For this Artists at Work, ISCP artist-in-residence Coralie Vogelaar will present a performative lecture in development that reflects on new gestures, movements, and interactions in contemporary society. The presentation will be followed by a conversation between the artist and Chiarina Chen, independent curator and writer. They will discuss Vogelaar’s work and how it relates to ideas about magic, machine psychology, noise versus signal, and interconnectedness. 

Coralie Vogelaar is an interdisciplinary artist who integrates social and behavioral science in her practice. Working with experts from various disciplines including data analysis, choreography, and sound design, Vogelaar creates performances, videos, and multimedia installations that investigate the relationship between human and machine by applying machine logic to the human body. She has exhibited work at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands; HeK (House of Electronic Arts), Switzerland; The Photographers’ Gallery, England; ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany; and WhiteBox, New York, among others.

Chiarina Chen is a New York-based independent curator and writer. From a psychology and art history background, her curatorial praxis explores diasporic conditions and posthuman subjectivity. She has produced international projects that merge art and emotional technology and range from mixed media, sound installations, cyborg performances, and experimental theater. Chen has curated exhibitions including Poetics of Inquiry: How to Stay with Trouble, at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusets, The Tale of Errantry at Chain Theater, New York, Collecting Anxiety, presented in multiple venues, Is This Intimacy? at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Krinzinger Projekte, both in Vienna, Magic Back to Town at Cyborg Foundation, and the Posthuman Research Center, New York University, both in New York, and The Wasteland of the Future, at the Shanghai Himalayas Museum and Art and Philosophy Center, Fudan University, Shanghai. 

This program is supported by Mondriaan Fund; Hartfield Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; James Rosenquist Foundation; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.
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Accessibility information: Please note that the entrance to ISCP has seven steps and a ramp, which is ADA compliant. There are seven artist studios and one exhibition space which can be accessed on the first floor of ISCP. There is an accessible bathroom on the first floor at the end of the hallway, up one step, where the artist studios are located. To access the second floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 22 steps. The second floor has 22 artist and curator studios, one exhibition space, and a lounge where remarks by our guest speaker will take place. To access the third floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 24 steps. The third floor has five artist and curator studios. ISCP  can access a freight elevator to bring visitors between the first and second floors on request.

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