Diriyah Art Futures hosts an exciting exhibition.
Diriyah Art Futures has announced the opening of its fourth major exhibition, Of the Earth: Earthly Technologies to Computational Biologies. The exhibition will run from 14 January until 16 May, and will explore how technology is reshaping our personal relationship with the natural world.
Diriyah Art Futures is the region’s first centre dedicated to New Media Arts, developed by the Saudi Museums Commission, which is one of the eleven sectors of the Saudi Ministry of Culture. Located in Diriyah, the birthplace of the Kingdom, the exhibition invites visitors to question how our relationship with the natural world is being challenged in this new digital age.
Curated by Diriyah Art Futures’ Director of Exhibitions, Irini Papadimitriou, the exhibition is organised around four thematic areas: Computational Chimeras, Earthly Circuits, Codes of Extraction, and Foraging Networks.
The exhibition will feature works by more than 30 artists, all examining how technology has been used as a tool to control nature, while also considering the environmental impact of the digital world on our finite resources. The artworks will highlight that such technologies are derived from the earth’s natural materials, including physical servers, undersea cables, rare minerals, and energy.
The artists aim to demonstrate how machines, humans, non-human creatures, and nature are all part of the same interconnected system. They seek to show that technological innovation can, in fact, be ecologically mindful, and that meaningful connections between technology and ecology are possible.
A public programme of panel discussions, practical workshops, and masterclasses will run alongside the exhibition.
Visit: www.daf.moc.gov.sa/en for more information.