Join Matthew Waddell and Laura Anzola for an informal behind-the-scenes look at their latest “hyper-media” installation GLUV, which is part of the ongoing exhibition Rerouting. During this guided tour and presentation, the artists will discuss the concepts and motivations that drove them to create this speculative product, along with their use of satire to comment on the extractive nature of most modern-day technology. The artists will also discuss the challenges present while creating interactive art, 3D animation and multimedia work.
Wednesday, May 18
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Flanagan Gallery and Auditorium
Free for Members, Free with $10 Admission
This program has been rescheduled from May 12 to May 18.
About the Artists
Laura Anzola & Matthew Waddell
(they / them)
Laura Anzola (b. Bogotá, Colombia) and Matthew Waddell (b. Calgary, Canada) have been Calgary-based collaborators for over seven years, creating work both under their own names, and through their collective Axis Z Media Arts (AZMA). They’ve conceived and generated multiple award-winning projects that scrutinize the relationship between human interaction and digital media, many of which have been presented at festivals, galleries, and theatre spaces across Canada.
New Media artist Laura Anzola examines and critiques the impact of technology on our daily lives and bodies, corporeal gestures, and global mobility, through unconventional applications of tech – adapted, hacked, and transformed. Her work often casts a skeptical eye on global societal issues using visual storytelling and interactive media. Her current project, Blue Borders, an audiovisual essay for dome projection, explores notions of home, identity, privilege and belonging. Laura’s work has been shown in galleries and public spaces in Colombia, Germany, and Canada.
Matthew Waddell is constantly seeking fresh and startling ways to examine how technology manipulates and warps our understanding and experience of the world, as well as our cultural and individual identities. With a creative practice at once organic and synthetic, his work blends images, animations, and interactive software programs to distort analog reality through a digital lens. The results are often uncanny: familiar yet otherworldly, and often profoundly disconcerting. Matthew’s recent projects have been showcased at the Alberta Gallery of Art (Edmonton), Eastern Bloc (Montreal), and the WRECK CITY Residency (Calgary).