Sawyer Rose, Lauren, 2021. Wood, Chains, Gold And Silver Leaf, Cardboard 96x96x12in.
Diverse Community. Real Artists. Thoughtful Conversations.
Let’s unpack the relationship between Data and Art. In her ongoing series Carrying Stones Project, Sawyer Rose makes visible the invisible by giving life to data through art. Her sculptures tangibly illustrate important statistics about women’s unpaid labor, giving way to conversations around social norms, expectations, and inequalities in our society.
Along with artists, Dennis Delgado and Scott Kildall, we will discuss: How can we interact with data in a non-passive way? What can we learn through data? What messages do we consume or convey through how data is interpreted and represented? What happens when art and data collide?
This virtual event is free for all with an RSVP.
Featured Panelists
Scott Kildall has been working with art + technology + education for over 15 years. In 2017, he worked as an American Arts Incubator Artist, where he led a 1-month workshop in Bangkok to teach data-visualization and sculptural techniques to local Thai educators and students involving water quality in that city. Additionally, he has worked as a New Media Exhibit Developer (2012-13) at The Exploratorium in the Life Sciences Gallery. He has also taught coursework involving data-visualization and digital mapping at the University of San Francisco.
He has received fellowships, awards and residencies from organizations including the SETI Institute, ZERO1, Santa Fe Art Institute, Impakt Works, Autodesk, Recology San Francisco, Turbulence.org, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, The Kala Art Institute and The Banff Centre for the Arts.
His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the New York Hall of Science, Transmediale, the Venice Biennale, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the San Jose Museum of Art. He currently resides in San Francisco.
Dennis Delgado was born in the South Bronx, and received a BA in Film Studies from the University of Rochester as well as an MFA in sculpture from the City College of New York (CUNY). His work examines the forms through which ideologies of colonialism persist and re-inscribe themselves, revealing a historical presence in the current moment. He is interested in how technologies of vision reproduce the scopic regimes of slavery and neo-liberal governance. His work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, El Museo Del Barrio, and at the Cooper Union.
About Community Conversations
This regular discussion series is open to all and will feature the voices of our diverse community of artists, guest collaborators, and museum staff. We will unpack the questions and ideas present in our current exhibitions.
Community Conversations: From Data to Art
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With additional program support from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation
and SVCreates, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara.
