Join us for our first ART TALK of 2020!
SATURDAY JANUARY 25th 1pm in the Listening Room
Donations welcome
(pay what you can)
“Technology makes our lives easier” is so common a misconception it’s become slapstick—today we find ourselves ever accelerating and complicating our lives with technologies out of sync with any kind of biological, ecological, or social rhythm. However, technologies can also be used against themselves. The premise of this talk stems from a simple thought: the car is a technology but so is the speed bump. In what ways can we intentionally slow or even sabotage technology, especially in relation to distribution systems in art? We will look at several examples from visual art, music and literature to see how intentional means of delivery itself can create added meaning in an artwork. - Ben DuVall
BIO
Ben DuVall is an artist and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. His work researches history, technology and language, alternately taking the form of drawings, websites, exhibitions, texts, or sculptural objects. DuVall’s work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums internationally, including 50/50 Gallery; Sunview Luncheonette; Taylor University Metcalf Gallery; the CSULB Art Museum; UMOCA, Salt Lake City; Skylab Gallery and the Croatian Treasury and Mint. He has been selected for several artist residencies, including Otis College's 2017 summer residency, MASS MoCA's 2017 Studio residency and Chashama’s 2018 chaNorth Artist Residency. As a member of the exhibition-making collective Darling Green, he recently curated the exhibition Double Negative, at ChaShaMa 320 W 23rd St.
DuVall is the author of New Modernism(s), a reformulation of Learning From Las Vegas for the digital age, which had been included in several undergraduate and graduate art and design curriculums, and has contributed essays to publications for the Queens Museum, Formist Editions, Amalgam Journal and Ugly Duckling Presse. He has taught at the New School and Barnard College.
