Exhibition

Curated by Dr Bill Balaskas, Director of Research, Business and Innovation, School of Arts, Kingston University

Stanley Picker Gallery
Opening: Sunday 4th September, 17:30

The DRHA 2022 exhibition interrogates the parallel emergencies that define our post-pandemic world, and the protagonist role that digital technologies and science play within it. Inspired by the title of this year’s conference, “Digital Sustainability: From Resilience to Transformation”, the artworks featured in the exhibition consider existing challenges while, also, inviting us to speculate on what might come next. Using a variety of digital and analogue media, the artists of DRHA 2022 explore issues and ideas that vividly reflect this time of profound change for humanity and our planet: climate crisis; post-digital materiality; the human body within and beyond virtual milieus; non-human worlds; social media narratives and narratologies; post-apocalyptic aesthetics and catastrophic spectacles; data visualisation and biases; AI and corporate culture. Collectively, the artworks included in the exhibition suggest that although new models of creating and co-existing are rapidly emerging, moving from resilience to transformation may only be achieved through developing a holistic view of our relationship with digital technologies; namely, through understanding both their dormant potentialities and their multiple black boxes.

Participating Artists:

• Pat Badani
• Gianluca Balla
• Jennifer Gradecki and Derek Curry
• Marika Grasso
• Irini Kalaitzidi
• Sam Kaufman
• Kat Mustatea
• Triantafyllia Ntouroupi
• El Putnam
• Toni Sant and Enrique Tabone
• Varvara & Mar