Artist Talk & Happy Hour: In Conversation with Lorna Mills @ Gray Area

Art Bae Event Link On Sunday, July 12, Gray Area will host an evening of conversation with Lorna Mills , one of th e defining figures of net.art and moving-image culture online . Join us for a cocktail mixer, where Mills will be in dialogue with Gray Area Associate Curator Wade Wallerstein discussing the origins of her practice, memetic influence in visual culture, and the general “dumpster fire” nature of the internet these days. Mills's practice speaks directly to the questions at the heart of Gray Area's missi on: how art ists metabolize emerging technology, and how the cultures that form online become material for critical, generative work . Whether you've followed her work since the GIF's first golden age or are encountering it for the first time, this is a rare chance to hear from one of the medium's most singular voices in person. About Lorna Mills: For more than three decades, Mills has built a practice that tr eats the in ternet as raw materi al. Trawling forums, image boards, and the stranger corners of the web for found footage, Mills cuts, loops, and recombines these serendipitous nuggets into dense, kaleidoscopic GIF collages. The results are by turns absurd, tender, profane, and hypnotic: a portrait of online culture rendered in GIF format. Mills began exhibiting in the early 1990s as a founding member of Toronto's Red Hea d Gallery, working across photography, painting, and Super 8 film before turning to digital animation. Since then, her work has been presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hayward Gallery in London, the Museum of the Moving Image, Transmediale, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and reached one of the largest audiences imaginable when her animation Mountain Light/Time took over the screens of Times Square as part of the Midnight Moment series. Her moving-image collages hold the particular and the universal in constant oscillation, often manifesting as oblique critiques of consumption, nationalism, and acceleration disguised as pure, chaotic delight. Lorna Mills is a Canadian net.art and new media arti st known fo r her d igital anim at ions, video s, GIFs, and restrained offline installation work. Her use of GIFs are gathered through the dark net which includes 4chan, pornfails, and Russian domains. By working with the pre-existed materials, her works critique consumption, representation, accelerationism, and nationalism as they are expressed and exaggerated through Internet culture. Mills’ work has been exhibited throughout the world since the 90s. Recent exhibitions include “Dreamlands” at the Whitney Museum, NY; “Yellowwhirlaway” at the Museum of the Moving Image, NY; “The House and the sky” at Hayward Gallery, London and “The Great Code” at Transfer Gallery, NY, among others. ―――――――――― SF Stuff To Do Do not edit this event! changes will be overwritten