NOW YOU ARE THERE WHEN THIS HAPPENED
Wei Yang, Murphy Janssen
OPEN: Friday, October 6, 2023 - 7:00pm to Friday, December 8, 2023 - 7:00pm
Performance: Monday Oct 30, 7:30 PM
Artist Talk: Friday, November 3, 7pm
This interactive audio-visual installation deals with the poetics and uncertainty of memory, which seems to stand still, until it is engaged; which seems to occupy a continuum, yet only exists in fragments of clarity, while the rest remains unclear. Sounds, colors—how are things like sound and colors recalled, reactivated, rebuilt, and reallocated? NOW YOU ARE THERE WHEN THIS HAPPENENED asks, whose memory is it? Is the past yet to be made?
About SPAM New Media Festival:
This year we launch SPAM, a Seattle based experimental arts festival which brings together practitioners working on the fringes and frontiers of new media art and knowledge production. Taking place at various venues across Seattle, the yearly festival consists of a program of exhibitions, performances and discussions rooted in, or emerging from, technology driven art and digital culture. This includes, but is not limited to, the projects of artists and researchers working within the fields of AI, robotics, sound, experimental video, VR, wearable technology, photogrammetry and radio.
For this year’s program, SPAM is thankful to be collaborating with Henry Art Gallery, Mini Mart City Park, Method Gallery, Gallery 4Culture, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Georgetown Steam Plant and Meany Hall at the University of Washington.
Please visit our website to see more about this year’s program of exhibitions, performances, and participating artists.