the medium is the environment

Installation

the medium is the environment

by ‍Kevin Day

‍Location: VIVO Media Arts Centre

2625 Kaslo St., Vancouver

FREE, No Registration Required.

Opening Reception: May 15 | 6-9 pm

Exhibition Dates: May 16-23 | Tuesday to Sunday 12-6 pm

Artist Talk: May 17 | 2 pm

Fog-free Day: May 20

the medium is the environment is a powerful multimedia installation by Kevin Day that challenges the myth of the “cloud” and reveals the material realities behind our digital lives. Through a blend of fog downward video projection and data-driven systems the work reflects on the hidden ecological and social costs of digital technology.

While a former iteration of the project utilized the artist’s personal data of Internet usage the iteration at VIVO Media Arts utilizes the Internet usage data of the institution itself. Inviting the viewers to engage in the act of content-consumption the presence of the video is intended to activate the viewers’ digital labour and expose their participation in the attention economy. Implicating the artist the gallery and the viewers within the digital economy these two iterations of the project underscore the environmental impact of our digitized lives highlighting the materiality of something supposedly immaterial.

Audience Advisory and Accessibility Notes:

• Fog in Exhibition Area: A controlled fog is part of the exhibition installation that might affect individuals with respiratory conditions allergies or other health concerns.
• May 20 will be a fog-free day to accommodate those with sensitivities.
• Low Lighting: The studio space has low lighting which may be challenging for those with low vision.‍

About Kevin Day:

Kevin Day’s practice and research encompassing sound video graph web and interactive media installations examine contemporary art’s critical capacity in response to the current socio-political issues of digital culture negating the encoding extraction and exploitation by data colonialism and information capitalism. Informed by philosophy of technology critical theory media studies and digital materialism his research and practice question the ubiquitous logic of framing the world through information indicative of an information-based way of knowing. The works resist the extraction and abstraction of algorithmic processes through an insistence on the presence of “noise” in the information-capital complex.

Don’t miss the opening reception on May 15 at 6pm!

More info: https://www.vivomediaarts.com/programming/the-medium-is-the-environment

Photo by Oskar McCarson, the medium is the environment, Inter/Access, 2024.

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