeing the long-term vision and development of the company and its collaborations with artists. In addition to spearheading the strategy and planning for new Superblue sites and partnerships, she directs the curation of Superblue experiential art centers, external projects, and commissions. Dent-Brocklehurst is globally recognized for identifying the artistic trends of the future, having launched major new initiatives for some of the leading organizations across the artworld. She launched the first branch of Pace Gallery in London in 2010. She served as the President of Pace London from 2012 to 2017, before joining Futurecity. Previously, Dent-Brocklehurst worked closely with Dasha Zhukova to oversee the founding of The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow in 2008.Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (born 1967) is a Mexican-Canadian artist who works with ideas from architecture, technology and performance. In 2007, he was the first artist to represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale. In the past few years, Lozano-Hemmer was the subject of 9 solo exhibitions worldwide, including a major show at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, the inaugural exhibition at the AmorePacific Museum in Seoul, and a mid-career retrospective co-produced by the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal and SFMOMA. Collections holding his work include MoMA in New York, Tate in London, CIFO in Miami and MUAC in Mexico. In 2019 his interactive installation “Border Tuner” connected people across the US-Mexico border using bridges of light controlled by the voices of participants. His ongoing Covid-19 Memorial is currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum in New York.Felice Grodin is a visual artist and cultural agent. Her work combines the real and the virtual through experimental and transdisciplinary projects that reframe the familiar and confront the uncanny. An artist with a background in architecture, her exhibition Felice Grodin: Invasive Species (2018-present) at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), became the first (AR) augmented reality-only contemporary art show in the United States. The exhibition consisted of a year of research, infrastructure building, digital creation, and collaboration. She has continued partnering with PAMM in the export of recent AR projects for: UNTITLED Art Fair, The Deering Estate, and Miami International Airport.Brian Droitcour is a critic, editor, and curator. He has contributed to publications including 4columns, Artforum, and Rhizome, and catalogues for exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, the New Museum, and the Art Gallery of Ontario, among others. Until recently he worked at Art in America magazine, where among other things he organized special issues on topics including the digitized museum, generative art, and immersive art. He is now the editor in chief of Outland, a new online magazine about digital art and NFTs. The Art Basel Miami Beach 2021 Conversations program is curated by Art Basel and Edward Winkleman, author and private dealer.