This event has passed.
Join us for a conversation with artist Kenzie Housego and curator Lindsey Sharman as they discuss Housego's new exhibition I❤U on display. This program will feature a lively conversation between the artist and curator of I❤U . This pre-opening program is included in admission or free for AGA Members, and is before our Summer Exhibition Opening. At the end of this program, we will reserve time for an audience Q&A. Registration is recommended due to space limitations.
Learn more about the Exhibition Opening.
About the Exhibition:
Kenzie Housego’s exhibition I❤U blends embroidery with digital technologies to explore how flirting and courtship have changed over time. I❤U simultaneously investigates the social meanings of flowers, embroidery patterns and emojis in text and sexts. Her textile-based practice combines technological components to create interactive works that both sense and communicate with visitors to the exhibition. Some of the work in the exhibition will react when visitors come close to them and others have phone numbers that you can text. The artwork highlights how romantic communication is coded, transmitted, interpreted, and misinterpreted via technology.
Organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta and curated by Lindsey Sharman. The RBC New Works Gallery features new artworks by Alberta artists and continues the Art Gallery of Alberta’s tradition of supporting and promoting Alberta
Kenzie Housego recently completed a Master of Fine Art specializing in new media at the University of Calgary, Mohkinstsis, in Treaty 7 region southern Alberta. As a multidisciplinary artist her practice includes fibre, embroidery, new media, and assemblage mediums. The use of technology such as LEDs, Arduino micro-controllers, texting, and screens within her research is symbolic of the virtual realms in which we participate as a society. The virtual encompasses social media platform activity, online personas, online dating, and online branding. The digital world has become ubiquitous in communication, shaping contemporary society, particularly in relation to online representation.
It's important to her that her artwork always offers an invitation for interactivity, encouraging viewers to shift from passive observers to active co-producers as they engage with the digital media, experience other points of view, and ultimately, form their own individual meanings. I❤️U explores contemporary courtship, romance, technology and historical signs and signifiers connected to dating and romance.
Housego has had the opportunity to showcase her art nationally and internationally at Beakerhead festival in Calgary, CURRENTS festival, Santa Fe New Mexico, Rome MakerFaire, MakerFaire Bay Area in California, Fashionwear New York, CES Vegas, Xiamen Fashion Week, China, CES ASIA, Shanghai, China, Dublin Ireland, and at a two-week art residency in Shenzhen, China.
Housego currently lives and practices in Calgary, Alberta.
|
Included in admission
|
Included in admission
|
|
| No upcoming dates. |