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Exploring Ephemeral Spaces: Melding Technology and Performance
Type: ACM SIGGRAPH Village Talk
Coordinated by: Johannes DeYoung
Event Date and Time: 28 July 2024 : 10:30am – 11:30am MDT
Description:
Exploring Ephemeral Spaces: Melding Technology and Performance
DescriptionIn this session, Sharifa Lafon, curator and executive director of the Digerati Emergent Media Festival, will moderate a discussion with artists Nima Behrahmand, Laurids Sonne, August Black, and Debora Bernagozzi who explore interdisciplinary approaches to experimental performance using computing, sound, and media. Performance, as a contemporary art practice, thrives beyond institutional spaces, fostering dynamic conversations that are rooted in play and the potential for participatory exchange with audiences. These widely exhibited artists have worked across multidisciplinary contexts, which offers insight into innovative approaches, and conceptual perspectives on technology and performance.
Location:
ACM SIGGRAPH Village
Coordinators(s):
Johannes DeYoung

Johannes DeYoung is an internationally recognized artist who works at the intersection of computational and material processes. His moving-image works have been exhibited internationally at venues such as: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, Alicante, Spain; Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; B3 Biennale of the Moving Image, Frankfurt en Main, Germany; Hesse Flatow (Crush Curatorial), Jeff Bailey Gallery, Robert Miller Gallery, Interstate Projects, Eyebeam, and MoMA PS1 Print Studio, New York, NY; as well as numerous festival screenings in countries such as Australia, Greece, Ireland, New Zealand, Turkey, and Vietnam. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The New York Post, The Huffington Post, and Dossier Journal. DeYoung is appointed Associate Professor of Electronic and Time-Based Media at Carnegie Mellon University. He previously taught at Yale University School of Art (2008—2018), where he was appointed Senior Critic and Director of the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, and at the Yale School of Drama, where he was appointed Lecturer in Design.

Johannes DeYoung