Telematic Media Arts

presents

Virtues and Vices

Voices from the wwwunderkammer
Carla Gannis

February 23rd –  April 1st, 2023
Opening Reception:
Thursday, February 23rd, 6:00 – 9:00pm

In-Conversation with Vanessa Chang
(Director of Programs, Leonardo / ISAST):
Saturday, February 25th, 2:00 – 3:00pm

323 10th St. (SoMa), San Francisco, CA 94103

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Statement

As a further elaboration of her wwwunderkammer project, in Virtues and Vices, New York artist Carla Gannis presents a pantheon of avatars, embodying paradigms of digital culture and her own personality, now given voices by artificial intelligence.

Gannis’ wwwunderkammer appeals to the 16th-Century cabinet of curiosities to mine the complication of grounded and virtual reality, nature and artifice, science and science-fiction in digital culture and society.  She sees the Internet itself as an archive of wondrous phenomena, caught somewhere between fantasy, reality, popular culture, and technology.  She explores these complications as evidence of an underdetermination in their being, ripe with potential for creative intervention; and she constructs virtual worlds of her own based on de-colonizing, post-humanist, and feminist archives.

In Virtues and Vices, Gannis focuses specifically on the digital deconstruction of identity, foregrounding the eclectic pantheon of personalities that she has developed, over the years, as an integral part of her investigation into the breakdown between the virtual and the actual.  The work is performative, enacting the diversity of identities that we assume on the Internet and elsewhere, both as expressions of who we are and as the alien effects of digital media, which nevertheless shape our sense of ourselves and our relationships with others.  At the same time, these figures present defining features of digital culture itself, which Gannis highlights, explores, and develops to her own ends.  And, for the first time in this show, Gannis gives her avatars new voices with the Artificial Intelligence, ChatGP, further pressing the question of where she ends and they begin.

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