UPCOMING PROGRAM
COPY/CUT/PASTE, A Zine-Making Workshop with Camila Galaz
Sunday, Oct 11 | 2-3 PM
Artist Camila Galaz will lead a hands-on zine-making workshop using the language and imagery of early computer advertising. Working with photocopies of these original 1980s advertisements, participants will cut up and recombine words, phrases, and images to create a one-page zine to take home. Transforming mass-market advertising into handmade, self-authored forms, participants will explore how computers were introduced to the public through promises about work, creativity, gender, and the future, and reflect on how we relate to technology today.
UPCOMING PROGRAM
ART ON SCREEN: E.A.T. and John Cage’s Variations VII
Tuesday, Oct 27 | 7:15-8:30 PM
At The Kentucky Theater: 214 E Main Street
A collaboration between 2nd Story, the University of Kentucky College of Design, and The Kentucky Theater, this program will feature a documentary about Experiments in Art and Technology’s 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, with a focus on John Cage’s performance Variations VII, during which he drew sounds from telephone lines, radio signals, household appliances, generators, brainwaves, and other sources to create a constantly changing composition. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Michael Solway of Cincinnati’s Solway Gallery, whose family had deep relationships with pioneering artists such as John Cage, Nam June Paik, Buckminster Fuller, and others working at the intersection of art and technology.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
CAMILA GALAZ
DISKETTE//ROSETTE
In her solo exhibition, Diskette//Rosette, Camila Galaz presents a series of new paintings, video, digital prints, and an interactive website examining how 1980s computer advertising used Charlie Chaplin’s “Little Tramp” character and the symbol of the rose to humanize technology. As Galaz explains, "This exhibition continues my exploration of semiotics, digital intimacy, and media archaeology, reconstructing lost or overlooked tech histories to better understand our current era of increasingly seamless human-computer integration."
2nd Story is an exhibition space in Lexington, Kentucky that presents curatorial projects and public programs.
Founded on the values of curatorial freedom, artistic experimentation, and open dialogue, we challenge exhibiting artists to take risks in creating new work and encourage the public to embrace all forms of contemporary art practices.
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