SALON:
Intuition & Technology
Date: April 18, 2019
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: New Inc, 231 Bowery Floor 2
In partnership with NEW INC, Hyphen Hub organized the salon Intuition and Technology with Barbara London and Jackob Steensen. The salon was moderated by the founder director of Hyphen Hub, Asher Remy-Toledo.
About the guest curator
Barbara London is a curator, writer, and professor who founded the video exhibition and collection programs at the Museum of Modern Art, where she worked between 1973 and 2013. Currently she is organizing the exhibition "Seeing Sound" which Independent Curators International (ICI) will begin touring in late 2019. Her forthcoming book, Video/Art: The First Fifty Years will be published by Phaidon in January 2020.
About the artist
Jakob Steensen, a former NEW INC member, uses virtual reality installations that are created with computer game software to take viewers into a world where imagination, technology and ecology interwine. To make his work, he collaborates with scientist and artists from different fields, most recently with composer Michael Riesman from the Philip Glass Ensemble.
About the founder director
Asher Remy-Toledo is a Colombian-American producer of art and cultural events. Based in New York, he directs Hyphen Hub, a non-profit organization that discovers, promotes, and presents new live works and exhibitions by artists that integrate art and technology.