Lavigne and Brain at New Museum
ITP Alumnus Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain have an online exhibition at The New Museum in New York City.
The Making of Natural Language:
An evening with the Enron email archive
Friday, October 6, 7pm
New Museum
This panel discussion takes place in conjunction with the online exhibition “Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain: The Good Life,” copresented by the New Museum and Rhizome as part of the series First Look: New Art Online.
Tickets: $15 / $10 for New Museum Members / $10 for Rhizome Members (email curatorial@rhizome.org for code).
The panel will include Lavigne and Brain; Finn Brunton, scholar and author of Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet; artist Constant Dullaart, who will present an experiment with the Enron corpus undertaken with NYU data scientist Leon Yin; Devin Kenny, artist, writer, musician, and curator; and Mimi Onuoha, artist and researcher; and will be chaired by Kate Crawford, researcher, academic, and cofounder of the AI Now Institute. Blending historical analysis and artistic response, the panel will call attention to the significance of datasets like the Enron email archive—largely invisible, but instrumental in our daily lives.
Read Brendan Byrne’s text on the unnatural language of the Enron Email Corpus here.
Major support for First Look is provided by the Neeson/Edlis Artist Commissions Fund.
Additional support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Further support is provided by the Toby Devan Lewis Emerging Artists Exhibitions Fund.
New Museum and Rhizome public programs are supported, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.