Life After Life: A Video Lecture & Poetry Reading
Gray Area Happy Hour
Join us for a Video Lecture & Poetry Reading by Delta_Ark followed by Gray Area Happy Hour!
Life After Life: A Video Lecture & Poetry Reading
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Doors at 6:00PM
Talk begins: 7:00PM
Cash Bar
Seated Event, followed by Happy Hour
Sliding Scale Admission $0-30
All Ages
Members get 1 free drink!
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Join us at Gray Area for Life After Life, a performative artist talk and video presentation with Incubator Member and current Gallery Spotlight artist Delta_Ark, aka Ari Kalinowski.
In an engaging lecture, Kalinowski will present an overview of the philosophical thinking that drives their simulation-based practice. Speaking in rich detail on evolution, computation, and complexity, while showcasing science fiction-based artworks like Novascene Hekhalot and Binah: Forms for Wisdom, Kalinowski will unpack how biological agents transform into computational entities over time, both in narrative and in gameplay.
This session will include screenings and readings from within both game-worlds, followed by a live-demo of Binah: Forms for Wisdom and a Happy Hour with the artist.
On view in the Gray Area Gallery: Binah: Forms for Wisdom
On view from January 10 to March 1, Binah: Forms for Wisdom is an art game by Delta_Ark, set in a future where players explore the Island of Binah to uncover the mysteries of humanity's disappearance. Built in Unreal Engine 5, the game uses an autonomous system to dynamically change the environment. Through recorded testimonies, it speculates on technological impacts, offering insights into evolving agency and exploring themes of transformation in the human experience.
About the Artist
Delta_Ark (Ari Kalinowski)
Delta_Ark’s current work is a sequence of interactive virtual environments and audio-visual experiences that represent and embody different relationships between human-like entities, artificial intelligences (of various powers) and natural systems (or chimeras) in different science fiction contexts, often involving precipitous technological evolution, climate change or the far future. Many of these works explore future power-relations between AGIs, ASIs and cyberized forms of collective and individual human intelligence in order to sketch out some visions of a post-biological (and/or synthetic-biological) future. Motifs from Jewish mythology, Japanese popular media and contemporary philosophy often form the contextual backdrop of these explorations.
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