May 29 – June 2, 2019
2019년 5월 29일 – 6월 2일
gallery G, CICA Museum
Small Gestures
Small Gestures is an ongoing project that maps, models, and reproduces social experiences. Hand movements become motion paths, which become digital geometry, which become miniatures printed in bright plastic. As models they are both abstract and indexical records of personal connection.
Digital culture mediates our embodied relationships, and VR in particular is an isolating technology. In Small Gestures it becomes a social technology, recording actions such as handshakes and hugs. Fleeting and intangible moments are digitized and made physical as playful and delicate objects. A high five held in one’s hand proposes a new relationship to social experience. In a time of receding public kindness, a small gesture can have powerful implications.
Tyler Calkin is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. He received his MFA in Art and Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts, and his work has been exhibited and performed in art and educational institutions around the world, including Cercle Blanc Gallery in Berlin, studio1.1 in London, Tsinghua University in Beijing, Tec de Monterrey in Mexico, Harvestworks in New York City, Centre for the Living Arts in Mobile, AL, and University of Southern California in Los Angeles. As an educator, Calkin has taught in the Art and Technology program and The Center for Integrated Media at CalArts, and is currently the head of Digital Media at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Tyler Calkin “Small Gesture 02” (2017-2019)