The Journal for Digital Art History (DAHJ)’s first VR gallery exhibition is still accessible on our website! The space now includes videos from Francesca Albrezzi (DAHJ Gallery Director and Curator) and Harald Klinke (DAHJ Co-founder). If you weren’t able to attend the opening, make sure to watch those remarks.
The largest retrospective of Kathleen McDermott’s work to date, “Absurdist Electronics: Wearable Coping Mechanisms, Techno-Anxiety and Thoughts on Dada” focuses on McDermott’s work with wearables, a medium which is especially well-suited to an absurdist response, because the body in relation to technology has historically been subject to conflicting narratives, often limited to the utopia/dystopia binary. Taking inspiration from Dada tactics of using absurdity to blur boundaries and redirect attention, McDermott seeks to promote a more liminal conversation around the future of wearables, subverting principles of control and rationalism, which dominate commercial wearable design.