4bid Gallery // 17:00 // € donation 23.06.01_Spring 2023_Experimenta_01 https://fb.me/e/1aqmnxqkT Genre: contemporary art Line up: Cooper Clements, Nate Gizaw, Owen Halpert, Patsy Koonce, Rachel Kraff, Penelope Lapaglia, Lindsey Cate Madden, Aden Malone, Lillian Silver, Mackenzie Timbrell Open: 17:00 - 20:00 hrs Tickets: € donation Exhibition: 23.06.01_Spring 2023_Experimenta_01 by UvA and VU study abroad students - Opening times: Thursday, 1 June 5pm - 8pm 4bid Gallery (Overtoom 301, 1054 HW Amsterdam) - With: Cooper Clements Nate Gizaw Owen Halpert Patsy Koonce Rachel Kraff Penelope Lapaglia Lindsey Cate Madden Aden Malone Lillian Silver Mackenzie Timbrell 23.06.01_Spring 2023_Experimenta_01 showcases the final projects from students enrolled in the course Experimental Media and the Internet in Contemporary Art. Each piece from the 10 artists represents a culmination of a semester’s worth of research, creation, and self-reflection. They tackle challenging topics from bathroom legislation to body image to the uncertainties surrounding AI, reflecting the diversity and depth of their creative explorations. The exhibition serves as an open platform, inviting the public to interact with these crucial works. - About the artists and their work: Cooper Clements Cooper Clements is a 21-year-old college student born and raised in San Francisco, California. My piece focuses on the presence of social media in our lives and what we all choose to share with the world. The short video was made during my time studying abroad in Amsterdam over the past year and focuses on the current TikTok trends of showing off fantastic travel experiences. The video emphasizes what is often shown on social media, people laughing and having fun, as well as beautiful vistas, while also playing on the trend by focusing on something that I have experienced while studying abroad that is not exactly social-media-ready or mainstream. Nate Gizaw My name is Nate and I am a 21 year old college student born in Ethiopia and currently living in the United States. This project is my very first public art showing but my interest in different forms of experimental media is a bit beyond this course as I have always gravitated my interest towards technological innovation. In our rapidly evolving digital age, nothing embodies the intersection of technology and human intellect more potently than artificial intelligence. Machine learning, specifically deep learning, introduced a new era of technological advancement with endless possibilities. By inviting viewers to engage with the topic and these selected themes, I hope to start a conversation about the kind of future we are creating if we continue to make strides towards artificial intelligence. This is what my project is, a reality check on what artificial intelligence could become. Owen Halpert Owen Halpert is a digital artist from Los Angeles, California whose art focuses on the digital world and the implications of fast-moving technological advances without regulation. As a student, he studies computer science and music, their intersection being a passion and influence in his style. The Lexicon Augmented Mimetic Engine is an ultra-advanced intelligence model that is trained on a large dataset containing over 20 million images. The model in its training period learned the meanings of various objects and visual representations. As a result, this AI art tool created by the artist can accurately represent a user's prompt in a matter of minutes, drawing on its years of learning and studying art inputs. Patsy Koonce Patterson Koonce is a 21 year old artist from Bethesda, Maryland. She specializes in expression through film, bookmaking, digital editing, and paper collage. She works best at 2AM with early 2000s pop in her headphones and prefers to create art by making a mess and cleaning it up until she feels it is presentable. My work explores the idea of saying everything you can and subsequently saying nothing at all. I am trying to convey the action of screaming so loud that your voice cuts off and all that comes out is carbon dioxide and a whole lot of frustration. I take inspiration from the hundreds of notes passed back and forth in classes in my youth, destroyed upon being received, and also the journals I’ve poured my heart out to and hid under mattresses and chair cushions when I leave town. My goal is to create art that hides my secrets in plain sight. Rachel Kraff My name is Rachel, I am a student at the University of Rochester where I study Philosophy and Psychology. Why am I in the Netherlands you might ask? Well, for the past few months, I have been studying at the University of Amsterdam as part of a semester-abroad program! My ~amazing~ film here might have you fooled, but, I actually have not taken any art courses in my undergraduate career. The idea behind my film was to challenge myself and shed light on the societal pressures of body image. I stand in front of a mirror and try to remember comments people have made to me about my body. After writing these memories on the mirror, I attempt to erase as much as I can. With hard work, you are able to fade these memories and heal, but never will they be completely forgotten. Penelope Lapaglia Penelope LaPaglia is from Los Angeles, CA and is currently studying abroad at the UvA. She is due to graduate from her home school Sarah Lawrence College in May of 2024. Penelope is interested in public space, bodies in public and queer issues. Water closet aims to raise awareness about the lack of transgender access to public restrooms in the United States. Lindsey Cate Madden Lindsey Cate Madden, the youngest of three girls, has grown up surrounded by beautiful femininity and eating disorders. Much of Lindsey’s work explores the relationship between herself, her femininity, and her body. One night, in a fight about her health, Lindsey’s mother asked: Is this a game to you? Is This a Game to You? is a magical journey through the world of TikTok health girlies. Thin is in again, and this time, it has an army of Pilates girls that are hangry from intermittent fasting. Players should follow instructions exactly to appease the ever-present and vocal community of self-proclaimed health gurus. This piece allows players to step into the shoes of a girl desperately trying to work through an eating disorder in the world of contradictory, hypercritical, harmful ‘advice’ given under the guise of health blogs and pink Lululemon. Be careful. They’re always watching. They want you to fail. Aden Malone Aden Malone (b. 2002 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American student of psychology, philosophy, computer science, and art history. Generally specializing in writing, this is his first sculptural piece. Merging his academic interests, his work encourages thought on the boundary between humans and computers as well as the ethics of technological development. The use of AI by non-scientists has exploded in 2023, changing the way we (consciously) interact with computers. This technology, though, is complex and blackboxed: most users know nothing of its creation, function, and faults. This piece encourages the viewer both to step forward and look at AI more closely, to realize its flaws, and step back to truly think about the societal role these systems should play. The posters include two images visible to humans: a collection of binary code, and an illusory, attention-grabbing word in the middle. The binary code (a mechanical message) repeatedly spells out “I love you,” which would usually be considered an inherently human message. The design of these posters also relied heavily on code written by ChatGPT3; a symbolic surrender to such systems. Lillian Silver Lillian Silver is from New Jersey and is a senior at Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently studying at the UvA for her year abroad. Lillian is interested in visual art and mental health awareness. In Oops! I Broke it Lillian is tackling her recent struggle with mental health. Mackenzie Timbrell Mackenzie Timbrell was born on September 26th, 2002 and sexually assaulted on June 28th, 2020. After this, she started to focus her art on exploring identity and how complex anger, forgiveness, and acceptance are after trauma. This work looks at the complexities of trying to rediscover how you present yourself to the world after someone has taken the power of self-identity away from you. Do we ever regain that part of ourselves or do we simply move on? -- (Text and image) https://www.ot301.nl/agenda/13926