TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 – 8:00 PM
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
CYCLES AND VOIDS, a short lecture on the computational value of zero as it applies to art-making and communication, is followed by a screening of Evan Meaney’s recent work /THE_CEIBAS_CYCLE.
“While our bodies decay, while our data erodes, while our attempts to stem this tide ultimately fail, no-matter how redundant or healthy; we will find ourselves together again. All together. Beneath the shade of the trees. Finally ready to address that horizon.”
The Mayans believed the ceibas trees to be points of connection, setting up protocols to connect this world to the next. This series contains variations on that theme, perhaps even instructions; finding the echoing liminality of the tree in each new, failing, interface and allowing for a personal recognition by archival proxy.
Evan Meaney is an assistant professor of new media and gaming at the University of South Carolina. His work concerns ghosts, glitches, and the computationally undead. He has been an artist in residence at the Wexner Center for the Arts, a founding member of GLI.TC/H, and a contributor to the Atlantic.
