LIFELIKE
LIFELIKE, a group exhibition curated by writer, curator and artist Katie Peyton Hofstadter, explores the work of ten artists logging biological, genetic, and behavioral information on a digital ledger, to invoke a conversation about body sovereignty in our technopresent. The exhibition also features an interactive and VR experience, presented by EPOCH, and a performance schedule spanning the Cal Poly University Gallery, the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA) and the Center for Expressive Technologies (CET).
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LIFELIKE Curated by Katie Peyton Hofstadter
Opening Reception October 12, 5:30-7:30pm University Art Gallery (Dexter 34) Curator’s talk at 6pm Performance by Edgar Fabián Frías at 6:30pm
Featuring works by LAUREN LEE MCCARTHY · (NI)COLE WILSON · OONA x LORI BALDWIN · PUSSY RIOT · SAMMIE VEELER x MISTRESS FIX SPUTNIKO! · WHITE MALE ARTIST AKA CASSILS · XIN LIU
LIFELIKE interactive + VR exhibition presented by EPOCH CASSILS · LANS KING · LAUREN LEE MCCARTHY NICOLE WILSON · PUSSY RIOT · SPUTNIKO! · XIN LIU
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The artists in this exhibition are interested in what it will mean, and how it will feel, to have a body in a future where wetware (living tissue) serves as a foundation for technology, where medical implants monitor not only our hearts and minds, but also our experiences and relationships; and where decisions are made by programs even their creators do not fully understand. Today, phones harvest information about our bodies and behaviors by default. How does it feel to seek digital connection when our every swipe, movement, and private message is under surveillance?
Using their own bodies, these artists stress-test the present and near-future, probing how information flows between our biological and virtual identities, and expanding our vocabulary through imaginative scenarios. By bringing a creative lens to the conversation, they invite the possibility that the lab rats might now take back control.
This exhibition expands the ideas put forth in Hofstadter’s text, Bodies on the Blockchain (2022).