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ATC Lecture — Kelani Nichole's "The Networked Avant-garde"

with Kelani Nichole Director, The Current; Founder, TRANSFER In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series The networked culture that emerged at the end of the 20th century introduced a generation of artists who employ open, distributed, virtualized, and highly collaborative techniques. Their studios are built on commercial software, CGI aesthetics, online public exhibition, and peer-to-peer sharing and critique. They simultaneously embrace and subvert technology as a means of interrogation, expressing humanist, non-binary, and decolonialized futures. In building a ‘Simulism’ movement, they reckon with Silicon Valley, the platforming and globalization of culture, global climate change, and technologies of power like artificial intelligence and virtual reality. But the networked avante-garde face unique challenges – technology changes quickly and constantly; conservation and preservation practices are still being developed; critics and scholars have overlooked decades of pioneering work; collectors have been slow, so far, to acquire this type of work. Despite these challenges, this avant-garde stands to significantly change what making and distributing art means in the century ahead. New networks of support have emerged in the form of artist-curated projects, experimental exhibitions, commissions, and residencies. Leading institutions, like The Whitney Museum of American Art and experimental museum models like The Current are developing new models of support for challenging variable media art. About Kelani Nichole Kelani Nichole is a design strategist and exhibition maker based in NYC. She consults for agile product teams and startups, and founded TRANSFER, an experimental exhibition space in Brooklyn, NY. Nichole specializes in challenging variable media artworks – she designs exhibitions in the home, gallery and art market contexts. In 2018 Nichole began serving as Director of The Current, a cooperative collection of contemporary media art that examines technology's impact on the human condition. About the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Founded in 1997, the ATC series is an internationally respected forum for creative ideas. The ATC series, free of charge and open to the public, is coordinated by the Berkeley Center for New Media and has presented over 170 leading artists, writers, and critical thinkers who question assumptions and push boundaries at the forefront of art, technology, and culture including: Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Sophie Calle, Bruno Latour, Maya Lin, Doug Aitken, Pierre Huyghe, Miranda July, Billy Kluver, David Byrne, Gary Hill, and Charles Ray. Fall 2018 – Spring 2019: Fact & Fiction What do we make now of this classic opposition? For centuries, artists and critics have placed pressure on both of these terms, often asking us to question how to separate truth from lies, the real from the artificial, and fact from fiction. Addressing a range of political contexts and utilizing an array of creative forms, speakers in this series offer new approaches to these age-old questions. The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium is presented in conjunction with Arts + Design Mondays at BAMPFA. Monday Evenings, 6:30-8:00pm Osher Theater, BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/visit/... Seating free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted