Art and Technology

Curated by FITZ & CO · 5 exhibitions

This selection is less "art about technology" than a survey of methodologies for retaining, integrating, and refracting human-ness within the digital systems we've built, and a meditation on how art and technology converge to reflect identity as fluid and constantly shifting. Technology, as a broad concept, is not presented as a form with underlying assumptions. These artists and curators offer technology as both a medium detached from inherent meaning, as an iterative system within and outside of which we can create or regulate, and as a vast expanse for immersive contemplation. The presentations reflect a new era of technology in the art world, where its newness and esotericism are disempowered, permitting investigation into how "technology," as tools and concepts, intertwine with the human.

Exhibitions

“Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst coin "Protocol Art," an exploration inverting the algorithm itself into medium.”

Palazzo Diedo - Berggruen Arts & Culture · 'Strange Rules' coins 'Protocol Art' — an exploration that inverts the algorithm itself into medium — across three floors of Palazzo Diedo. The exhibition pairs new work by Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst (in collaboration with sub) with around twenty contributors spanning art, music, AI research, and biology — Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Joshua Citarella, Primavera De Filippi, Simon Denny with Venkatesh Rao, Stephanie Dinkins, Fabien Giraud, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Ho Tzu Nyen, Ayoung Kim, Agnieszka Kurant, biologist Michael Levin, New Models, Trevor Paglen, Philippe Parreno, Lorenzo Senni, Avery Singer, AI researcher Kenneth Stanley, terra0, and He Zike — curated by Dryhurst, Herndon, and Hans Ulrich Obrist with Adriana Rispoli for Berggruen.

“A monologue in Li's signature pseudo-educational style that probes software as a service and AI image generation to challenge our habits of perception.”

Palazzo delle Prigioni · A monologue in Li Yi-Fan's signature pseudo-educational style probing software-as-a-service and AI image generation to challenge our habits of perception, staged at Palazzo delle Prigioni — Venice's old Doge's prison — for the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.

“Natasha Tontey convenes ritual, myth, and the optics of surveillance in a meditation on what it means to remain sovereign; over territory, over knowledge, over the body itself.”

Ateneo Veneto · Natasha Tontey convenes ritual, myth, and the optics of surveillance in a meditation on what it means to remain sovereign — over territory, over knowledge, over the body itself. Co-commissioned by LAS Art Foundation and Amos Rex, the installation reimagines the story of Len Karamoy — a 1950s female combatant in Indonesia's CIA-backed Permesta movement — through video, sound, light, and sculpture, drawing on quantum ghost imaging, LiDAR, photogrammetry, and thermal cameras alongside Minahasan symbolism.

“The closing chapter of Fondazione In Between Art Film's trilogy on the experience of sensation, referencing the phenomena of extreme light and heat.”

Complesso dell'Ospedaletto · The closing chapter of Fondazione In Between Art Film's 'Trilogy of Uncertainties' — following Penumbra (2022) and Nebula (2024) — Canicula gathers eight new site-specific video commissions referencing the phenomena of extreme light and heat. Works by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Massimo D'Anolfi and Martina Parenti, Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, Janis Rafa, P. Staff, Wang Tuo, Yuyan Wang, and Maya Watanabe are staged across the Church of Santa Maria dei Derelitti, the frescoed concert room, the old pharmacy, and the modern retirement home of the Ospedaletto.

“The Vatican interprets curator Koyo Kouoh's vision of a Biennale tuned to a quieter frequency through the concept of listening as conceived by Saint Hildegard of Bingen.”

Holy See Pavilion · The Vatican Pavilion interprets a Biennale tuned to a quieter frequency through the concept of listening as conceived by Saint Hildegard of Bingen, with a 24-artist roster — including FKA Twigs, Brian Eno, Patti Smith, Jim Jarmusch, Dev Hynes, Laraaji, Kali Malone, and Terry Riley — making 'sonic prayers' for the medieval mystic.

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