​**HYBRID IN-PERSON / ONLINE**

​Join us for October's Cybersentics Book Club, where we'll discuss a chapter on artists' work with telepresence, focusing on the Satellite Arts Project—pioneering telecollaborative performance work created by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz between 1975 and 1977.

​This month, Cybersentics Book Club meets in person and online to discuss Chapter 4 of Kris Paulsen's Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface.

​Long before "videoconferencing" and "the cloud" entered our vocabulary, Galloway and Rabinowitz (working together as Mobile Image) were already asking what it might mean for bodies, gestures, and performances to exist simultaneously across distant places. The book chapter reads this as a foundational moment in telepresent art: an attempt to imagine touch, presence, and collaboration across a distance technology alone couldn't close.

​Last year, Gray Area hosted a screening with Kit Galloway.

​This Month’s Reading:
Paulsen, Kris. Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface. MIT Press, 2017.

​§ Chapter 4: Inhabiting the Interface: The Mixed Reality of Satellite Telecommunication.

​N.B. We have a physical copy of the book in Cybersentics Little Library donated by Vanessa Chang of Leonardo/ISAST.

​Access Reading
Also Included with RSVP: You’ll receive the reading link in your confirmation email.

​Featured Speaker

​Michael Connor is Executive Director of Rhizome, where he oversaw the Net Art Anthology initiative, an effort to retell the history of net art through 100 works, presented as an online exhibition, gallery exhibition, and book. He is also curatorial advisor for Kadist, a non-profit contemporary art organization, and ArtBlocks, an NFT platform. His first online curatorial project took place in 2003 at FACT, Liverpool, where he organized an edition of the traveling exhibition “Kingdom of Piracy” with Shu Lea Cheang, Yukiko Shikata, and Armin Medosch. Connor is currently editing a book by Gene Youngblood about the work of Kit Galloway & Sherrie Rabinowitz.

​Partners

​Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarship, and digital preservation. Founded by artist Mark Tribe as an email discussion list including some of the first artists to work online, Rhizome has played an integral role in the history of contemporary art engaged with digital technologies and the internet.

Since 2003, Rhizome has been an affiliate in residence at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. Founded in 1977, the New Museum is a leading destination for new art and new ideas. Together, New Museum, Rhizome, and NEW INC, the first museum-led incubator founded by New Museum in 2014, explore the future of contemporary art and technology.

​Accessibility:

​All ages welcome. A high school reading level or above is recommended.

​Hybrid event
In-person meeting hosted upstairs in the Gray Area Incubator, not wheelchair or mobility accessible.
Online Zoom link provided upon RSVP.

​View our FAQ page for more info, or contact us at info@grayarea.org with any accommodation requests.