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MIRI CHAIS : RE:MIND 2

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Channel: ERIC MINH SWENSON ART FILMS · 2014 · Education

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Film by Eric Minh Swenson. Music by Ari Chais. 

Los Angeles, CA (August 25th, 2014) - Opening September 17th, USC Fisher Museum of Art is proud to present, Miri Chais. Re:mind, a site specific exhibition by contemporary artist, Miri Chais. In her first solo museum exhibition in the US since moving to Los Angeles in 2012, Chais reflects on the increasingly porous boundaries between the physical world and augmented reality in today’s society, as well as the future of life and mankind in this age of technological evolution.

Through this exhibition, Chais explores questions about the impact that new technology will have on humanity in the very near future. She asks, "If we are programmed like computers, then what differentiates a man from a machine? We will create artificial memories, and master complex skills instantaneously. And what becomes of the human soul, sum of a person's knowledge and experience?" Miri Chais Re:mind takes the viewer through the intersection of the physical and
digital world.

Brand new works featured in this exhibition include: Recall to Mind, a group of white ghostly sculptural heads, some with a video screen on their sides, emerge anonymously from a white sterile wall to disrupt the silence of the surface and blur the lines between human and machine. On Mind, a series of mixed media works, digitally and manually layered with images on top of an MRI scan, explores the intersection between technology, individual state of mind, and thought. Sculptures, American Eagle and Raven, created with bird skull replicas, feature looping videos of a perpetual and never completed chase. Prism Pyramids, a sculpture made up of diamond shaped pyramids housing illuminated objects, and exploring physical limitations, time, death, and memorialization in the new technological landscape.

Originally from Israel, Chais has created numerous artworks that explore the tension between technology, humanity and nature. Her work has been displayed around the world, including exhibitions in Israel, Japan, and Germany. Miri Chais. Re:mind is part of a new series of exhibitions organized by the USC Fisher Museum of Art presenting contemporary artists.

For more info on Eric Minh Swenson or project inquiries visit his website: www.thuvanarts.com.  You can also visit the art film series page at www.thuvanarts.com/take1

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