{"id":8202,"date":"2019-10-07T18:36:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T00:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=8202"},"modified":"2025-01-08T21:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T03:43:23","slug":"october-10-zach-blas-obedient-x3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2019\/10\/07\/october-10-zach-blas-obedient-x3\/","title":{"rendered":"October 10 – Zach Blas: Obedient x3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Zach Blas in person<\/em><\/p>\n

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Zach Blas (Post-Bac 2006), Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033, 2018. Image courtesy of the artist and SAIC’s Video Data Bank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wry and provocative, the work of\u00a0multidisciplinary\u00a0artist\u00a0Zach\u00a0Blas (Post-Bac 2006)\u00a0examines technologies of social control through the lens of queer and feminist politics.\u00a0In recent years, his projects have addressed biometric capture, microdosing, the hegemony of the Internet, and sex toys.\u00a0Blas\u00a0presents a suite of these projects, including the Chicago premiere of\u00a0<\/em>Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033\u00a0<\/em>(2018).\u00a0Using Derek Jarman\u2019s queer punk classic\u00a0Jubilee\u00a0<\/em>(1978) as inspiration,\u00a0Blas\u2019 film is a CGI fever dream in which Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan, and members of Rand’s Collective are transported from 1955 to a dystopian future Silicon Valley. Guided by a holographic virtual assistant, the group is confronted by Nootropix, a prophetic figure (played by the artist Cassils) who envisions new modes of connection through the end of the Internet.<\/p>\n

\u00a02011\u201319, United Kingdom\/United States\/Germany\/Denmark\/Mexico, multiple formats, ca 60 minutes followed by discussion<\/em><\/p>\n

Presented in partnership with SAIC\u2019s Video Data Bank<\/em><\/p>\n

Zach\u00a0Blas<\/strong>\u00a0is an artist, filmmaker, and writer whose practice spans technical investigation, theoretical research, conceptualism, performance, and science fiction. He is a lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Blas has exhibited, lectured, and held screenings internationally, recently at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; 2018 Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; 68th Berlin International Film Festival; Matadero Madrid; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Art in General, New York; Gasworks, London; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands; Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore; e-flux; Whitechapel Gallery, London; ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany; and Museo Universitario Arte Contempor\u00e1neo, Mexico City. His practice has been supported by a Creative Capital award in Emerging Fields, the Arts Council England, and Edith-Russ-Haus f\u00fcr Medienkunst.\u00a0Blas\u00a0is a 2018\u201320 UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Leadership Fellow and a 2019 Mercator Fellow in Configurations of Film at Goethe-Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt, Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Zach Blas in person Wry and provocative, the work of\u00a0multidisciplinary\u00a0artist\u00a0Zach\u00a0Blas (Post-Bac 2006)\u00a0examines technologies of social control through the lens of queer and feminist politics.\u00a0In recent years, his projects have addressed biometric capture, microdosing, the hegemony of the Internet, and sex toys.\u00a0Blas\u00a0presents a suite of these projects, including the Chicago premiere of\u00a0Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033\u00a0(2018).\u00a0Using Derek Jarman\u2019s […]<\/p>\n

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