Women and New Machines

Media artists Laetitia Sonami, M Eifler, and Camille Utterback use technological contraptions, such as video, electronic processing, and computers to explore the boundaries of art, and discuss their use of modern day contraptions.

Laetitia Sonami is a sound artist, performer and researcher. Best known for her unique instrument, the elbow-length Lady's Glove, which is fitted with an array of sensors tracking the slightest motion of her hand and body, she has performed worldwide and earned substantial international renown.

M Eifler is an artist and leader in XR design working in the ecotones of art and technology to create new tools, and forms of research, as well as sculpture, video and virtual, and augmented reality technology. They are currently focused on incorporating embodied cognition fundamentals into an XR operating system and set of creative tools in order to free users' bodies from the physical malpractice of desktop computing. M is a vocal disabled, transgender, and bisexual person interested in inbetweens, chimeras, and grey areas.

Camille Utterback is an internationally acclaimed artist and pioneer in the field of digital and interactive art. Her work ranges from interactive gallery installations, to intimate reactive sculptures, to architectural scale site-specific works. Utterback's work explores the aesthetic and experiential possibilities of linking computational systems to human movement and physicality in visually layered ways.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Contraption: Rediscovering California Jewish Artists.

$10 general (includes Museum admission).