150 Media Stream is proud to present “Four Techspressionist Artists”, a new exhibition of four video works by four leading voices in the Techspressionist movement: Colin Goldberg, Renata Janiszewska, Karen LaFleur, and Jan Swinburne.
Using a dynamic blend of digital media, motion graphics, and abstract visual language, these four artists work at the intersection of technology and expression. Despite vastly different aesthetics, the exhibition’s four pieces all represent unique perspectives into the essence of Techspressionism, a global, community- driven art movement that embraces technology as a tool for emotional and aesthetic exploration.
The exhibition will be on view April 28 – July 20, 2025, in the lobby of 150 North Riverside Plaza, with a public event for the exhibition on Thursday, May 1st. Free to visit and consisting of a 150-foot LED wall, 150 Media Stream is a public digital art installation curated by Chicago-based video artist Yuge Zhou.
Come meet the artists and see the installation broadcast live from Chicago for Salon 94.
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.
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.