Scott Kildall: Territoriology
November 8 – December 21, 2019
Reception Friday, November 8, 7–10PM
Artist Event Saturday, December 7, 1–3PM
Closing Happy Hour Friday, December 20, 2019, 5–7PM
Flagscape (2019) Still from Virtual Reality installation
Black & White Projects is excited to present Territoriology, a solo exhibit of new artwork by Scott Kildall. The show includes sculpture, prints, a virtual reality installation and participatory art. The installation combines several bodies of work that play with the formal qualities of territory, from choreographed glitched flag dances in VR, to sculptures capturing the oddities of gerrymandered shapes to a passport station where you can apply to be a Lunar citizen.
Scott Kildall’s third solo exhibition at Black & White Projects opens with an artist reception on Friday, November 8, from 7 to 10PM. A special artist event will be hosted on Saturday, December 7, 1–3PM, before the shows close on December 21st.
Scott Kildall is a new media artist who looks at the interplay between territory and technology. He sees this as a dynamic relationship, which changes as the dissemination of new inventions shift and then resettle structures of power.
His work often spatializes data to create experiences where viewers can move and interact with the data itself. Because data has physical consequences, his work generates meaningful real-life experiences for the viewer. Recent artworks range from stone tablets etched with meteorite impact data to interactive sound installations based on water quality to virtual reality installations where viewers can fly around data involving the artificial construct of the nation-state.
Scott has been working with art + technology + education for over 15 years. In 2017, he worked as an American Arts Incubator Artist, where he led a 1-month workshop in Bangkok to teach data-visualization and sculptural techniques to local Thai educators and students involving water quality in that city. Additionally, he has worked as a New Media Exhibit Developer (2012-13) at The Exploratorium in the Life Sciences Gallery. He has also taught coursework involving data-visualization and digital mapping at the University of San Francisco.
He has received fellowships, awards and residencies from organizations including the SETI Institute, ZERO1, Santa Fe Art Institute, Impakt Works, Autodesk, Recology San Francisco, Turbulence.org, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, The Kala Art Institute and The Banff Centre for the Arts.
His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the New York Hall of Science, Transmediale, the Venice Biennale, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the San Jose Museum of Art. He currently resides in San Francisco.
Twitter: @kildall
Instagram: @kildall
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