The lecture – titled 'Tomorrow’s Nature' – is free and open to the public.
Those interested in the webinar can register online at https://vcu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4HRzwhOAQPesxgZJYyVB5A
Further information is available on The Gallery’s website, https://gallery.qatar.vcu.edu/jonah-king
(image) Jonah King
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Born in Dublin, Ireland, and based in New York, King is a media artist, filmmaker and educator who explores how ecological intimacies give rise to culture and identity.
In this specific lecture organised by the Qatar Foundation (QF) partner university, he will chart “connections between the ecological intimacies, entangled histories, and emerging technologies that underpin his cross-disciplinary practice”.
He will also discuss his process and upcoming collaborative project, 'Honey Fungus, a “sci-fi virtual reality film exploring the interconnectedness of human and non-humans through underground fungal networks”.
Following Monday’s lecture, King will conduct a workshop exclusively for students from VCUarts Qatar and Education City the next day (February 22).
The workshop will take place both online and in the Atrium at VCUarts Qatar.
Participants will explore the creation and use of digital avatars in augmented reality and motion capture, using several software platforms.
They will also be introduced to King’s specific approaches in the use of avatars to express the relationship between human beings and nature.
He often invites groups of people to enact performances informed by scientific and historical research.
The resulting films, sculptures, installations and technology projects are neither documentation nor storytelling.
Instead, they combine the two; worldbuilding new perspectives on experiences shared.
Continuing the theme of science and design, the “Crossing Boundaries” lecture on March 28 will feature Lucy McRae, a British-born Australian sci-fi artist and “Body Architect”.
She has exhibited at MIT, Science Museum London, Centre Pompidou and the Venice Biennale.
McRae is a visiting professor at SCIArc in Los Angeles who has spoken at TED, Royal Albert Hall, Cannes Lion, and Tribeca Film Festival.
She is regarded as a pioneer who blurs the boundaries across art, architecture, design and technology with a healthy disregard for labels that limit interdisciplinary practice.
For over a decade, VCUarts Qatar’s “Crossing Boundaries” lecture series has been regularly offering the public a chance to interact with and be inspired by world-class designers who – through the application of design thinking, and their cross-disciplinary approaches – provide creative solutions to global concerns.
