Sunday July 20, 4pm
First Circle Performances:
Grahame Weinbren / Will Pappenheimer
(w/ Clara Francesca)
Q&A with the artists follows
Admission is free
Microscope is pleased to present a late afternoon event with artists Grahame Weinbren and Will Pappenheimer, taking place in connection with the exhibition “The First Circle: Radical Humanism,” curated by Claudia Hart and Natasha Chuk.
The event opens with an artist presentation by Weinbren of his groundbreaking interactive cinema installations, such as Erl King (1981-85) and Sonata (1991-93). Made in collaboration with Roberta Friedman, these works explore non-linear storytelling through the random access capabilities of the LaserDisc.
Pappenheimer will follow with a premiere of two of his original ASMR role-play-based works. “Listen To The Sound of Water Flowing” is an approximately 8-minute AR performance from iPAD to projection. While “EXiT” is short live spoken work in collaboration with performance artist and actor Clara Francesca.
Artists and artworks in “The First Circle: Radical Humanism” were selected from a larger archive of 37 artists, of which Weinbren and Pappenheimer are a part. “The First Circle” was inspired by Hart’s personal search to identify and bring together a group of artists of her generation with similar creative impulses involving the use of computers and systems toward making expressive, figurative, and representational imagery.
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Grahame Weinbren’s installations, documentaries and experimental films have been screened and installed internationally since 1975, including the Whitney Museum, MoMA, ICA (London), Guggenheim Museum, Bonn Kunsthalle, the Centre Georges Pompidou, and numerous others. Commissions include the National Gallery of Art, the City of Dortmund, the Guggenheim Museum, and NTT/ICC Tokyo. His writings on cinema, media art and philosophy-related topics are widely published. He is the senior editor of the Millennium Film Journal and until recently a member of the graduate faculty of the School of Visual Arts.
Will Pappenheimer is a Brooklyn-based intermedia artist and educator working in new media, performance and installation. His current work explores the collage of the virtual and physical worlds in the recent mediums of augmented or mixed reality and artificial intelligence. He was a founding member of the augmented reality (AR) collective, Manifest.AR, formed in 2011, which pioneered interventionist projects worldwide. His projects and performances have been shown internationally at Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum and the Moving Image Art Fair in New York; LACMA and Fringe Exhibitions, Los Angeles; MOMA and Bitforms Gallery in San Francisco; Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; FACT, Liverpool, UK; Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul; the ICA, CyberArts Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. He recently debuted a solo show of new at the Alpha Gallery in Boston. His works have been reviewed in the Whitney Museum curator, Christiane Paulʼs historical editions of “Digital Art,” Art in America, New York Times, Hyperallergic.org, WIRED, the Boston Globe, and EL PAIS, Madrid. A documentary on his work is as part of the first series of Bloomberg TV’s Art + Technology series.
Clara Francesca is stage and screen actor, singer, XR performance artist, C-Suite Public Speaking Coach and professor. She holds a Juris Doctorate and Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences, is the winner of the American Australian Association Dame Joan Sutherland Fund for Performance Excellence, the recipient of The Austrian-American Federal Assistance Award for her artistry as co-founder with Anne Wichmann of The Extended Reality Ensemble (XRE) and Best Actress winner at the Arts Centre Fairfax Stage for self-devised piece “Susan Who?. Clara’s work has been featured on PBS, “FBI” (CBS) opposite Jeremy Sisto, and “New Amsterdam” (NBC) opposite Ryan Eggold”, with her solo show “Making Marx” proudly directed by Laurence Olivier Award Winner Guy Masterson (Broadway/West End). Most recently, Clara was featured at The Queens Museum for Jerome Fellow Umber Majeed’s exhibit, “J😊Y TECH”. Earlier this year, Clara spoke at the Berlin MANIFEST:IO Symposium with fellow panelists Martin Binder and Alex Hawthorn. Clara is a proud XR educator at Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), Microdose VR collaborator, and Anne Bogart SITI Company’s Inaugural Conservatory Alumnus.