The works assembled in Disruptive Generation question the role of technology in constructing and mediating our experience of reality, addressing technology’s capacity to undermine or transcend its structural frame. Each project highlights the relationship between archetype and prototype, disrupting the cultural and computational systems that circumscribe lived experience in order to render space for alternative futures. *Disruptive Generation* showcases work by five recent graduates of the Art & Technology Studies department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC): Ziv Ze’ev Cohen, GREYMAR (Igraine Grey + Jonatan Martinez), Changyeob (C.Y.) Ok, Santiago X, and Li Yao.
Unlike other disciplines that use technology at the service of traditional forms, faculty and students in Art and Technology Studies (ATS) employ technology itself as their medium. The first of its type in the United States, ATS was established in 1969 when SAIC introduced courses in Kinetics and Generative Systems. Since its inception, the program has continually pioneered the use of emerging technologies in contemporary art, developing new models of artistic practice and integrating these models into the curriculum of one of the world’s most influential art and design schools. Today ATS offers courses in a wide range of disciplines including Programming, Light, Electronics & Kinetics, Audio, Virtual & Augmented Reality, Games, Bio Art, and History & Theory.
Asteroids (Mathematical Monsters)
Ziv Ze’ev Cohen (IL)
Asteroids features retrieved videos made by NASA — visual representations of radar signal bouncing back from deep space
Bunker
Li Yao (CN)
By simulating sceneries from fiction and reality, it offers an opportunity to examine the willful re-enactment of history in which we find ourselves.
Machine 010 "Long Memory"
Ziv Ze’ev Cohen (IL)
Long Memory transforms eight external hard drives salvaged from old computers into a kinetic and auditory experience.
Micros
IGREY (Igraine Grey) (US)
MICROS is an installation of layered transparencies consisting of a Cartesian topology and an enlarged sliver of an image.
RED
GREYMAR: Igraine Grey (VE), Jonatan Martinez (MX)
RED is a virtual architecture that forges monumentality out of pattern distortion, building a language out of moiré, the digital "watered appearance".
The One that Shatters in the Air
Changyeob (C.Y.) Ok (KR)
In this work, light changes are triggered by a muon detector which invites the viewers into a spiritual experience of deciphering a secret message from outer space.
The Return (o:lači okhiča)
Santiago X
Dematerialized embrace of self-constructed constraints, Humanity displaced as we lose our sense of place...
Credits:
Art & Technology Studies department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Featured Artists:
Ziv Ze’ev Cohen, GREYMAR (Igraine Grey + Jonatan Martinez), Changyeob (C.Y.) Ok, Santiago X, Li Yao
Special Thanks:
Eduardo Kac, Professor & Chair of Art & Technology Studies, SAIC, Anna Yu, Assistant Director of Art & Technology Facilities, SAIC, Arthur Kolat, Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions, SAIC, Christl Baur, Producer Exhibitions, Ars Electronica, Violeta Gil Martínez, Project Manager Campus Exhibitions, Ars Electronica
