LOOP ART CRITIQUE
Thursday, September 4, 12PM Eastern
Loop Art Critique is a virtual community connecting artists through critique, conversation, and creative exchange.
In this Salon, you will meet some of the amazing artists behind this project, as well as some members of the Techspressionist community that have created projects within Loop in the past. Techspressionism will be collaborating with Loop to create ongoing collaborative projects bringing artists together to express themselves creatively in virtual space.
Founded by artist Ariel Baron-Robbins in 2022, Loop began collaborating with the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) in 2025 on programming that brings artists together for dialogue, exhibitions, and learning. Loop’s digital infrastructure is developed and supported by Mud Foundation.
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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 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.
