Techspressionist Salons
Perception
In Salon 112, Perception, we’re going to find ourselves Rummaging Through the Drawers of Perception. We explore a deceptively simple question: What is perception, and how does it shape the world we experience? We don’t simply see reality; our brains continually construct, filter, interpret, and sometimes misinterpret the information arriving through all our senses (especially our eyes and ears). And when perception is altered, whether through technology, light, color, movement, sound, memory, or psychedelics, the world itself can seem to change. Bringing together four very different Techspressionist artists—Lindsay Kokoska, Andy Thomas, Michael Pierre Price, and Keana (KE Visuals)—the salon explores these shifting states of perception and the ways artists can manipulate, disrupt, amplify, and reimagine them. Rather than simply asking, “What do we see?” we’ll ask, “How does seeing happen in the first place?” … And what happens when we start messing with the machinery?
Moderator:
Lee Schnaiberg – Montreal, Canada
https://www.instagram.com/leeschnaiberg/
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Lindsay Kokoska – Sydney, Canada
https://www.infinitemantra.ca/
https://www.instagram.com/infinite_mantra/
Andy Thomas – Melbourne, Australia
https://andythomas.com.au/
https://www.instagram.com/andythomasartist/
Michael Pierre Price – Phoenix, AZ USA
https://www.michaelpierreprice.com/
Keana aka KE Visuals
Techspressionist Salons now incorporate Zoom translated captions, which enable users to have the speech in a meeting or webinar automatically translated in real-time to captions in another language. For example, if the speaker is speaking English in a meeting, captions can be made available in Spanish, Chinese, Ukrainian, and more. Many thanks to Cynthia Beth Rubin for taking the lead on this initiative. Instructions on how to enable translated captions are available for mobile and desktop.
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Attendance is free,
but pre-registration is required.
Artists in attendance are always invited to share their work via screen-sharing.
Salon: 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
Afterparty: After recording stops (1:30-???) – do you want to be on the Techspressionism advisory board? It’s the peeps at the afterparty.
If you would like to share your work via screen-sharing, please arrive at 11:45.
THIS JAM WILL BE RECORDED.
Techspressionist Salons are a time and place in cyberspace where artists gather once a month to hang out, share their work and discuss matters relating to art, philosophy, and technology. These meetups were conceived as a modern counterpart to the Surrealist salons of the 1920s and 1930s , in which artists could meet informally to socialize and discuss ideas. Techspressionism is a 100% volunteer-based international artistic movement, sustained by its community of artists.
The First Techspressionist Salon was held on September 1, 2020, and included artists Colin Goldberg, Patrick Lichty, Steve Miller and Oz Van Rosen, as well as art historian Helen Harrison.
In 1990, after serving as curator of the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY, director of the Public Art Preservation Committee in Manhattan, and curator of Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, Ms. Harrison became the director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, a National Historic Landmark museum and the former home of Abstract Expressionist painters Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. She served as Director of this National Historic Landmark museum and research collection in East Hampton from 1990 until retiring from her post in 2024. Ms. Harrison continues to serve Techspressionist artistic community in an advisory role.
During this first Salon session, the working definition of Techspressionism was decided upon by the participants as: “An artistic approach in which technology is utilized as a means to express emotional experience.”
Artist Davonte Bradley (aka DAVO) proposed the idea of recording the Salons and publishing them on the Techspressionism YouTube Channel, which was implemented starting with Salon #8.
Salons are moderated by a rotating panel of artist volunteers. After the recording ends, artists are welcome to hang out for the afterparty (aka advisory board meeting), in which the topic for the next Salon is decided upon, and other community-related ideas are discussed.
