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“Close to the Clouds: Encountering Digital Diasporas”
March 25 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
“Close to the Clouds: Encountering Digital Diasporas” features Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Zainab Aliyu, Rindon Johnson, Lauren Lee McCarthy and Kyle McDonald, Rebeca Romero, and Tianyi Sun and Fiel Guhit – who consider how the formation of collective identities takes place utilizing technology and the internet. The exhibit runs through May 3. Note: The Bemis Center stays open late on Thursdays (until 9 p.m.).
About the exhibition: The artists in “Close to the Clouds” use multiple approaches to expand the idea of “digital diasporas”—their works are invitations to oscillate between the physical and the digital, through durational mediums and a poetic interpretation of time. They consider how media and communications shape our sense of self as we move through various places. Across the exhibition one will encounter various sites from the site-specificity of Omaha, Nebraska to airports, islands, and ruins afar, ranging from real to immaterial spaces. By way of ancestral mythologies, current memories, augmented inner monologues, and imagined futures, the artists bring us closer to understanding how technological clouds affect our interpersonal relationships.
