"Programmed Papers" Opening Reception

Join us for the opening reception of "Programmed Paper", an exhibition featuring work created by artist Christina Corfield as part of Book Arts’ 2023 Studio Artist Residency program. Corfield is an artist and media scholar whose work turns to older and more analog forms of media to push against the fetishizing of new technologies. Her media archeology projects present histories of media and technology that bring together and overlay old and new forms, asking us to think about the way those forms shape our thinking around the technologies we rely on every day. She is especially interested in how we build relationships to new technologies through our interactions with analog media, including paper. In "Programmed Paper", Corfield investigates the shaping and folding of paper as a form of programming, i.e., telling the paper what to do so it behaves in the way you want it to. During her residency at Book Arts, she is producing a series of “programmed” objects from paper which have been letter pressed with text and images using conductive ink to allude to computation. Corfield’s series of paper Victorian peep boxes will also be exhibited as part of Programmed Paper. The peep box was a virtual reality technology from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that generated realistic optical effects. Normally used to promote the sentiments and values of nationalism and Imperialism through wondrous scenes of “exotic” faraway lands, spectacular tourist sites, and rousing feats of engineering, Corfield re-purposes the peep box to instead celebrate and visualize contemporary scenes of political resistance, civil disobedience, and pressing social and environmental issues, from the Flint, Michigan Water Crisis to the Standing Rock protests. "Programmed Paper" suggests that older forms of media – particularly those we can make by hand ourselves – still hold the potential to powerfully transmit arresting images while symbolizing tactics of resistance to a culture more and more reliant on organizations that control the internet and those that control the hardware (and software) necessary to access it The opening reception will be held on Friday, March 10th from 5:00-8:00 p.m.. An artist talk will take place at 6:00 p.m.

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