Dark Fringe,” an upcoming multi-room new-media installation being brought to life with the help of curator Lumi Tan and Performance Space, a non-profit arts organization that raises interdisciplinarity to another level. In its essence, the work explores the parallels between the scientific tools that detect gravitational waves and the ways that transgender individuals sense, interpret and embody states of flux and transformation.
Max Isi and Jules Gimbrone approach sound from different directions. Isi is an astrophysicist at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute who studies gravitational waves (like sound waves, but rippling through the fabric of space-time) made by colliding black holes. These waves can tell us about the fundamental nature of the universe. Gimbrone is a visual and sonic artist whose primary modality, “Trans-Sensing,” highlights how transgender people and individuals outside the dominant culture intuitively navigate the world through unique ways of sensing and experiencing society’s complexities.
Join Isi, Gimbrone, and Tan as they sit down for a conversation that delves into deep questions. What does it mean to represent the imperceptible? And how can tools of science and art help us pick up on signals we can use to interpret the ungraspable, whether in space-time or within our own identities?
| A Signal in the Noise Doors Open: 5:30 p.m. In Conversation: 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Reception: 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. RSVP Eventbrite: Link |