Grand Opening of the Morris & Ann Dancyger Observatory Gallery and Exhibition Opening of Anton Ginzburg: Surface
Wednesday, March 13 | 6:00-9:00 PM
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6:00 PMGrand Opening of the Morris & Ann Dancyger Observatory Gallery and Inaugural Exhibition Preview
6:30 PM | Morris & Ann Dancyger Observatory GalleryIn-Conversation with Anton Ginzburg
7:30 PM | AuditoriumGalleries Close
9:00 PM
We are delighted to invite you to the grand opening of Contemporary Calgary’s newest exhibition space. Housed on the third floor of the gallery, the Morris & Ann Dancyger Observatory Gallery provides a space for dialogue and contemplation, with responsive and timely programming aimed to both foster and expand conversations. We are excited to create another level of engagement for and with our Calgary community.
Thanks to the generosity of Morris and Ann Dancyger, Calgary Foundation, and the City of Calgary, we are pleased to formally open the space on March 13th with the compelling inaugural exhibition Surface by Brooklyn-based artist Anton Ginzburg.
Anton Ginzburg’s Surface is a reflection on the use of technology as it relates to cultural labour, data aesthetics and machine learning. The three bodies of work presented, deliberate on surfaces that range from the architectural to the digital screen and beyond, and are especially relevant to the growing conversations around the role and ethics of AI.
The artist and curator will be in attendance this evening and the show runs from March 13 to June 2, 2024.
We hope to see you at this evening's celebration.
FREE to the public. No registration is required.
Seating for In-Conversation with Anton Ginzburg will be first come, first served.
Anton Ginzburg: Surface
March 13—June 2, 2024
Anton Ginzburg: Surface is a reflection on the use of technology as it relates to cultural labour, data aesthetics and machine learning. By employing algorithms to expand on the formal elements of art, its consumption, and transmutation, Ginzburg underlines the ever-evolving meaning of representation, data visualization and automatization in our digital age. The three bodies of work presented, deliberate on surfaces that range from the architectural to the digital screen and beyond, and are especially relevant to the growing conversations around the role and ethics of AI.
The 2D paintings in the Yerevan series, the 3D sculptural forms in Film Forms and the 4D (moving image) generated video in ML CRSH, all use algorithms to comment on the role and agency of algorithms themselves. And in so doing, they articulate the patterns and relationships that define what we now know as ‘algorithmic culture.’ What are the hierarchies and narratives that these systems perpetuate and grow, and what do they reveal about larger data networks within which they play a part.
