Press Preview January 15
TRANSFER and Nguyen Wahed Gallery present TRANSFER Download: AliveNET, an immersive exhibition exploring the fragile space of perception between human and machine vision. Through experiments in a wide array of digital image-making technologies—from game engines, to film rendering software, to pixel editors, generative artworks, and subversive forms of artificial intelligence—the featured artists interrogate screen-mediation and algorithmic embodiment. The exhibition is presented in TRANSFER’s 3-channel interactive format at Nguyen Wahed in Lower Manhattan.
Against a backdrop of ubiquitous prompt-based AI, these works appropriate and reconfigure digital technologies to generate both critical friction and expanded possibility for what comes next. Drawing on speculative simulation, science-fiction storytelling, and experimental worldbuilding, TRANSFER Download: AliveNET engages contemporary anxieties—including dead internet theory's proposition that algorithmic activity has eclipsed human presence online—while asserting a more complex truth: our reality emerges from the entanglement of on-screen and off-screen experience, and artists remain essential architects of that convergence
TRANSFER Download is a traveling exhibition format that invites viewers to step inside virtual worlds. Each Download features a curatorial selection of artworks on a theme, exhibited within a three-channel interactive installation custom-designed for the exhibition. The immersive installation is controlled by a tablet display, allowing viewers to interact with the exhibition and “choose their own adventure.” TRANSFER Download was conceived in 2016 by Kelani Nichole and Harvey Moon, and has travelled to San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Miami, Basel, and Shanghai.
TRANSFER is pleased to collaborate with Nguyen Wahed to present this new iteration together, which reflects on the ubiquity of our screen-mediated realities.
Participating Artists: Chia Amisola, Leo Castañeda, Carla Gannis, Huntrezz Janos & Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, Fabiola Larios, Rosa Menkman, Lorna Mills, Eva Papamargariti, Yoshi Sodeoka
With Support From WLAB – Virtual Production Studio & LED Wall / Stage Equipment Rental