In the midst of all the horror and hope, if you wish for a moment’s distraction on Jan 20, please join Heather Dewey- Hagborg for her online opening of a new virtual exhibition “Watson’s Ghost” for NYU Abu Dhabi Art gallery with co-curated with director Maya Allison “not in, of, along, or relating to a line.” The exhibition, designed specifically to be viewed on mobile devices, examines the mutability of identity through and with new technologies. It will be live and several of the artists will join to give brief talks and to socialize including Addie Wagenknecht, Cao Fei, Eva and Franco Mattes, Lee Blalock, Maryam Al Hamra, micha cárdenas, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian, Sophia Al-Maria, and Zach Blas.
not in, of, along, or relating to a line
NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery
Jan 20 – July 10, 2021
Online Opening: January 20, 2021 at 6:30pm GMT+4 | 9:30am EST
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Watson’s Ghost is a triptych of genetic portraits complicate the legacy of scientist James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and one of the first people to publicly publish their genome. The installation consists of two 3d printed portraits which bracket a holographic video animation of a face which morphs through 80 different possible interpretations of Watson’s face, generated from his DNA data. This exhibit will accompany a large scale video work How Do You See Me? which premiered at The Photographers Gallery in London last fall. The work cycles through a series of thousands of adversarial self portraits which probe the structure of facial recognition systems.
