The Simulationists

Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago

The exhibition, performance evening, and symposium address the impact of networks, computer code, avatars, and virtual environments on our understanding and expression of embodied performance. In this project, artificial realities and real bodies, and in turn, artificial bodies and real environments interpenetrate and transform one another.

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An exhibition, a panel and an evening of performance curated by Claudia Hart, Mark Jeffrey and Judd Morrisey

The Simulationists: Mixed Reality Performance is an interdisciplinary exhibition exploring the performative expression of presence in our digitally mediated and networked culture. Through gallery performances, physical artifacts, and installed digital media, this interdisciplinary exhibition will address the impact of digital technology, networks, computer code, avatars, and virtual environments on our understanding and expression of embodied performance.

In the Simulationists, artificial realities and real bodies, and in turn, artificial bodies and real environments interpenetrate and transform one another. While The Simulationists may be choreographers, performers, cineaists, writers, engineers, or some imprecise melding between these, they all transform space through the hybridization of digital and physical processes. They are world- builders, trespassers, escape artists, data-bodies, avatar dancers, and poets of code and language.

The exhibition, co-curated by Claudia Hart, Mark Jeffery and Judd Morrissey, all professors at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will include selected contributions from students and alumni of two of their SAIC studio courses, Live Presence, Technology, Virtual Spaces, and Digital Bodies. The student projects will be shown alongside work by contemporary artists who were studied in the classes and therefore directly influenced students' production.

The exhibition features cris cheek, Ursula Endlicher, Kurt Hentschlager, Second Front, Alan Sondheim; SAIC alumni Chris Cuellar, Cassandra Jackson, Colin Self, Tessa Siddle and Katrina Zimmerman; and SAIC students Lauren Elder, André Lenox, Evan Lennox, Lou Regele, Molly Shea, Nancy Tien, and Wesley Wilson.

The exhibition and related programs are curated by SAIC faculty Claudia Hart, Mark Jeffery, and Judd Morrissey, the Simulationists is also accompanied by a symposium and performance event on February 18, as well as gallery talks and performances February 15 and 23.

Mixed Reality Symposium
Friday, February 18, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
SAIC Performance Space
280 S. Columbus Dr., room 012
Hosted by SAIC’s Department of Performance and co-sponsored by SAIC’s Writing program, presenters include Ghislaine Boddington, cris cheek, Ursula Endlicher, Kurt Hentschlager, Chris Salter, and Alan Sondheim who will respond through various interdisciplinary engagements with art history, digital performance, new media poetry, and augmented choreography.

The Simulationists: An Evening of Mixed Reality Performances
Friday, February 18, 7:00 p.m.
SAIC Performance Space
280 S. Columbus Dr., room 012
Presenting interventions merging live presence with virtual bodies and environments. Featuring cris cheek, Ursula Endlicher, and Kurt Hentschlager. The evening is co-sponsored by SAIC's Department of Performance, Exhibitions/Exhibition Studies, Visiting Artists Program, and Conversations at the Edge.

Gallery Performances
Wednesday, February 23, 4:15 p.m.
Betty Rymer Gallery
Featuring performances by Second Front, Colin Self, Molly Shea, Nancy Tien, and Wesley Wilson

Image: Tessa Siddle, Mutant

Press contact:
Ann Wiens 312.629.6135 awiens@saic.edu
John Eding 312.259.2968 jeding@saic.edu

Exhibition Reception: Friday, February 18, 4:30–7:00 p.m, featuring a virtual performance by Alan Sondheim

Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
280 S. Columbus Drive, Chicago, IL
Tue.–Sat., 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

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