Dissident Futures: Artists in Conversation (2 of 2) | YBCA
Channel: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Date: 2013-11-14

A panel discussion with Dissident Futures exhibiting artists Revital Cohen, Shane Hope, David Huffman, Jason Kelly Johnson of Future Cities Lab, Basim Magdy, Dan Mills, Kamau Amu Patton, and Connie Samaras, with exhibition curator Betti-Sue Hertz.

More info @ http://ybca.org/dissident-futures

Dissident Futures explores a series of fundamental questions: How do artists imagine and question how power links innovation and the future when considering wide-ranging shifts, from biological expansion to space technology? How can artists' empathetic approaches to curiosity and doubt contribute to the larger field of future thinking? What do artists contribute to envisioning real and speculative futures?

The exhibition features an international roster of artists working in video and film, photography, painting, installation, sculpture, and performance, who engage wide-ranging topics including: the occult, science fiction, and outer space; afro-futurism; architecture and the environment, technology, the nature of human feeling, and language; mapping and atemporality; and post-apocalypse scenarios.

Participating artists are: Neïl Beloufa, Heman Chong and Anthony Marcellini, Peter Coffin, Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen, Brody Condon, Future Cities Lab, Melanie Gilligan, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Shane Hope, David Huffman, Paul Laffoley, Basim Magdy, Dan Mills, The Otolith Group, Trevor Paglen, Katie Paterson, Kamau Amu Patton, Connie Samaras, and Cauleen Smith.