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W/ Mohammad Salemy, Judy Radul, Daniel Young, Reza Negarestani, Rodolfo Sousa Ortega, and Romulo Moraes
Join us at Or Gallery for a book launch of Model Is the Message, a new anthology produced by Richmond Art Gallery, The New Centre for Research and Practice, and &&& Books. Model is the Message: Incredible Machines Conference 2022 examines the possibilities and limits of models as they pertain to technological developments in the fields of computer science, design, architecture art, and literature. Contributors include Franziska Aigner / Zenobio Almeida / Elie Ayache / Xenia Benivolski, Max Haiven & Graeme Webb / Benjamin Bratton & Blaise Agüera y Arcas / J.-P. Caron / AA Cavia / João Enxuto & Erica Love / Valentin Golev / Anna Longo / Vali Mahlouji / Cecile Malaspina / Mattin / Ross McElwain & Jay Springett / Jason Mohaghegh / Rômulo Moraes / Reza Negarestani / Eduarda Neves / Judy Radul / Patricia Reed / Cássia Siqueira / Rodolfo Sousa / Mi You / Dan Young.
The editor, Mohammad Salemy, will speak in-person with other contributors joining remotely to discuss the book and project. Salemy will also discuss the publishing program through &&& Books sharing the latest three publications: “Minor Bestiary: Time and Labyrinth in Contemporary Art,” “Model Is the Message: Incredible Machines Conference 2022,” and “Phenomenon & Difference: Essays on the Ontology of Ravaisson.”
“Minor Bestiary: Time and Labyrinth in Contemporary Art” is a discerning examination of recent trends in contemporary art. The author, Eduarda Neves, scrutinizes financial influence, curatorial practice, and the allure of prestige that shapes the artistic landscape together. Neves proposes a shift from grand curatorial narratives towards a “minor art” while confronting the art world’s complicity in broader global frameworks, particularly its intersections with planetary-scale tourism.
“Model is the Message” is the output of the Incredible Machines Conference 2022. It examines the possibilities and limits of models as they pertain to technological developments in computer science, design, architecture, art, and literature.
“Phenomenon & Difference” is François Laruelle’s very first book, translated for the first time by Lindsay Lerman for English speakers, a remarkable achievement considering the attention Laruelle’s work has been receiving due to its relevance to the discussions of immanence in continental philosophy. The interest of young Laruelle in Felix Ravaisson as the inspiration for his long standing focus on immanence offers historical and yet original connections between philosophy, abstraction, and art.
To learn more about our publishing initiative and to purchase any of the abovementioned books, please visit: https://tripleampersand.org/books/
About the Editor:
Daniel Young is a visual artist who is currently experimenting with social science through a book project titled ‘Vancouver’s Political Economy of Construction.’ Polygon Gallery is releasing his app,’ Rectangles on a Sphere,’ a conceptual response to Instagram, a circumnavigation of the earth using found images. In the past, he worked with Christian Giroux, producing cinema installations, public art, and artist books. Their project Berlin 2013/1983 attempts to answer two interrelated research questions: What does one year of new building construction in Berlin look like, and how does this contemporary Berlin compare to that of a generation earlier? Young’s contribution to Model Is the Message is titled “Five Propositions that Became Artworks,” a theory about the relationship between modeling and artmaking in his work.
Judy Radul is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator. She is known for her performance art and media installations, whose work centers primarily on film, video, sculpture, and multimedia installations that draw attention to and play with habits of perception, the staging of reality, and her stated interest in “entrances and exits as machines for the theatrical.” Radul received an MFA from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, and a BFA from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, where she serves as a professor. Radul’s contribution to Model Is the Message, titled “OuterVoice,” explores the idea of machine listening, proposing a new future terrain for AI speech.
Reza Negarestani is a philosopher. His current philosophical project is focused on rationalist universalism, beginning with the evolution of the modern system of knowledge and advancing toward contemporary philosophies of rationalism, their procedures, and their demands for special forms of human conduct. He is the author of Cyclonopedia (re. press, 2008) and Intelligence and Spirit (MIT Press, Urbanomic, 2018). Negarestani has contributed to Model is The Message with a piece titled “Imagination Inside-Out: Notes on Text-to-Image Models via Husserl & Vaihinger,” which analyzes the impact of text-to-image models, focusing on their ontological status and constitution.
Rodolfo Sousa Ortega is a Visual artist from Xalapa, México. He works with the erosion, deformation, theft, and interruption of images as capable of producing new narratives. He uses painting, drawing, video, and performance to appropriate images from archives, newspapers, memes, drifts by hyperlinks, rumors, and local insults. His academic articles and essays focus on conceptualisms in America and the disappearance of fixed autonomous artistic languages. He has a degree in Plastic Arts from the Universidad Veracruzana in Mexico. He completed postgraduate studies at the Universidad Nacional de Artes and the Artists Program of the Universidad Torcuato di Tella 2019 in Buenos Aires. He is a Researcher at The New Centre for Research & Practice. Ortega’s text contribution to Model Is the Message is titled “Humidity Heritage,” focusing on how models reconstruct archeological findings and shape the exhibition of cultural artifacts.
Rômulo Moraes is a Brazilian writer, sound artist, and ethnographer. He is a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at City University of New York (CUNY GC) with a Fulbright/CAPES Scholarship; he holds a Masters in Culture and Communication from ECO-UFRJ. He is the author of “Casulos” (Kotter, 2019) and has worked and taught at The New Centre for Research & Practice. Moraes’ contribution to Model Is The Message is titled “Portable Listening Devices as Virtual Reality,” which explores the cinematographic effect of music devices as an instance of virtual reality.