Latest Salon // Perception
November 5, 2026
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Salon 112, "Perception" (November 5, 2026), is moderated by Lee Schnaiberg, who introduces the theme▶ 0:25 and describes how the brain builds the reality we see from a flood of sensory data▶ 1:09. In a pre-recorded video, Karen LaFleur reflects on perception through the memoir she is writing▶ 3:11, compares the uncanny aliveness of an artwork to a puppet that holds our attention while we ignore its strings▶ 7:33, contrasts puppets with dolls▶ 10:21 and describes perception between the viewer and the viewed as a two-way loop▶ 13:56. Michael Pierre Price brings together physics, neuroscience, consciousness and spirituality▶ 18:10, explaining that the act of seeing is an act of creation▶ 21:01; he thinks of consciousness as a Möbius loop▶ 28:32, shows Two Up Quarks and One Down Quark in the Higgs Field▶ 32:11, describes his time with Indigenous elders and his psilocybin journeys▶ 33:50 and closes with the vast ocean of oneness▶ 40:04. Lee Schnaiberg recalls that the Salon's original topic was psychedelica▶ 42:00 and speaks of rummaging through the drawers of perception▶ 44:48. Karen LaFleur joins live▶ 45:36. Lee Schnaiberg then shows his own work, telling how a drawing class that asked students to draw one unbroken line▶ 47:28 and a message he began to write while on mushrooms▶ 49:05 led to decades of graphite line drawings▶ 50:53; he explains bottom-up and top-down messaging in the brain▶ 55:11, and shows his folded rainbows▶ 59:16 and videos that make it harder to tell foreground from background▶ 1:00:17. Keana Sears, a 3D artist, draws on psychedelic experiences▶ 1:02:54, plays several animations▶ 1:04:20 and talks about the Mesoamerican, Shipibo and Indian geometry in the work▶ 1:08:27 and the perennial imagery that flows through cultures▶ 1:09:01. Karen LaFleur says she is now 3D scanning the hands and faces from her early dolls for her moving-image work▶ 1:17:10 and tells how she was halfway to Woodstock▶ 1:18:39. Colin Goldberg thanks Lee Schnaiberg▶ 1:21:47, plays the reel teaser for the Paris exhibition▶ 1:22:22, announces next month's Salon on India, moderated by Malavika▶ 1:24:58 and invites everyone to the after-party▶ 1:25:42.
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Participants (4)
- ▶ 3:11 Karen LaFleur USA
- ▶ 17:24 Michael Pierre Price USA
- ▶ 46:45 Lee Schnaiberg Canada
- ▶ 1:02:12 Keana Sears
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Techspressionist Salon 112, “Perception,” recorded November 5, 2026. Techspressionism Video Archive. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23990824.
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 artist community.
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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.
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