2022/01/04

Curator Tina Rivers Ryan Fights Historical Amnesia with “Difference Machines”

● 04/01/2022
“We felt it was important to emphasize that technologies have a history, because if they have a history, they can be changed. Technology can be intervened in, and different futures imagined.”
– Art historian Tina Rivers Ryan, on fighting “historical amnesia” with “Difference Machines: Technology & Identity in Contemporary Art,” a major survey she curated at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. “We’re trying to help people understand that the production of difference is intrinsic to computation,” Ryan states. “Where do we go from here?”
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