Research Catalog

Title

Neural swamp / Martine Syms ; the Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media ; edited by Irene Calderoni and Amanda Sroka ; edited by Kathleen Krattenmaker ; translation by Marguerite Shore.

Author

Syms, Martine

Publication

• New Haven ; London : Published in association with Yale University Press, [2022]
• Philadelphia, PA : Publishing Department, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Calderoni, Irene, 1976-
• Sroka, Amanda
• Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, host institution.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, host institution.
• Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media, commissioning body.

Description

73 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Martine Syms's Neural Swamp is an immersive installation that reflects the artist's ongoing research into machine systems that erase or exploit Black bodies, voices, and narratives. This multichannel video presentation, created using AI technologies, reveals its three protagonists through their reading of a continually evolving script constructed in real time by a text-generating algorithm. Presented in an environment that combines elements of a stage set and golf course, Neural Swamp engages ideas of celebrity, sports, cinema, and surveillance to explore our complex relationship with technology, ourselves, and one another. Essays by Irene Calderoni, Christina Sharpe, and Amanda Sroka offer in-depth analysis into this commission, placing it within the context of Syms's body of work and within a broader cultural and art historical framework. A two-part visual essay by Syms illuminates the specific approach to images and design that characterizes her practice"--Page 4 of cover.

Uniform Title

Neural swamp (Exhibition catalog)

Alternative Title

• Neural swamp (Exhibition catalog)
• Martine Syms: Neural swamp
• Martine Syms : Neural swamp

Subject

• Syms, Martine
• Syms, Martine > Exhibitions
• Video installations (Art) > Exhibitions
• Time-based art > Exhibitions
• Race in art > Exhibitions
• African Americans in art > Exhibitions
• Video installations (Art)
• Time-based art
• Race in art
• African Americans in art

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Martine Syms: Neural Swamp / The Future Fields Commission, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, November 5, 2021-March 27, 2022, Philadelphia Museum of Art, May 14-October 30, 2022"--Page opposite title page.
• "The second volume in a series documenting works produced for the Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media"--Page 4 of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Timothy Rub and Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudento -- A world of screens / Amanda Sroka -- Working and reference images -- Staying in it / Christina Sharpe -- 3D renderings -- A viva voce = With the living voice / Irene Calderoni ; translated from Italian by Marguerite Shore -- Installation views.

Call Number

Sc E 23-486

ISBN

• 9780876332979
• 0876332971

LCCN

2022933897

OCLC

1295100635

Author

Syms, Martine, artist.

Title

Neural swamp / Martine Syms ; the Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media ; edited by Irene Calderoni and Amanda Sroka ; edited by Kathleen Krattenmaker ; translation by Marguerite Shore.

Publisher

New Haven ; London : Published in association with Yale University Press, [2022]

Manufacturer

Philadelphia, PA : Publishing Department, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Biography

Martine Syms (American, born 1988) is based in Los Angeles. Her interdisciplinary and research-based approach bridges the mediums of film, performance, installation, and publishing. Weaving together ideas of the Black radical tradition, Afrofuturism, and Cyberfeminist theory, Syms's work employs avant-garde technologies to explore the ways in which identity and power are constructed, performed, packaged, and consumed. Through the Future Fields Commission, Syms is extending her multifaceted approach towards new and increasingly experimental techniques to investigate representations of Blackness across generations and technologies. Irene Calderoni is chief curator at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin. Amanda Sroka is associate curator of contemporary art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Christina Sharpe is a writer and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University, Toronto.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Calderoni, Irene, 1976- editor.

Sroka, Amanda, editor.

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, host institution.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, host institution.

Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media, commissioning body.

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-486