Electronics Faire
Electronics Faire is an event started and organized by Hannah Tardie in 2024 to gather people together to learn and practice radical work with electronics. For the past two years I have co-curated with Hannah the exhibition protion of the faire. For more information about electronics faire, please visit the official electronics faire website.
2025 Low Tech
There’s tension in the premise of a Low Tech exhibition. By name low tech inverts the value system commonly ascribed to technology away from production method, service, and commodity towards something else. This inversion can be a framework, a feeling, a number, and all else that exists in the shared fantasy in which technology is no longer tethered to structural violence. This fantasy is ambivalent to technological advancement; it sutures time by recovering that which was lost, forgotten, and left behind by positioning them as something relevant. Low Tech is not a consequence but rather a point of inquiry.
The exhibition assembles work from fourteen artists working in a variety of media. Many works are made from recovered materials, such as wood thrown away during industrial elevator construction, unaccounted data from modern image processing, image transfer negatives, and the electronics inside of a broken insulin pump. Others display a panoply of technological methods and outcomes such as antique electronic phones, handmade electronic instruments, bone conduction, hand-altered film for motion pictures, and low powered devices. The curation of pieces in the show is an offering to indulge in the tension held by Low Tech and maybe even join in our fantasy.
With work from: Catia Colagioia, Charlie Manion, David Rios, Francesca Lally, Gregory Kramer, Hannah Tardie, Jamison Mead, Jazmyn Crosby, Kelly Chen + Caleb Chase, Logan Crompton, Maddie Brucker, Noah Kernis, Ollie Goss, Cristhian Varela and Rachael Henson.
2024 Interleave
Interleave features a sample of works from artists involved in Electronics Faire—a one-day event at the Charles library on April 26, 2024. In computing, interleaving arranges disparate data into a more manageable sequence. Every time you interact with a storage disk in a computer, that disk utilizes interweaving amongst many other organizational designs.
The works in Interleave are linked in their attempt to hack technologies that pervasively surveil and discipline its users into works that suggest ways of being connected beyond violent frameworks. The works make use of analog video synthesis, diy waterproofed audio systems, homemade PCB fabrication, digital video sampling, coding, and data visualization. Interleave is a testament to artmaking as a tool of misuse and repair.
Featured Artists include: Emrys Brandt, Hannah Tardie Rashid Zakat, Justin Leggett, Will Hallett, Grant Bouvier, Ollie Goss, and Jazmyn Crosby.