Hybrid Futures
Land, Genomics, and Technology
Danielle Siembieda
With contributions from Robin Lasser, F3 & Associates, John Randolph, Victor Etienne,
Raj Banjeer, John Sarter, Eckhart Beatty, Alexandra Dementieva, and Adam Zaretsky.
May 11th - July 13th, 2024
Opening Reception: Sat, May 11th, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Closing Reception: Sat. July 13th, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Jean Gnome, Danielle Siembieda, 2023, video still
Exploring the entanglement of humankind, nature, and technology through cyborg-eco-feminist science-fiction, rooted in real discoveries.
Events
Transgenomic Multi-Organisms
With morpheus personality Jean Gnome (Danielle Siembieda) in conversation with a Kquaanian–human hybrid (Alexandra Dementieva) and eMutagen-X (Adam Zaretsky)
Co-presented by The Chimæric Mind and the CYLAND MediaArtLab
July 5th, 2024
9:00 AM San Francisco, 12:00 PM New York, 6:00 PM Europe (18:00)
Live on https://www.instagram.com/tttelematiccc/
About the Show
Danielle Siembieda employs emerging technologies as a new media artist to explore the sublime entanglement of humankind, nature, and technology, as revealed specifically by the climate crisis and recent radical innovations in science. Her work is a form of cyborg-eco-feminist, science-fiction, rooted in real discoveries, that works to articulate new hybrid forms of living and being at these liminal borders. It is interdisciplinary and collaborative, an engaged form of social practice, which draws upon diverse voices and expertise while making direct, practical contributions to civic life.
Her Refuge in Refuse: Homesteading in Art and Culture Project, included in this show, is a multi-disciplinary archive, which combines augmented reality, sound, sculpture, video, photography, and 3D imagery - along with the tools of urban planning - to document an historical community of people, who homesteaded for decades on a decommissioned shoreline dump in Albany, CA. The work speaks to the plight of displaced people, the collaborative invention in their resilience under marginalized conditions, and the model they provide for living at the boundary between nature and society in a state of crisis.
The works in Siembieda’s Post People Possibilities series combine bio art, maker tech, and toys to explore the synthetic potential at the intersections between art and politics, science and fantasy, nature and technology. The works are informed by an understanding that what we build now sets the foundations for how we survive in the future. Our state of nature will be determined by the politics of our social forms, the truths revealed by our knowledge and understanding, and our capacity to re-imagine our relationship with our environment. Lizard Lab presents a Jurraisic Park fantasy of dinosaurs, artificially restored from extinction and running amok. Cooperative Co-Existence depicts humankind living in conjunction with natural phenomena: magnets, ice, animals. Siembieda’s digital avatar Jean Gnome, playfully explores the fluid nature of identity in the age of social media and genomics.
Finally, The Flyline presents the architectural model of a regenerative micro-grid renewable energy system, walking path, and performance platform, designed for Fly Ranch, the future site of a Burning Man community village. The piece combines art, architecture, landscape design, and social practice to imagine possible ways of living with conscious attention to our interdependence with the natural world.
Cooperative Coexistance, from the series,
Post People Possibilities: SciFi Art about The Anthropogene using bio art, maker technology and toys, Danielle Siembieda, 2023
The Flyline,
A concept design of the Burning Man Fly Ranch Project, Danielle Siembieda with John Randolph (Architect), Victor Etienne (Architectural Designer), John Sarter (Green Builder), Raj Banjeer (Solar Engineer), Eckhart Beatty (Energy Expert), 2022
Mad Mark Point Cloud, from the Refuge in Refuse Series,
Homesteading in Art and Culture is a collaboration with Robin Lasser and other artists about the displaced community at the Albany Bulb, Albany, CA, Danielle Siembieda, 2022
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Siembieda is an Alter Eco-Artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area Siembieda works at the intersection of community, emerging technologies, and the environment. She is also an artist in residence at the University of Santa Cruz Genomics Institute home of the Genome Browser through UCSC's Arts Research Open Lab. Siembieda has an MFA in Digital Media Art at San Jose State University at the CADRE Laboratory for New Media with a focus on green technology and sustainable materials. As the founder of Art Inspector: Saving the Earth by Changing Art, Siembieda has turned this social practice project into a business, acquiring funding from Silicon Valley Energy Watch and working with the City of San Francisco Department of Environment to help artists work healthier and safer. She defines her art at “Alter-Eco Art” bridging Eco-Art practice and New Media at the intersection of environment, technology, and community. Her work has been presented globally including the 01SJ Biennial in the heart of Silicon Valley, the National Gallery in Copenhagen and the Education Center of the National Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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