In partnership with LIFT & Charles Street Video
+ Featuring artworks by Kenzie Housego
+ Curated by Evangeline Y Brooks
July 11 – August 10, 2024
📍 InterAccess (950 Dupont St)
📍 Charles Street Video (76 Geary Ave)
📍 LIFT (1137 Dupont St)
Kenzie Housego’s series I❤U explores contemporary courtship by investigating the evolving behaviors surrounding dating rituals from the past to the present. Colourful layered textile-based practice integrates technological elements to enable public engagement and dialogue. The work highlights the transmission, interpretation, and occasional misinterpretation of romantic communication through screens, examining how digital culture mediates these exchanges through coded symbols that may not always convey their intended meaning.
The three artworks on view with Vector Festival 2024 (Emoji Bot, Hot Bot, and Flirt Bot) have local phone numbers displayed with them which viewers can text.
Through the invitation of artwork interactivity, viewers shift from passive observers to active co-producers as they engage with the digital media, experience other points of view, and ultimately, form their own meanings.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kenzie Housego
Multidisciplinary artist Kenzie Housego’s practice includes textiles, embroidery, new-media, and assemblage mediums. The use of technology such as LEDs, Arduino micro-controllers, texting, and screens within her research is symbolic of the virtual realms in which we participate as a society. Her recent series “I❤U” combines craft and technology to explore contemporary courtship, technology, and historical signs and signifiers connected to dating and romance. Housego’s artwork often offers an invitation for interactivity, encouraging viewers to shift from passive observers to active co-producers as they engage with the digital media, experiencing other points of view, and ultimately forming their own individual meanings.
ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION
Artworks are viewable from the sidewalk at street level.
Reach out to art @ interaccess.org with any questions or requests leading up to the event.
Image courtesy of Kenzie Housego