ART SPEAKS - Shifting Horizons: Art and Technology

Through their respective practices in curating and art making, Tina Rivers Ryan and Trevor Paglen will explore the history of new technologies in art, consider the current state of our image landscape, and explore how to harness and transcend the state of technology. The conversation will explore how new technologies have changed art making and presentation, how they impact our socio-political frameworks, the challenges they pose and the possibilities they open up. 
Tina Rivers Ryan is a critic, scholar, public speaker, curator and the Editor in Chief of Artforum magazine. She holds 5 degrees, including from Harvard and Columbia. Ryan has curated exhibitions including Peer to Peer, the first US museum survey of artists engaged with blockchain technologies, and (with Paul Vanouse) Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art. With expertise in the field of media art, including video, digital, and internet art, her work has focused on current topics such as the politics of glitch, NFTs, Identity and political engagement. Tina Rivers Ryan has worked at MoMA PS1, the MET, and was chief curator at Buffalo AKG Museum before becoming editor of Artforum. She has published widely in magazines, academic journals and catalogues for important global institutions such as Tate Modern and Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan. Dr. Ryan has also taught and lectured at Columbia University and MoMA among many others. 
Trevor Paglen’s artwork documents the ethics and dynamics of mass surveillance in the 21st century through image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering and numerous other disciplines. Profoundly concerned with learning how to see the historical moment we live in, he makes visible the clandestine and hidden information technologies that permeates land, sky and society. Paglen has developed a rigorous investigation of state surveillance, militarism, artificial intelligence, big data and the ways these issues influence modes of perceiving relating to machines, the natural world and more. Paglen’s work has appeared in major exhibitions around the world, including at Protocinema in Istanbul, the Vienna Succession, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington D.C., and Fondazione Prada in Milan. He is currently preparing exhibitions for the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa and Powerhouse Parramatta in Sydney. 

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