Modeled Behavior (part I)

February 28, 2018

I have been investigating virtual intimacy: To create a prototype of virtual intimacy, I needed to locate bodies in virtual networks and render them visible. I also had to take the networks themselves into account. I began with my social media network, asking my Facebook friends to physically gather and hug one another. I photographed … More Modeled Behavior (part I)

Ghost Bodies

November 3, 2017

Virtual reality has a cultural connection to the supernatural; if the virtual is immaterial, then the supernatural might thus be virtual. Ghosts and specters are tangible insofar as they move from an immaterial origin to reside in physical space. The crux of gothic drama is the paranormal’s visibility or tangibility in our space. While there, … More Ghost Bodies

Genealogies of the New Aesthetic

October 11, 2017

Christiane Paul and Malcolm Levy

Whether or not you believe in the theoretical and art-historical value of the concept of a New Aesthetic – and the related buzz surrounding the labels of post-digital, post-Internet, post-medium – their rapid spread throughout art networks testifies to a need for terminologies that capture a certain condition of cultural and artistic practice in the early 21st century … More Genealogies of the New Aesthetic

Put It On Your Face

October 4, 2017

I remember using a View-Master toy as a child. I can recall being in kindergarten and holding the red plastic viewer to my face, and looking at a forest. My memory is decidedly not of the illusionistic sense of depth achieved via stereoscopy. In fact my first association with these toys is their object-ness, not … More Put It On Your Face

2017-18 Viralnet Research Fellow – Tyler Calkin

September 8, 2017

Tyler Calkin is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. His work has been exhibited and performed in art and educational institutions around the world, including Cercle Blanc Gallery in Berlin, studio1.1 in London, Tsinghua University in Beijing, KUArt in Nepal, Tec de Monterrey in Mexico, Centre for the Living Arts in Mobile, AL, and … More 2017-18 Viralnet Research Fellow – Tyler Calkin