The Plaxall Gallery 5-25 46th Ave, Long Island City 11101
Reception, Friday April 13th 2018, 7:00 – 10:00pm
The Plaxall Gallery – A reception for the art show ‘Escape Velocity’ will be held on April 13th 7:00 – 10:00 pm. This group show runs from April 13th to May 13th, 2018. Curated by Edjo Wheeler, the gallery will be highlighting the work of Greg Hildebrandt, best known for his paintings of Lord of the Rings publications, Marvel and DC Comics and of course the original 1977 Star Wars movie poster!
Join us for an evening of SciFi artwork, live music and an excerpt from the play that will be performed during the run of our exhibition.
Mafe Izaguirre:
“I design machines that can feel.”
Mafe Izaguirre is a Venezuelan New York-based visual artist who builds sensitive machines to explore the aesthetics of the artificial mind.
The Emotion Machine is an interactive mechanical entity that interrogates the materiality and the visuality of thought and invites the public to experience artificial states of mind. This sculptural electronic system, composed of several sensitive mechanisms, operates with custom software that embodies emotional mind maps. Mafe is interested in exploring the aesthetic of emerging technologies to create a lexicon that represents the artificial emotional language from the machine’s perspective. Many people find absurd, the idea of objects that can “feel.” Her work explores the creation of artifacts that mimic the human senses and consciousness.
Framed as The Mind Project, she moves towards prototypes of sensitive machines based on Marvin Minsky’s model from his book “The Emotion Machine.
I am seeking collaborators who want to share a meditation session that will be recorded with the sensitive machine. If you’re interested in collaborating with this metaphysical experience, please send me an email to mafelandia[at]gmail.com
