Artists Devon Baur and Peter Wu+ will host a conversation and virtual tour on Thursday, Aug. 12, moderated by Armory Center for the Arts interns Shardé Alexander and James Morris.
The artists will discuss emerging art technologies and present past, upcoming, and ongoing works, including Baur’s upcoming exhibit, “Smell. Print.” at the Architecture and Design Museum and Wu+’s virtual exhibit, “Freeport.”
Baur and Wu+ will talk about how one will see this new world of art transform over the next decade. The virtual event begins at 6 p.m.
The program is the culmination of the Armory’s summer internships in association with the Getty Marrow Undergraduate Internship program. This summer interns Shardé Alexander and James Morris joined Armory during the reopening journey for the “Alison Saar: of Aether and Earthe” exhibition. The interns assisted on various projects on their way to learning the ins and outs of working at a nonprofit community arts organization.
Wu+ generates artworks and immersive environments using animation and rendering software, projection mapping, 3D printing, and machine learning. He draws upon the genres of speculative and science fiction and examines how technology can alter and influence perceptions of identity, reality, and history.
In 2020, Wu+ founded EPOCH, an artist-run virtual experiment that functions as an inclusive community-building platform inviting established and emerging artists working in both digital and analog mediums to participate. Being primarily artist-centric, EPOCH has established itself as a virtual destination that challenges the status quo with its critical and innovative approach to curation and exhibition building.
Wu+ was awarded the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship and the Public Art Division commission in 2019 with Los Angeles World Airports Arts Exhibition Program to be completed in 2022. Wu+ received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and his BFA from the University of Windsor. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Baur’s career has been dedicated to the collision of art and immersive technology. As a Ph.D. student at UCLA, she works to interweave rigorous research with creative practice. She is currently an artist-in-residence in Stanford University’s Electrical Engineering Department, where she has spent three years developing work at the intersection of multisensory interfaces, virtual reality, and performance. Some of this work will be demonstrated in the forthcoming exhibition “Smell. Print.” at the A&D Museum in Los Angeles.
Baur has worked in the VR/AR industry for more than five years. She served as the director of the Topanga Film Institute, where she revitalized the annual festival with a world-class VR program – dubbed as “one of the coolest festivals in the world” by Filmmaker Magazine – and was featured in the Los Angeles Times as an inspiring female entrepreneur.
To join the webinar, visit www.armoryarts.org/schedule/
For more information, call (626) 792-5101.
