Saturday, November 16 | 2 – 3:30PM ET 

In person at InterAccess
FREE, registration here

Join the 23rd IA Current Curator, Casper Sutton-Fosman, for a walkthrough and conversation of their exhibition, DINNER AT THE AUTOMAT.

Curated by Casper Sutton-Fosman and featuring the work of artists Lena Chen, Jenson Leonard, Alfred Muszynski, Sam Pelletier, and Shay Salehi, DINNER AT THE AUTOMAT explores the promises and failures of automation and artificial intelligence. Centering the obfuscated human labour that is vital to our experience of a high-tech, automatic world, the exhibition makes visible what is often hidden, lurking beneath the surface of techno-hype.

Working in video, kinetic sculpture, multimedia painting, ready-mades and audio installation, the featured artists build a conversation around the nuances of hidden labour. The selected works illuminate the violence and absurdity of treating human bodies as machines, question the value of automating creativity, and complicate our understanding of whose labour is valued and made visible.

More about the exhibition here

ABOUT THE CURATOR

Casper Sutton-Fosman is a cross-disciplinary artist, curator, and academic currently based in Toronto, ON. Their work centres conceptions of identity through a trans and disabled lens, pushing boundaries of medium and discipline to open in-between spaces for being. Sutton-Fosman is interested in troubling linearity and authorship, interactivity and implication, working in spaces between analog and digital, involving craft practices and outdated technology. They hold an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media, & Design from OCAD University and a BA in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College.

ABOUT IA CURRENT

The InterAccess Current program supports the professional development of emerging curators and artists interested in new media and electronic practices. “Current” refers to the now, of course, but it is also an energetic charge that causes light, heat, and all manner of electronic life; an apt metaphor for emergent creative practices within the ever-expanding field of new media.

Image courtesy of Shay Salehi.