METHOD

METHOD is a group exhibition is guest juried by interdisciplinary artist, author, and futurist Kira Xonorika, SUPERCOLLIDER SciArt Ambassador. This exhibition explores art in which experimentation, technology, or other scientific fields, are central to the work and artist’s practice.

METHOD is about technology, ecology, and embodiment. It layers the history of analog and digital processes that shape images and imaginaries, exploring transcultural aspects of language, its role in technoscience and the coloniality embedded in cartographic forms. The artists’ explorations connect seemingly divergent ecosystems, expanding their meaning. Reflections on ecology reimagine the evolution of Earth in conjunction with technological processes, as visualized in digital art, while critically examining the settler logic of taxonomizing species and dividing land to separate lifeworlds. The artworks on technology are informed by the development of artificial intelligence and their ideological roots, such as transhumanism (the techno evolution of the human race) and singularitarianism (when machines hypothetically surpass human intelligence). Through cyberpunk aesthetics that critique technofetishism and explore machine memory, technology could be seen as both an echo of the body and a medium for collective subversion. Finally, embodiment explores through queer, Indigenous, and speculatively more-than-human knowledge systems, recognizing the value of differences in configuring a life-centric approach to design. Various methods are employed to understand strategic entanglements and their cyclical feedback loops.

It features works by Lauren Bedal, Jenna Caravello, CHẾ, Chris Combs, Ismael de Anda III & Eugene Ahn, Tielin Ding, Richelle Ellis, Ksti Hu, Kim Kei, Elizabeth Leister, Lineadeluz, Edua Mercedes, Reuben Merringer, Ashton Phillips, Koi Ren & Joey Verbeke, Dylan Ricards, Miller Robinson, Kayla Tange, Ambrose Trataris & Lucy Black, Ayzay Ukwuoma, Devin Wilson, and Erika Weitz.