Media Gallery Section B, CICA Museum
June 25 – 29, 2025
2025.6.25 – 29
Point of Entry
Our creative practice explores how advancements in technology intersect with human perception and the natural world. It is concerned with the interaction between our natural and rapidly emerging virtual environment, and we are interested in how conscious we are of the changes that occur while immersed in this new space. Through digital, analog and AI processes, our work involves converting three-dimensional forms into drawings, creating a place where subtle variation evolves as the hand is gradually separated from the work. Ultimately, this reciprocal interaction creates confusion between what is digitally oriented versus handcrafted. Our work presents the intersection between the natural and virtual as a perceivable environment, one that is familiar but also distinct from both interpretations of reality. Humanity has reached a place of rapid technological maturation, and we have arrived at a position where the future contains boundless opportunities and immeasurable consequences. We each enter this coplanar environment at definable points, but we reach outward into the entanglement of virtual reality.
Joey Tigert is a multi-media artist and educator from Nashville, Tennessee. He received a BFA in Painting with a minor in Graphic Design from Middle Tennessee State University in 2004, and he earned his MFA in 2D Studio Art from Southern Illinois University in 2015. His work has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally, and he teaches as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Auburn University.
Joe Ren is a multimedia artist, designer, and educator. He is an assistant professor in Digital Media at California State University Bakersfield. He is also a co-founder / chief designer at Expose Art and a rotating-term vice-chair of the Executive Committee at the Association of Chinese Artists in American Academia (ACAAA). For the past few years, he has exhibited his works nationally and internationally in America, Sweden, Finland, South Korea, and China. His research and articles have been published in China, England, and America such as, Fusion + Evolution – Teaching and Learning of Design, New Media Art, International Academic Forum on Individualized Education of Art and Design in International Field of Vision, Chinese Literature Today, etc.
