Art History From Home: Technology and Fantasy
Thurs, Apr 30, 2020
12 pm
Laurie Simmons (b. 1949), Walking Camera II (Jimmy the Camera), 1987. Gelatin silver print, Overall: 82 13/16 × 47 1/2in. (210.3 × 120.7cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 94.107 © Laurie Simmons
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This series of online talks by the Whitney’s Joan Tisch Teaching Fellows highlights works in the Museum's collection to illuminate critical topics in American art from 1900 to the present. During each thirty-minute session, participants are invited to comment and ask questions through a moderated chat.
In the twenty-first century, we find ourselves in increasingly media-saturated and mediated realities. This session explores how artists such as Cory Arcangel, Nam June Paik, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Laurie Simmons have addressed the changing nature of the self within these experiences. We will consider a range of artistic mediums—from photography to video installations to games—to explore technology’s role in both limiting and generating new kinds of agency for art-makers and viewers alike.
Xin Wang is a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum and a Ph.D. candidate in modern and contemporary art at The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. She is the curator of numerous exhibitions in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, her art criticism appears in a wide range of publications, and she continues to build a discursive archive of Asian futurisms in contemporary art practice on Tumblr.