Artist Talk: Tega Brain & Taeyoon Choi
Tega Brain will talk about exploring practices of eccentric engineering. How do leaks and inefficiencies reveal the politics of our technologies? Eccentric engineering deliberately attempts to relinquish some control in the systems we build, to create open opportunities for other agendas and outcomes. Tega will discuss recent projects on ecology, the subversion of data systems and designing intercourse rather than interface.
Taeyoon Choi will talk about School for Poetic Computation(SFPC) and Uncertainty School. SFPC is an artist-run school in New York City, a space for experimental pedagogy and topics in art and code. Uncertainty School is inclusive for people who have distinct senses and ways of communicating, moving and thinking. The participants and collaborators are a mix of artists, social workers, activist, people with and without disability. Bios:
-Tega Brain:
Tega Brain is an Australian born artist and environmental engineer whose eccentric engineering intersects art, ecology & engineering. Eccentric engineering reimagines technologies to address their scope and politics, with a focus on systems that enact more-than-only-human agendas. Her work takes the form of site specific public works, dysfunctional devices, experimental infrastructures and information systems.
-Taeyoon Choi
Artist and educator based in New York and Seoul. His art practice involves performance, electronics, drawings and storytelling that often leads to intervention in public spaces. Choi collaborates with fellow artists, activists and professionals from other fields to realize socially engaged projects and alternative pedagogy. He was an artist in residence at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He published three books about urbanism and is working on a new book of drawings about computation. Choi cofounded the School for Poetic Computation in 2013 where he continues to organize and teach. Recently, Taeyoon is focusing on unlearning the wall of disability and normalcy, and enhancing accessibility and diversity within art and technology.
Organized by ITP Residents Rebecca Lieberman and Cici Liu