Tech/Know/Future: From Slang to Structure

November 14, 2021

Tech/Know/Future/ From Slang to Structure is a critical response to technological systems within art addressing the issues of identity, history and abstraction, placing the viewer at the intersection of the past, present and future. Eleven diverse cross-disciplinary artists will use their creative practices to establish new relationships among technology, knowledge and time through augmented reality, artificial … More Tech/Know/Future: From Slang to Structure

Now|Swerve

February 5, 2021

viralnet-v4.net’s three-part series of conversations with artists, writers and academics explores what we call “the swerve of 2020” in relation to the present––the long now… and the post-future that awaits us. … More Now|Swerve

PDF-OBJECTS and Cassandra

September 24, 2019

Kandis Williams is an artist, writer, editor, and publisher living and working in Los Angeles and Berlin. She received her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art, New York and has had recent solo shows in New York, Los Angeles, Baltimore and Vienna. She has an active curatorial and writing practice, and runs CASSANDRA Press with artist Taylor Doran. Her work often explores contemporary critical theory including, but not limited to, racial-nationalism, authority and eroticism. She is also a visiting faculty member at CalArts. Kandis is represented by Night Gallery in Los Angeles. … More PDF-OBJECTS and Cassandra

Green My Favela: A Brief Conversation Regarding Divergence

August 22, 2019

Lea Rekow and Tom Leeser

Even as nations converge on a purely technical and superficial level there has been an ever-greater divergence between the people who have the means and ability to devise these connective technologies and profit from them and those who have been seduced to use them. Never before has there been such a wide gap of understanding between the producers, owners and users of technology.
—Chandran Nair, Founder of the Global Institute For Tomorrow … More Green My Favela: A Brief Conversation Regarding Divergence

An Interview with Tom Leeser by Montez Radio

August 15, 2019

Montez Radio is “an experiment in radio broadcasting which plays in the boundaries of conversation, performance, distribution, and access through the lens of contemporary art.” In this interview, Montez Radio’s A.M. Bang talks with viralnet-v4.net‘s Tom Leeser  during the 2019 Printed Matter’s Los Angeles Art Book Fair at MoCA.   The conversation covers his recent project, “Heard in … More An Interview with Tom Leeser by Montez Radio

Project Scream: Heard in LA

March 10, 2019

Project Scream is the Center for Integrated Media and viralnet-v4.net’s third curatorial sound project. This project follows our past two sound initiatives: the Lament Project and Imagining Tellus # 28: Heard in LA. Curators Carmina Escobar, Fy, and Tom Leeser invited a variety of performance, electronic, acoustic, noise, text and visual artists to contemplate the meaning of the word … More Project Scream: Heard in LA

Feminist Conversations: Reaching Back Looking Forward

January 10, 2019

The exhibition, “Feminist Conversations: Reaching Back Looking Forward,” is part of the CalArts Library’s ​Curating the Institute Archives Project,​ a student-led curation project of the Special Collections and Institute Archives Reading Room and the Library’s Quiet Study Room with materials from the Institute Archives… … More Feminist Conversations: Reaching Back Looking Forward

Project Scream: Heard in LA

December 3, 2018

Project Scream is The Center for Integrated Media and viralnet-v4.net’s sound project for 2018-19, curated by Carmina Escobar, Fy, and Tom Leeser. A variety of performance, electronic, acoustic, noise, text, and visual artists have been invited to contemplate the meaning of the word scream and to respond by creating a sonic or written interpretation that is derived from their own personal artistic practice. … More Project Scream: Heard in LA