Sondra Perry s digital work Flesh Wall is currently taking over Times Square s billboards as part of the site s Midnight Moment monthly programme of artist interventions
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced today the inaugural recipients of its new Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship, which annually awards unrestricted grants of $50,000 to five artists who use technologies such as artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, software and coding, in what the foundation calls “thoughtful, creative or poetic ways” that “expand the field”.
“By supporting world-class tech-based art, we aim to spotlight the potential of using tech to engage audiences in meaningful art experiences,” says Victoria Rogers, the vice president of arts at the Knight Foundation. “Technology is a tool, in and of itself it is neither good nor bad. As artist s have done for centuries, they provide us with new ways to view the world. Through their lens, they can provok
Times Square Arts Presents Sondra Perry s FLESH WALL for February Midnight Moment
Midnight Moment is the world’s largest, longest-running digital art exhibition.by BWW News Desk
Times Square Arts, the largest public platform for contemporary performance and visual arts, is pleased to present Flesh Wall by Sondra Perry for the month of February as part of the organization s signature Midnight Moment series. Midnight Moment is the world s largest, longest-running digital art exhibition, synchronized on electronic billboards throughout Times Square nightly from 11:57pm to midnight.
Artist Sondra Perry uses video, performance, and digital manipulations to explore notions of identity, representation, and Blackness, both from an intimately personal perspective and a historical lens. Expanded to monumental proportions across the billboards of Times Square, Flesh Wall (2016-2020) is an animation of a super-modulated, highly processed image of the artist s skin - so magnified that it ta