Dyscorpia — Exploring the mutating boundaries between humans and technology.
Dyscorpia
DYSCORPIA
April 23rd – June 30th 2019
DYSCORPIA 2.1
Launched 18th & 19th June 2020
DYSCORPIA 3
27th May - June 4th 2021
SYMPOSIUM:
April 27th, 2019 | 10am to 3pm
Dyscorpia is an exhibition that gathers artists and thinkers in visual art, design, contemporary dance, medical humanities, virtual reality, sound creation, computer science, and creative writing in order to question what it means not to know the limits of our bodies.
The aim of the Dyscorpia project is to question the intersections between the body and technology through an ongoing series of contemporary art exhibitions (both real and virtual). As part of the first exhibition in 2019 at Enterprise Square Galleries, there was a day-long symposium and a 206 pg color catalog which included an augmented gallery and collection of essays. This exhibition included the work of undergraduate and graduate students, local and international artists, as well as especially made collaborative research projects such as Human in the Loop (an interactive AI installation) which questions the relationship of humans as ‘data generators’ and AI as ‘data consumer’, and Evolving Anatomies, a print, sculpture, video and sound installation focused on the evolution of medical imaging/digitization of the body.
In 2020, as a result of COVID-19, the Dyscorpia 2.1 exhibition was an online exhibition, comprised of 5 galleries; Stilled Digital, Animated Digital, 3D Digital, Interactive Digital and Live Digital for which artists were invited to make work that addressed the body and technology in the time of the first COVID-19 lockdown. Now, as part of the Faculty of Arts Intersectional Salon during Congress 2021, Dyscorpia 3 will focus on the relationship between the body and technology through a critical lens of feminism, racial injustice, and digital privilege. In the open essay written for Dyscorpia 2.1, the Dyscorpia team recognized an urgent need to critically address the question of technology and the body in relation to systemic social and racial injustices and violence. We firmly believe that art and creative research plays a key role in facilitating and amplifying these conversations.
