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6:30 PM-8:30 PM
Art und Weise: Beyond the Aperture
Artist Talk/Performance | Artists in Conversation: With Victoria Keddie and Liz Flyntz
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Goethe-Institut New York, New York, NY
- Language English
- Price Free
- Part of series: Art und Weise: Artists in Conversation
Moving beyond traditional optical recording, Keddie's work reveals how contemporary surveillance and information systems generate new forms of seeing and knowing that transcend human visual perception. Through projects like Electrona in Crystallo Fluenti and Pshal P'shaw, she transforms invisible streams of information—from orbital debris trajectories to neural language patterns—into immersive sonic and visual experiences that make tangible the hidden architectures of our data-mediated world.
In conversation with curator and media historian Liz Flyntz, Keddie will discuss her methodologies for translating machine-gathered data into experiential artworks. The talk involves a live performance demonstrating these transformative processes in real time.
Works of Focus:
1. Electrona in Crystallo Fluenti (2022-2023): This work demonstrates the transition beyond optical surveillance through its real-time tracking and sonifi cation of space debris. The piece creates an immersive environment where orbital data becomes an experiential soundscape, making tangible the usually invisible layers of technological debris that encircle our planet. Its exploration of coordinates, proximity, and variance in Low Earth Orbit directly engages with questions of machine perception beyond traditional visual recording.
2. Sensory Feedback (2022-2023): This multi-channel sound installation, created for KØS Museum, offers a case study in architectural sensing and environmental data collection. Through exploring Ant Farm's "Art Building" at Antioch College, Keddie used microphones and environmental sensors to capture the building's sonic and atmospheric properties, creating an archaeological portrait through non-visual means.
3. Pshal P'shaw (2024): As her most recent work, this 12-channel sound installation represents a sophisticated synthesis of machine learning and phonetic data. Its exploration of neural networks and language processing systems highlights the causal relationships between phonetic evolution, technological interventions, and the evolving, uncontainable human experience of phonetic sounding. The work's transformation of phoneme data into spatial sound demonstrates how machine perception operates at levels beyond human sensory capabilities.
Participants
Victoria Keddie
Victoria Keddie is a multidisciplinary artist delving into sound, video, installation, and performance. Her work uncovers hidden narratives within ordinary artifacts and spaces, emphasizing their role in shaping our collective story. The examination of acoustic phenomena and language are recurring themes in her work. Keddie’s current projects navigate the acoustic complexity of phonology and the sounding of speculative architecture.
For over a decade, Keddie was Co-director of E.S.P. TV, exploring the televisual medium for performance. Keddie has performed and exhibited internationally. Recent fellowships include the NYSCA/NYFA for Music/Sound (2022), the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (2023), and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Music Fellowship (2024). Keddie was a highlighted speaker and performer at the Salon Sophie Charlotte, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, January 2025. Video works are distributed through Lightcone (FR) and The Filmmakers Co-op (US). Sound works are released by Raster Media (DE), Chaikin Records (US), and Fridman Gallery (NYC/US).
Liz Flyntz
Liz Flyntz is a designer, curator, and artist whose practice investigates how design and documentation shape human experience. Her work operates at the intersection of speculative design, archival research, and collaborative practice, often employing historical materials to think through complex systems and envision alternative futures. Her writing about early video art, surveillance technologies, experimental architecture, and media history has appeared in publications including Afterimage, The Creators Project, the Journal of Utopian Studies, and Intercourse Magazine. She co-edited and co-wrote The Present is the Form of All Life: The Time Capsules of Ant Farm and LST (Pioneer Works Press), a critical examination of Ant Farm's architectural and time-based works that explores how radical artists envisioned technological futures. She is principal at Program, a design studio focused on interaction and information design projects, and teaches media art and design at Johns Hopkins University.
Location
30 Irving Place
New York, NY 10003
USA
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