performances KELELA, JULIANA HUXTABLE, DINNER live visuals PUSSYKREW, KEVIN RAMSER interactive CRASH KISS by ROLLIN LEONARD & TAD LEONARD and AUGMENTATS by CMU MEDIATED REALITIES STUDENTS
VIA was invited by The Carnegie Museum of Art to curate a large-scale event celebrating the launch of their Hillman Photography Initiative, a five-year project exploring photography and digital culture. NOWSEETHIS 2015 was an overwhelming success, bringing together emerging local, national and international talent. This event also dovetailed with the closing of "Distant Feel" by Antoine Catala, co-presented with the New Museum Triennial. We considered this an opportunity to commission new work by emerging artists who are taking daring approaches to digital photography and 3D image capture to explore nu portraiture, queering the body, and mediated forms of intimacy. There were also serendipitous connections that could not be ignored - how could we not give a nod back to the Triennial by inviting Juliana Huxtable "the star of the New Museum Triennial" to DJ? Our music lineup was also a selectively curated network of artists, not just for the sonic palette we were trying to build, but also for the hybrid music/art circles in which they travel, and uncompromising sense of self that is defining a new generation of alt stars.
While NOWSEETHIS was a unique audio-visual event, it was also the culmination of an artist residency, lecture, custom commissions, and university coursework. Here are the research / educational components I developed in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University, and insight into the works I commissioned.
artist residency
