'Enmeshed' at South Bend Museum of Art explores digital influences
SOUTH BEND — An art exhibit with eight pieces at the South Bend Museum of Art explores how digital art and the reliance on technology alters our experience of the world. On display through April 3, it draws on works by seven artists, titled “Enmeshed: Our Changing Relationship With Space and Time in a World of Digital Interdependence.”
It’s organized by Thomas Cornell, teaching scholar in the art, art history and design department at the University of Notre Dame. Among the pieces:
A large digital print, “Agriiborz,” created in 2009 by European artist Nick Ervinck, looks like a 3D tangle of black and gold arteries, but you get the mixed sense of a cyborg, plants and animals.
On another wall, music mixes with projected images where a series of sculptural objects blend into a verdant forest setting. Titled “Lush — Spring 2022 Campaign,” it’s by Timothy Earl Neill, a Notre Dame alumnus who now works with the FanLab at the University of Texas at Arlington.
And only when someone steps near the 2012 creation, “resistance,” its electric motor flaps white bird-like wings, a work by Ryan Buyssens, assistant professor of digital media and art at New College of Florida.
A virtual panel discussion with several of the artists will be held at 1 p.m. March 8; the link will be posted at southbendart.org. A public reception will be from 5 to 8 p.m. April 1. Both events are free.
SBMA is located at 120 S. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Hours are noon to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays.
Admission is free.
For more information, call 574-235-9102 or visit southbendart.org.
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