Let’s Get Into Digital (Apr-May)
The Back Room, Eidos Collective, Transnational Coalition for the Arts, Ayala Museum, and The High Line
By Alana Malika
Chong Yan Chuah, ‘Untitled_D’, 2021, Video installation, 20 min, loop, 10 Editions + 1 AP. Image courtesy of The Back Room.
Untitled_N and NFT Listings at FAC3D
Initiated by Malaysian artist Chong Yan Chuah, ‘FAC3D’ is a project interrogating the role of digital mediums in identity formation. In an interdisciplinary presentation of machine learning, digital art and writing, the online exhibition ‘Untitled_N’ by Chong Yan looks closely at the digital nurture of human behavior and the implications of a society threatened by an Information Apocalypse. The interactive exhibition and NFT listings at The Back Room not only highlights humanity’s progress developing an alternate virtual realm, but also how the progress of artificial intelligence in mimicking human interactions.
The Back Room, 27 March to 18 April 2021.
Dispatch
Eidos Collective presents ‘Dispatch’ a podcast series that ‘patches the distances’ of budding art locales around the world amidst a time of stringent travel restrictions. Available on Spotify and Apple Podcast, the initiative aims to decentre Eurocentric artistic discourse by hosting dialogues with refreshing art practitioners from different regions. Its first series is hosted by Vietnamese curator Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần who will focus on Southeast Asia’s art scene.
Eidos Collective. Listen to the podcast on Spotify here.
Doss, Montaner y Simon, ‘Viaje A Filipinas. –Mercado De Daraga’, 1886, hand-colored print 12 x 16 cm. Image courtesy of Ayala Museum.
In Focus
In a collaboration between Ayala Museum and Filipinas Heritage Library, ‘In Focus’ is a video series highlighting arts, culture, and history in the Philippines. The second season will delve into a close analysis of artworks and objects from the museum’s collection. Their first episode discusses the history of travel journalism in the Philippines before the use of photography through an examination of a print illustrating the night market in Daraga, Albay at the end of the 19th century.
Ayala Museum. Watch ‘In Focus’ here.
Song-Ming Ang, ‘Backwards Bach’, 2014, film still. Image courtesy of the artist.
Artist talk with Song-Ming Ang and High Line Art Associate Curator Melanie Kress
In conjunction with Song-Ming Ang’s solo exhibition ‘Piano Magic’ at the High Line, New York, the gallery will be hosting an artist talk with curator Melanie Kress. Ang will discuss his artistic practice that exists at the intersection of music and art, particularly his two films ‘Backwards Bach (2014)’ and ‘Parts and Labour (2011)’. The dialogue aims to give insight into how his experimentations with materiality of instruments affect their sonic qualities.
The High Line, April 6 2021, 1 to 2 PM (EST). Register here.
