exhibition

17/05/2022

Harvard Art Museums

Post Networks at Living by Protocol Exibition

Living by Protocol queries the contemporary reflections of artists and artistic researchers on, with, and by social media. While scientific research deepens the knowledge of a specific domain, art and artistic research has the power to transfer questions, problems, and opportunities into wider spectrums of society. The nine-grid structured monitors within Harvard Art Museum’s Lightbox Gallery become a lens into untold stories of social databases and networked culture. In the Spring of 2022, metaLAB will be hosting this 7-week exhibition showcasing contemporary works by international artists that deal with critical topics related to social media. The show will commence with a week of talks, discussions, and other hybrid programming. Social media will be simultaneously the topic, platform, and space of experimentation. The use of social media has become a daily routine for billions of people throughout the last decade. The problems and possibilities of this new media reality were reflected and questioned by artists long before its popularization. Cyberfeminism and Net Art laid a foundation in the digital realm as an artistic medium in the early 1990s. Today, contemporary art is almost unthinkable without the network effects of Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook. This exhibition will run for seven weeks from May 17-July 3, 2022 at the Lightbox Gallery at Harvard Art Museums. The lineup of artists participating in this exhibition includes: Manja Ebert, Ben Grosser, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Mirabelle Jones, Mimi Onuoha, Kim Albrecht, Sarah Newman & Jad Esber, and Winnie Soon.