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DESCRIPTION:Digital Art\, Architecture and the Body is part of our contempo
 rary reflections series The Art of Living: Bodily Experiences of Space\, C
 urated by Kristen J. OwensThe Art of Living: Bodily Experiences of Space i
 s a four-part contemporary reflections series organized in conjunction wit
 h the exhibition Eileen Gray and inspired by the ways in which Gray’s arch
 itectural and interior designs were created with the individual’s bodily e
 xperience of the space in mind.Digital Art\, Architecture\, and the Body b
 rings together four artists\,(Alredo Salazar-Caro\, Ashley Baccus-Clark\, 
 Jacolby Sattewhite and Ari Melenciano) who work at the intersections of di
 gital art\, architecture\, neuroscience and technology. During this conver
 sation\, they will discuss their work and its relationship to architecture
 \, the artistic possibilities of virtual reality as a form of digital arch
 itecture\, as well as their predictions for architecture’s future relation
 ship to technology.Other Conversations in the series include:Saturday\, Ma
 rch 28Blackness and Spatial Matters: A Performance LectureWith Mario Goode
 n\, Jonathan Gonzalez and Mabel O. Wilson.Thursday\, April 9Queer Historie
 s in ArchitectureWith Mariel Villeré and JD SassamanThursday\, June 11Desi
 gning Social/Cultural SpacesSpeakers to be announced.Meet the SpeakersAlfr
 edo Salazar-Caro is a creator living/working between Mexico City\, NYC\, a
 nd Online. His works is an amalgamation of portraiture\, installation/scul
 pture\, documentary\, video and VR/AR. Salazar-Caro is co-creator and crea
 tive director of DiMoDA\, The Digital Museum of Digital Art. DiMoDA is a g
 roundbreaking project that functions as a VR institution and exhibition pl
 atform dedicated to the development of XR Art. His work has been exhibited
  internationally. Exhibitions include : Tribeca Film Festival\, Dreamlands
  at the Whitney Museum\, The Wrong Biennale in São Paulo\, Brazil\, New No
 rmal Beirut/Istanbul\, Die Ungerahmte Welt\, HeK\, Basel Switzerland\, Sig
 graph Asia\, Bangkok\, Thailand and 1Mes1Artista Mexico City among others.
   His work can be seen in publications such as Leonardo\, Cultured Magazin
 e\, Vice Magazine and Creators Project.Ashley Baccus-Clark is a Berlin-bas
 ed Molecular & Cellular Biologist and multidisciplinary artist who uses ne
 w media and storytelling to explore themes of deep learning\, cognition\, 
 memory\, race\, trauma\, and systems of belief. She currently consults in 
 virtual reality production and is working on her first feature. Ash is cur
 rently represented by Mssng Peces\, is an Ida Ely Rubin Artist in Residenc
 e at the MIT Center for Art\, Science & Technology\, an RLabs XR Beta Resi
 dent\, and a 2019 United States Artist fellow in Media. In her work with H
 yphen-Labs\, Ash served as the Director of Brand Marketing & Research\, wr
 iting and producing an award-winning immersive installation project\, Neur
 oSpeculative AfroFeminism (NSAF)\, a three-part digital narrative that sit
 s at the intersection of product design\, virtual reality\, and neuroscien
 ce that was originally inspired by the lack of multidimensional representa
 tions of Black women in technology. NSAF incorporates object-based design\
 , virtual reality\, and cognitive impact research that reimagines the futu
 re of Black women in STEM fields.Ari Melenciano is a Brooklyn-based artist
 \, designer\, creative technologist\, researcher\, and futurist\, who is p
 assionate about exploring the relationships between various forms of desig
 n and the human experience. Ari is the founder of Afrotectopia\, a social 
 institution fostering interdisciplinary innovation at the intersections of
  art\, design\, technology\, Black culture and activism. Afrotectopia is m
 ost commonly experienced via their annual New Media Arts\, Culture and Tec
 hnology Festival. She is currently teaches technology\, society and design
  at New York University and the Pratt Institute. Ari is continuing her res
 earch as an NYU Interactive Telecommunications Graduate Program Fellow and
  an inaugural NYU Future Imagination Fund Fellow. She is incubating her el
 ectromedia art practice through technology residencies at Pioneer Works an
 d Culture Hub\, and as an Experiments in Arts and Technology track member 
 at New Inc in partnership with Rhizome and Nokia Bell Labs. Ari is also a 
 consultant for NYC’s Department of Education\, helping to build STEAM curr
 iculum that is culturally relevant.Jacolby Satterwhite is a multi-discipli
 nary artist who uses video\, performance\, 3D animation\, drawing\, fibers
  and printmaking to explore themes of memory\, desire\, and personal and p
 ublic mythology. In his video works\, Satterwhite creates fantastical digi
 tal landscapes populated with multiple\, costumed avatars of himself\, eng
 aging with hand-drawn objects and text as extensions of the body\, in a se
 amless exchange between live performance and constructed worlds. Satterwhi
 te's computer-generated realms—densely layered with proliferating drawings
 \, objects and performances—encompass animated narratives of personal memo
 ry and identity. Satterwhite was born in 1986. He was a featured artist in
  the 2014 Whitney Biennial and his work has recently been included in the 
 following exhibitions: Sundance Film Festival (2014)\, How Lovely is Me Be
 ing As I Am\, OHWOW Gallery\, Los Angeles (2014)\, Step and Repeat\, MOCA\
 , Los Angeles (2014)\, Radical Presence\, Walker Art Center\, Minneapolis 
 (2014)\, The House of Patricia Satterwhite\, Mallorca Landings\, Mallorca 
 (2013)\; The Matriarch's Rhapsody\, Monya Rowe Gallery\, New York (2013)\;
  Approximately Infinite Universe\, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (2
 013)\; AIM Biennial\, Bronx Museum\, (2013)\; Radical Presence\, Contempor
 ary Arts Museum Houston (2012-13)\; 3-D Form: Aboveground Animation\, The 
 New Museum\, New York (2012)\; Park Side of the Moon\, Socrates Sculpture 
 Park\, (2012)\; If Theres No Dancing At The Revolution I'm Not Coming\, Re
 cess Activities\, New York (2011)\; Weerrq!\, MoMA P.S.1\, Queens (2010)\;
  and multiple exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem\, New York. Satte
 rwhite is a recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and the Art Matte
 rs grant. His works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of Americ
 an Art\, Seattle Art Museum\, and Studio Museum in Harlem\, among others. 
 Satterwhite lives in New York.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: CANCELED–The Art of Living: Digital Art\, Arc
 hitecture\, and the Body
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