Emerson Contemporary

EL Putnam: PseudoRandom

January 25 - March 26, 2023

The exhibition explores aesthetic encounters through digital performance by implicating the artist, technology, and the viewer. On display will be performative videos, a large scale projection, digital landscape “paintings” and an exploratory series of generative digital animations. Putnam examines performance art beyond lens based media, while questioning the ways time and space collapsed during the pandemic.

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FRICTION: A Live Performance with EL Putnam and David Stalling

Thursday, March 23, 2023, 6-7 PM,

Putnam acts as the human mediator between two generative animation systems, making visible the labor that responds to and produces data, as her body acts as the database of lived experience. A collaborative performance, Friction, created and performed with German sound artist David Stalling.

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Artist Talk EL Putnam

Media Art Gallery, Friday, March 24, 12PM

Join us for a audio-visual presentation on EL Putnam’s artist practice. Putnam will discuss recent performance and video works. FREE and open to the public

We are Emerson College’s platform for showcasing contemporary visual art. Our focus is on presenting living artists, their ideas, experiments, and creative practices in the areas of media art, performance art, and emergent technologies, while critically examining these works in their social context.

Our in-depth engagement with the temporary exhibitions and related public programming is based on the principle that artistic practice is an intellectual activity and works of art are a form of knowledge production.

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