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GALLERY HOURS (during exhibitions)
Monday - Saturday, 11am – 4pm
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May 19 – July 15

Carla Gannis

WWWUNDERKAMMER

May 19 – July 15

Carla Gannis

WWWUNDERKAMMER

In wwwunderkammer, Carla Gannis aims to decolonize the Wunderkammer (and by extension—the museum) by using various technologies to conflate the real and the virtual. Her exhibition wwwunderkammer is a real-world manifestation of her ongoing project of the same name, which exists online via social VR on Mozilla Hubs and in a high-resolution desktop VR. The ongoing project consists of different “chambers” that focus on specific aspects of our contemporary life, such as increasing threats to our environment and animals in it, how technologies alter our perception of ourselves, and how our language has shifted with the advent of the internet and advanced computers. The gallery installation will use augmented reality to obfuscate what seems real and what does not. These strategies help Gannis explore what it means to be a human in the age of the internet while also endeavoring to make information and knowledge accessible to all.

Carla Gannis

WWWUNDERKAMMER

May 19 – July 15
Opening Reception
Halsey Institute galleries and Hill Exhibition Gallery
Friday, May 19, 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Free for CofC community + members, $5 donation otherwise
Artist Talk with Carla Gannis
Halsey Institute galleries
Saturday, May 20, 2:00 PM
WGS Intersections, a panel discussion
Halsey Institute galleries
Tuesday, May 23, 6:00 PM
In partnership with the CofC Women's and Gender Studies Program
Curator Coffee Club
Halsey Institute galleries
Friday, June 2, 9:00 - 11:00 AM
Open to Halsey Institute members at all levels
Halsey After Hours
Halsey Institute galleries and Hill Exhibition Gallery
Wednesday, June 21, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Free for Members, suggested $10 donation otherwise
Sit a Spell
Halsey Institute galleries
Thursday, June 29, 12:00 PM
In partnership with the CofC Computing in the Arts program
Family Day!
Halsey Institute galleries and Hill Exhibition Gallery
Sunday, July 9, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Free for Members, suggested $5 donation otherwise
About the artist

Carla Gannis is a transmedia artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She produces works that consider the uncanny complications between grounded and virtual reality, nature and artifice, science and science fiction in contemporary culture. Fascinated by digital semiotics, Gannis takes a horror vacui approach to her artistic practice, culling inspiration from networked communication, art and feminist histories, emerging technologies and speculative design.

Gannis’s work has appeared in exhibitions, screenings and internet projects across the globe. 2022 projects include “Welcome to the wwwunderkammer,” at the Pérez Art Museum Miami and “The Elevated Line” at Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, NY. A regular lecturer on digital art and extended reality, in March 2019 Gannis was a speaker at the SXSW Interactive Festival on the panel “Human Presence and Humor Make Us Better Storytellers.” Publications that have featured Gannis’s work include The Creators ProjectWiredFastCoHyperallergicThe Wall Street Journal, The New York TimesEl PaÍs and The LA Times, among others.  In 2015 her speculative fiction was included in DEVOURING THE GREEN:: fear of a human planet: a cyborg / eco poetry anthology, published by Jaded Ibis Press.

Gannis holds a BFA and MFA in Painting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Boston University, respectively. Currently, she is Industry Professor at New York University (NYU) in the Integrated Design and Media Program, Department of Technology, Culture and Society, Tandon School of Engineering. She is also a Year 7 Alum of NEW INC, in the XR: Bodies in Space track, New York, NY.

Learn more about Carla Gannis: carlagannis.com

 

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