POLYREAL/DESIGNING FOR MULTIPLE REALITIES
CONCEPT
What exactly is the future of art and design when the conjured image and created object stand in for each other? Artists and designers are increasingly reaching across and through the divide between virtual and actual and experimenting at a dizzying speed.
Much has been made of the pioneering forays into augmented reality and digitally-customized design over the past decade. So many experiences have shifted online, as we learned to function primarily in a virtual space during the pandemic and more recently as we collectively dipped toes into the frontiers offered by NFTs. Not surprisingly, the logical next step is to fully engage audiences digitally, meeting them not IRL but in new meta spaces.
Whether this motivation exists solely to expand audiences and increase brand identity or, more nobly, to reduce waste, offer a more democratic approach to design or imagine a future without the constraints of the human body and limitations of our physical world, artists and designers are toggling between worlds on each side of the screen. The resulting work implicates the viewer in the dynamic shifting from one kind of reality (virtual) to another (physical) or straddling both.
CURATORIAL TEAM
c2-curatorsquared is a curatorial partnership between Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox, founded in 2008. They have organized some 25 exhibitions working with 12 institutions, and their exhibitions have traveled to 28 institutions. Their work focuses on contemporary art and design and the zone where these definitions challenge each other.
Dutch Invertuals is a design studio that aims to inspire positive change with design, unconstrained by ‘the way things are done.’ They bundle creative thinking and initiate projects to navigate the unknown. From their Eindhoven-based studio, they turn research into tangible products and experiences.Together with their international collective, Dutch Invertuals initiates annual research projects exploring emergent cultural and social themes to understand and envision the world of tomorrow.
ARTISTS/DESIGNERS WHOSE WORK EXEMPLIFIES THIS APPROACHALTERRAGE; Jonathan Anderson for JW Anderson; ANREALAGE; DOTTOD Collective; EdHV; Fabricant; Teresa Fernandez-Pello; Alicia Framis; Ying Gao; Bart Hess; Audrey Large; Ferruccio Laviani; MSCHF; Liza Nelson; NORMALS; Evan Roth; Schimmel & Schweikle; Unfold
INTERESTED IN COLLABORATING AND/OR PARTICIPATING
Ginger Duggan c2 curator ginger@curatorsquared.com 407.277.2565
Judy Fox, c2 curator judy@curatorsquared.com 617.640.4037
Wendy Plomp, founder/director, Dutch Invertuals wendy@dutchinvertuals.nl
+31 (0)40 – 7502401