The School of Visual Arts’ MFA Computer Arts department (MFACA) fosters creative experimentation and a multidisciplinary approach to creating art with computers and emergent technologies.
Showcasing two of their most recent experimental artworks in the exhibition, Where Do the Children Play?, MFACA invites the audience into inquisitive, playful experiences. Sounds and visuals reverberate in Christa Majoras’s shape of play as visitors shape-shift the projected striations and audio output in front of them. They can also bear witness to the staccato hums of both native and invasive species recorded from the natural world—ambient yet frenetic—within Marsh Temporalities by Jessica Reisch.
Born from research, observation, and play, the works invite visitors to engage and reflect through interactive forms and to experience their spaces as multi-sensory environments. The form that the exhibited works take is rooted in research of the senses and impacted environments, with social structures that inform their external output (both peaceful and at times chaotic).
Where Do the Children Play? is an invitation to alter or sit with what is in front of you; a decision on how the viewer will impact their work and their environment. It is an invitation to dwell with something peacefully or engage with potentially unexpected results, drawing on creative systems to instigate interactivity—a chance to keep the peace or shake up the environment they are invited to be a part of.
