Grace Grothaus
Earth’s biosphere is an endless cross-species collaboration: fluid, multiple, and ever-shifting. It seems that a new picture of embodiment is emerging, percolating into contemporary conceptions of our bodies and their boundaries. It is difficult to continue to conceive of ourselves as discrete organisms knowing that most of the cells that comprise our body are not human but belong to other species, and that these internal ecologies are constantly evolving through environmental influence. It seems we need to look no farther than ourselves to find interspecies collaboration. As these microbiomes are no longer invisible to us, we are realizing just how permeable the boundaries are and shifting our understanding to the realization that there is no ‘away’ and no ‘other’; every being is interconnected. From the micro to the macro, we contain and are part of worlds within worlds. This project challenges our perception of the exterior and interior, self and other, and encourages new conceptions of vibrantly alive and endlessly permuting ecologies to permeate our imaginations.
Grace Grothaus
Grace Grothaus (www.gracegrothaus.com)
is an interdisciplinary computational media artist. Her practice-based
artistic research encompasses physical computing, environmental
sensing, algorithmically generated imagery, and speculative futurity.
Completed installations, performances, and public or gallery artworks
are produced at a range of scales: from city-scale interactive public
works to intimate, wearable computational speculative design devices.
For inquiries regarding this initiative, please contact:
Mark-David Hosale, Ph.D. – mdhosale@yorku.ca
Associate Professor and Chair, Computational Arts
Digital Media Program
School of Art, Media, Performance and Design
York University, Toronto
4700 Keele Street .:. 228 Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts .:. Toronto ON, M3J 1P3 Canada
http://computationalarts.ampd.yorku.ca/