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Future U: Patricia Piccinini and Evelyn Tsitas in conversation
An Art & Design Salon presented by RMIT Culture and RMIT Gallery.
Future U explores how we as humans navigate the complexity of technological change in the twenty-first century. Creativity, love and intelligence – the aspects of life that make us human – are increasingly under threat as machines reveal themselves to be capable of surpassing human capacity.
In this Art & Design Salon, curator Evelyn Tsitas and featured artist Patricia Piccinini explore how their work, and the work highlighted in Future U, offers glimpses into the dreams, speculations and nightmares of a future that is both unlimited and unruly – one which embraces the possibilities of a body and a world that extends beyond our current limitations.
Future U will be open to attendees of the Art & Design Salon until 6pm on Tuesday 22 February, we encourage you to view the exhibition before attending the talk.
Where: RMIT Building 80, Level 1 Cinema 445 Swanston Street Melbourne, VIC 3000 [map]
When: Tuesday 22 February, 6.30-8pm
How Much: Free, but capacity is limited and RSVP is essential here.
About the speakers
Dr Evelyn Tsitas is a writer, researcher and curator with a strong background in journalism and communications. She worked at the Herald Sun newspaper as a senior journalist and arts editor and at RMIT University as a Communications Strategist and Engagement Manager. Evelyn has had much success curating large-scale thematic art exhibitions that are anchored in scholarship (My Monster, Pleasure, and Future U at RMIT Gallery), and has produced several exhibition catalogues as well as publications, books, plays, libretti and critically acclaimed short stories.
Patricia Piccinini is one of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary artists. She is best known for her hybrid, figurative sculptures rendered in silicone and hair. Piccinini was Australia’s representative at the 2003 Venice Biennale. Since the early 1990s, her interdisciplinary practice—surreal drawings, hybrid animals and vehicular creatures—has questioned the way that contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human.
Image caption: Patricia Piccinini, Teenage Metamorphosis, 2017, silicone, fibreglass, human hair, found objects. Image courtesy of the artist, Scott Lawrie Gallery (Auckland); Tolarno Galleries (Melbourne); Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (Sydney); Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco).
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