Casey Gollan OS17 comes full-circle returning as Oxbow's Alumni Visiting Artist Lecturer.
Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2016 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: The CIA at Copia Napa Valley Vintners Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA (note this is the same night as the film festival so park in the lot across the street)
Along with collaborator Victoria Sobel, he is currently a 2015–17 Fellow at The New School’s Vera List Center for Art and Politics, and a Fall 2016 visiting artist at The Cooper Union School of Art.
In the face of the banality of corporate restructuring, Sobel and Gollan LARP a means of building culture that is activated, distributed, and durational. Addressing the incisive mission-creep of cultural institutions, they entertain both the inevitability of financialization, as well as the interminable possibility of resituating systems. Their recent projects include print and digital publications, a construction-themed Block Party, and a month-long community residency. Their ongoing research investigates the broad entanglement of culture, education, and finance with subjects such as the cloud, artificial intelligences, and poetics.
Gollan’s design practice — considering the intermediation of technology and everyday life — is based out of Orbital. He has written critically about design and technology for Rhizome and Poool, participated in Triple Canopy’s networked publishing intensive, and experimented with open-source administration as part of the School for Poetic Computation. Recent work includes an ongoing collaboration with design researcher Sara Hendren, director of the Adaptation + Ability Group at Olin College. Their project Engineering at Home will be included in an exhibition on the future of design at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 2017.
