NOTE DATE CHANGE DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER
NEW DATE IS TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2024
How do you present yourself in the digital vs. physical world? BMoCA curator Jane Burke will moderate a tech and art focused panel discussion on trends in online personae featuring digital media experts Ian Hatcher, Sharifa Lafon, and Paulus van Horne.
Tickets $15/$10 members
About Ian Hatcher
Ian Hatcher (he/they) is an artist, writer, voice actor, coder, and educator. His parafictional lectures and code-inflected readings are presented internationally. A former Fulbright Scholar, he is currently a PhD student at CU Boulder, where his research focuses on AI, claims, confidence, and corporatism.
About Sharifa Lafon
Sharifa Lafon (she/her) is an artist-facilitator and community organizer working as a curator and educator, who occasionally gets to make art too. Her current roles include serving as the executive director and curator at Denver Digerati, a 501(c)(3) that specializes in emergent media, as a lecturer in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Colorado Denver, and as a board member volunteering for Tilt West and the Colorado Committee for the National Museum of Women in the Arts (CCNMWA).
About Paulus van Horne
Paulus van Horne (they/them) is a sound artist and media technology researcher from Amsterdam who currently lives and works in Colorado. Their creative practice encompasses machine learning, radio production, game design and large-scale audiovisual installation. Paulus is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Critical Media Practices at University of Colorado Boulder. Their practice-based research focuses on voice synthesis, gender simulation and trans studies.
About BMoCA’s Curator, Jane Burke
Jane Burke (She/her) is the Curator of Flagship exhibitions at BMoCA. Prior to her role at BMoCA, Jane held positions at the Denver Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, The Contemporary Museum, and The East West Center Gallery. She has also guest curated for Artworks Center for Contemporary Art (Loveland), RULE gallery (Marfa), and University of Denver Museum of Anthropology. Burke received a bachelor’s degree in studio art from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an interdisciplinary master’s degree in Asian art history and Mandarin from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.