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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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PseudoRandom and Ghost Work: EL Putnam

Artist Reception and Live Performance: Wednesday, January 25, 5-7:30PM

Come celebrate this exciting exhibition with food and drinks and join us for a live performance of El Putnam's Ghost Work at 6PM. Mary Gray and Siddharth Suri define ghost work as the hidden human labor that powers our digital systems. In the performance of this title, 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.

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Ghost Work : EL Putnam

Live Performance, Friday, January 27, 12PM

Mary Gray and Siddharth Suri define ghost work as the hidden human labor that powers our digital systems. In the performance of this title, 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.

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.