Zach Blas is an artist, filmmaker and writer whose practice draws out the philosophies and imaginaries residing in computational technologies and their industries. Working across moving image, computation, installation, theory and performance, Blas has exhibited, lectured and held screenings at venues including the 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern, 12th Gwangju Biennale and e-flux. His 2021 artist monograph Unknown Ideals is published by Sternberg Press. Blas is currently Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto.
Please join us for a reading group in conjunction with Aporia (Notes to a Medium). The selected texts by Hito Steyerl and Zach Blas contend with ideas of doubt in technology – particularly in AI – and its ever-evolving interventions in our lives as tools of censorship and surveillance.
And on Thursday, 1 February 2024 at 5 pm, Zach Blas will be in conversation with Jayne Wilkinson at the Belkin, a collaboration with Critical Image Forum.
Zach Blas, “Queer Darkness,” in Depletion Design: A Glossary of Network Ecologies, Carolin Wiedemann and Soenke Zehle (Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2012), 127-132, https://networkcultures.org/_uploads/tod/TOD%238_DEPLETION_DESIGN.pdf.
Hito Steyerl, “Mean Images,” New Left Review, 140/141, March/June 2023, https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii140/articles/hito-steyerl-mean-images.
Zach Blas is an artist, filmmaker and writer whose practice draws out the philosophies and imaginaries residing in computational technologies and their industries. Working across moving image, computation, installation, theory and performance, Blas has exhibited, lectured and held screenings at venues including the 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern, 12th Gwangju Biennale and e-flux. His 2021 artist monograph Unknown Ideals is published by Sternberg Press. Blas is currently Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto.
Aporia (Notes to a Medium) considers how history, mythology and wishful thinking entwine across media and through mediums. Artists include Colleen Brown, Azza El Siddique, Dani Gal, Katie Kozak and Lucien Durey, Mark Lewis, Jenine Marsh, Jalal Toufic and Elizabeth Zvonar.
[more]This reading room offers resources relating to the themes and artists present in the exhibition Aporia (Notes to a Medium).
[more]Join us for a talk by interdisciplinary artist Zach Blas, with a conversation to follow with Jayne Wilkinson.
[more]Please join us for this reading group in conjunction with Aporia (Notes to a Medium). The selected texts by Hito Steyerl and Zach Blas contend with ideas of doubt in technology - particularly in AI - and its ever-evolving interventions in our lives as tools of censorship and surveillance.
[more]As part of the exhibition Aporia (Notes to a Medium), the Belkin's Outdoor Screen will show Mark Lewis's From Third Beach 1 (2010) daily from 9 am to 9 pm.
[more]Join artists Azza El Siddique and Jenine Marsh for a conversation about their practices and works in the current exhibition Aporia (Notes to a Medium).
[more]In conjunction with Aporia (Notes to a Medium) join us for an outdoor screening of exhibiting artist Jalal Toufic's film Variations on Guilt and Innocence in 39 Steps.
[more]As part of the exhibition, Aporia (Notes to a Medium) join us for an online talk with exhibiting artists Katie Kozak and Lucien Durey.
[more]Elizabeth Zvonar's Gattamelata (2020) is part of the exhibition Aporia (Notes to a Medium) at the Belkin, which considers how history, mythology and wishful thinking entwine across media and through mediums; more of Elizabeth Zvonar's work can be seen here.
[more]Sound Plots is an online audio series that highlights meaningful dialogues and interventions around exhibitions and programming at the Belkin. This series focuses on themes from the exhibition Aporia (Notes to a Medium) that consider doubt and its role as an important artistic and critical tool. Through conversations, talks and tours that are re-situated in an online space, Sound Plots acts as an archive, resource and invitation for all.
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