Category: Jamie Allen

Jamie Allen, #rocks (2014). Multi-channel sound installation. Installation view at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

ECONOMIC FAIRNESS IN THE DIGITAL ERA AND THE NEW AESTHETICS OF INTERNET ACTIVISM

This panel will discuss and reflect upon the new technological tools for intervention in the flows of capital and the different aesthetic strategies that are used to raise awareness of the question of economic fairness. The recent disclosures of tax evasion and corruption in the Panama Papers and the collusion of politician and high finance exacerbate further tension between the public perceptions of fairness and the practices of the banking industry, a tension that has been rising ever since the financial meltdown of September 2008. In response to the opacity of the flows of money and the concentration of the control of the monetary system in the hands of a few banks and government, activists and hackers have developed a mixture of strategies of uncovering through leaks, hacks, and by building alterative structures of circulation like the block chain and the wiki.

Chair: Stacy Miller, Parsons School of Design, The New School

Speakers:
Jamie Allen, Artist/Researcher
Matthia Tarasiewiez, Curator, Researcher, and Technology Theorist
Georgios Papadopoulos, Economist

Time: 02/15/2017: 10:30AM–12:00PM
Location: Gibson Suite, 2nd Floor (Media Lounge)

This Media Lounge program is free and open thanks to the support of the NEA and SAC.

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Invisible Threads: Technology and its Discontents, NYUAD Art Gallery

Artists: Ai Weiwei, Jamie Allen, Aram Bartholl, Taysir Batniji, Wafaa Bilal, Liu Bolin, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Michael Joaquin Grey, Monira Al Qadiri, Evan Roth, Phillip Stearns, Siebren Versteeg, Addie Wagenknecht, Kenny Wong.

On view September 22 – December 31, 2016

This exhibition explores the tensions that emerge in our everyday relationships with technology, looking at such issues as isolation vs. connectedness, and privacy vs. social media.

The information age has given us modes and means of communication unrivaled in history, ranging from smartphones and social media to electronic financial and other transactions. Yet these same tools also generate anxiety about a user’s exposure via these modes, whether to risk of hackers or from technology’s effect on our environment.

Invisible Threads will present a nuanced discussion of a global topic, framed by the region’s complex relationship to the benefits and pitfalls that accompany technological advances. The artworks expose these institutional and aesthetic frameworks of control, pulling back the curtain on a part of our lives that we have come to take for granted. The curators hope to generate dialog and reflection around our use of these everyday tools.

Jamie Allen‘s The Lie Machine project is a critical, media archaeological recreation of a 1970’s vintage lie detection technical object, a Voice Stress Analysis machine.

Notably, Invisible Threads inaugurates one of NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery’s unique program strategies: inviting scholars and specialists from across the academic spectrum to guest-curate a major exhibition. Invisible Threads is co-curated by Professor Scott Fitzgerald, Program Head of Interactive Media at NYU Abu Dhabi, with Bana Kattan, a Curator at the NYUAD Art Gallery.

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We are delighted to announce that ECCENTRIC Art & Research now represents the work of Jamie Allen.

Jamie Allen is a Canada-born artist, researcher, designer and teacher, interested in what technologies teach us about who we are as individuals, cultures and societies. He has been an electronics engineer, a polymer chemist and an exhibit maker with the American Museum of Natural History. He lectures, publishes and exhibits projects worldwide. His work has been exhibited at Kunsthal Aarhus and Nicholaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin for the 2014 transmediale afterglow; at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin for Olafur Eliasson’s Festival of Future Nows; and at Eastern Bloc Montreal, among many others. He is currently Senior Researcher at Critical Media Lab Basel.

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