Art & Tech Series: Nancy Baker Cahill on Unflattening the Irresolvable

In this episode, Kim and Patricia revisit our ongoing Art & Tech series with transdisciplinary artist Nancy Baker Cahill! Nancy walks us through the origins and inflection points within her artistic practice, spanning paper drawings, virtual reality projects, and monumental augmented reality exhibitions. Our trio discusses some of Nancy’s key literary influences, the animal experience of motherhood, and an artist’s cannibalization of her archive. We also dive into complicated questions of resource use in AR artworks and the translation and transmutation of creative forces. This is a sparkling conversation you won’t want to miss!

Mentions:

LA Forum for Design and Architecture; 

LA Metro Art; 

Rebecca Mendez; 

Jamie Scholnick; 

Shinique Smith; 

Kim Schoenstadt; 

Kentura Davis; 

Nancy Baker Cahill; 

4th Wall app; 

The Art Newspaper; 

Frieze; 

The New York Times; 

Los Angeles Review of Books; 

Nam June Paik Art Center; 

October Magazine; 

The Berggruen Institute; 

LACMA Art+Tech Lab; 

Infinity Festival; 

Harvard Institute MetaLAB; 

Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; 

Whitney Museum; 

Georgia Museum of Art; 

Smart Museum; 

RFC Art Collection; 

Winthrop University Collection; 

Hex Collection; 

Virtual Reality; 

Mixed Reality; 

Augmented Reality; 

Carole Ann Klonarides; 

Pasadena Museum of California Art; 

Drive Studios; 

Shaking Earth Digital; 

Clarice Lispector; 

Neoconcretistas/Neo-Concrete movement; 

Franz Kafka; 

Charlie James Gallery; 

Shana Nys Dambrot; 

Gene Youngblood; 

Jean Baudrillard; 

The Hammer Museum; 

Christiane Paul; 

Walter Annenberg Lecture; 

Machine learning; 

“Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism” by Yanis Varoufakis; 

“Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power” by Byung-Chul Han; 

New York University Tandon School of Engineering; 

Carla Gannis; 

Zay Amsbury; 

“Unflattening” by Nick Sousanis; 

Len Lye; 

MASS MoCA.