Techné Disruptors (II), an exhibition at New York City’s leading experiential gallery High Line Nine this month, will feature works imagined with technologies of our times, including AI (artificial intelligence), AR (augmented reality), VR (virtual reality), holographs, and those from minted collections of Global South NFTs (non-fungible tokens).
From elemental light boxes to complex auto-generative and interactive works, from tantric tribal imagery to interactively generated portraits of the ‘self’, from miniature style paintings to highly futuristic pop-imagery, the exhibition will feature some of South Asia’s cutting edge artists. Handpicked from NFT collections put together by international curator and cultural producer Myna Mukherjee, ‘Techné Disruptors (II)’ is one of the first art and tech NFT shows from the Global South with a focus on South Asia. The exhibition will commence with an opening panel for the Jaipur Literature Festival’s New York City edition called ‘State of the Contemporary: NFTs and the Global South’. There will also be thought symposiums with participation from mainstream institutions, including MIT Media Labs, MoMa Web3 and Polygon Studios. Mukherjee, an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, and a trained Odissi dancer, cultural producer and curator, talks about the show. Edited excerpts:
How did your journey with NFTs and art begin?
I have always been interested in the intersection of art and technology, and in the notion of ‘cultural perpetuity’....
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