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.
Salon 93 // Live from Cape Cod
Thursday, April 3, from 12:00 – 1:30 pm, with Q/A.
About
Techspressionism introduces a new art historical term that distinguishes expressive fine art created with technology from such genres as “digital art,” which can include animated movies and video games. This artist generated movement embraces changing technologies in the creative process and communicates with each other via online salons, regional nodes, interviews, exhibitions, and writings. The program takes place concurrently online via Zoom and in person at the Cape Cod Museum of Art’s D’Alessandro Auditorium. If you’d like to attend via Zoom, you can register for free online here.
The program’s goal is to encourage communication between online and offline art worlds. The event includes a historical overview of Techspressionism, presentations of Techspressionism exhibits and a Q & A session to meet the artists. Renata Janiszewska, Karen LaFleur, and Benton Jones, Director of Art, will be in attendance at the Cape Cod Museum of Art.
Program
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Opening Introductions, Benton Jones, Director of Art, Cape Cod Museum of Art.
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Mariniana Trailer to introduce Karen LaFleur and Renata Janiszewska.
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An introduction to Techspressionism presented by Colin Goldberg. Goldberg coined the term Techspressionism in 2011. He is recognized for his role in developing the community of artists working with technology that forms the core of this international movement.
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A review of the Kingsborough Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY exhibition Hello Brooklyn! // Techspressionism 2024 (September 2024). This exhibit includes over 90 Techspressionist artists from around the world. Curator Tommy Mintz discusses the exhibit and speaks about the new Hello Chelsea! // Techspressionism 2025 exhibition opening in Chelsea, NYC on April 30th, 2025. Selected artworks presented.
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A review of the 150 Media Stream / Four Techspressionist Artists moving image exhibition opening April 29th-July 20, 2025 in downtown Chicago, IL. The 150 Media Stream video wall is 150 feet long and 22 feet high. Presenters Karen LaFleur and Renata Janiszewska give an overview of the exhibit.
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Program ends with a Q & A between the CCMoA’s in-person audience and the online community of Techspressionist artists.
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Closing Remarks, Benton Jones, Director of Art, Cape Cod Museum of Art.
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.
WHAT IS A TECHSPRESSIONIST SALON?
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 1920’s, in which artists could meet informally to socialize and discuss ideas. Techspressionism is a 100% volunteer-based international artist community.
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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