EventsThe New Social Environment#759

Art + Tech: I'll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen

Featuring Alison Hearst, Alice Bucknell, Kahlil Robert Irving, Hasan Elahi, and Charlotte Kent, with Courtney Bush

Friday, March 3, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Curator Alison Hearst and artists Alice Bucknell, Kahlil Robert Irving, and Hasan Elahi join Rail Editor-at-Large Charlotte Kent for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Courtney Bush.

Alison Hearst

A photo of Alison Hearst on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Alison Hearst is Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. She is curator of the museum’s FOCUS exhibition series and has presented solo exhibitions of artists including Fred Tomaselli, Mario García Torres, Joyce Pensato, Jill Magid, Martine Gutierrez, Thomas Demand, Lorna Simpson, Analia Saban, Jamal Cyrus, and Stanley Whitney, amongst others. She organized the twenty-year survey, Robyn O’Neil: WE, THE MASSES, which opened in fall 2019. Hearst was also the curator of Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings, which traveled nationally. Hearst served as assistant curator of the major exhibitions Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s and México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990.

Alice Bucknell

A photo of Alice Bucknell on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Alice Bucknell is an artist, writer, and curator based in London and Los Angeles. Working primarily with game engines and speculative fiction strategies, her current work explores interconnections of architecture, ecology, magic, and non-human and machine intelligence. In 2021, she established New Mystics, an editorial platform merging magic and technology. She has exhibited internationally, including at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Bloomberg New Contemporaries, and Het Nieuwe Instituut. Her writing appears regularly in publications including ArtReview and Flash Art. She’s currently an Associate Lecturer in MA Narrative Environments at Central Saint Martins in London. In 2023, she will be in residence at transmediale in Berlin and a Supercollider SciArt fellow in LA.

Kahlil Robert Irving

A photo of Kahlil Robert Irving on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Kahlil Robert Irving is an artist currently based in the USA. He attended the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art, Washington University, in St. Louis (MFA Fellow, 2017) and the Kansas City Art Institute (BFA, Art History and Ceramics, 2015). In December 2021 Irving opened his first museum solo exhibition Projects: Kahlil Robert Irving at the Museum of Modern Art. Irving recently participated in Social Works II at Gagosian Gallery in London. He has also participated in the Singapore Biennale, Singapore; Soft Water Hard Stone; The New Museum Triennial; and other exhibitions. Among other recognitions, he was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award in 2019 and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 2020.

Hasan Elahi

A photo of Hasan Elahi on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Hasan Elahi is an artist examining issues of surveillance, citizenship, migration, transport, and the challenges of borders and frontiers. His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions at venues such as SITE Santa Fe, Centre Georges Pompidou, the Sundance Film Festival, and elsewhere. His work is frequently in the media and has been covered by The New York Times, Forbes, Wired, among others. His recent awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Alpert/MacDowell Fellowship, grants from Creative Capital, Art Matters Foundation, the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, and he is a recipient of a Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award. In 2022, he was appointed dean of the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

Charlotte Kent

A photo of Charlotte Kent on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Associate professor of visual culture at Montclair State University Charlotte Kent, PhD, is an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Railand a contributor to assorted books on art and technology, including as co-editor of Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art (Intellect Books, 2024), co-author of Midnight Moment: A Decade of Artists in Times Square (Monacelli Press, 2024), and editor of Generation to Generation (Vetro, 2026). She is the recipient of grants from NEH and Google Art + Machine Intelligence, with a forthcoming book on contemporary art and technoabsurdity. She is a member of the College Art Association’s Committee on Intellectual Property.

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

Dao Strom

A photo of Dao Strom on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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