Microscope Gallery is pleased to present “The First Circle: Radical Humanism,” a group exhibition of works and live performances/presentations by groundbreaking digital artists curated by Claudia Hart and Natasha Chuk.
The exhibition was inspired by Hart’s personal search to identify and bring together a group of artists of her generation with similar artistic trajectories such as: transitioning into digital technologies from other mediums; working with “expressive, figurative and representational” imagery, rather than algorithmic and abstract; and creating innovative works that do not easily fit into prevailing and historical narratives.
The works in “First Circle: Radical Humanism” were made between 1974 and 2022 and represent a wide-range of approaches and technologies including computer drawings, 3-D animations, Machinima, installation, sculpture, holograms, mixed-media, photography, video, robotics and more. Restorations of several of the historical works that were completed within the past two years will be on view.
Featuring work by Peggy Ahwesh, Nancy Burson, Copper Frances Giloth, GRANULAR-SYNTHESIS, Claudia Hart, Julia Heyward, Les LeVeque, Michael Rees, Chico MacMurtrie, Will Pappenheimer, Jennifer Steinkamp, Nina Sobell, Leslie Thornton, Penelope Umbrico, Susan Gamble & Michael Wenyon, Paul Wong, Grahame Weinbren, and Adriannę Wortzel
