• A screenshot from BlueSuburbia showing a digital 3D skill in an abstract space.
    Screenshot from "BlueSuburbia" (2024) by Nathalie Lawhead
  • Live Walkthroughs: Nathalie Lawhead

    Thursday May 8, 7-9pm

    In-Person/Online at twitch.tv

    Free/$10 suggested donation

     

    6-7pm: Open Studios with Project Space Resident Tetsuya Maruyama

     

    Nathalie Lawhead is a net-artist and game designer that has been creating experimental digital art since the late 1990s. Lawhead’s art exists in the complex intersection between art and games and they are a proponent for and creator of widely used open source, DIY digital tools. Lawhead’s work has been featured in places like the Rhizome ArtBase and in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Lawhead’s recent project, BlueSuburbia, a haunted, interactive poem, is featured in the exhibition SEQUENCEBREAK//.

    Join us May 8 for an experimental “let’s play” of Lawhead’s artists’ games with the artist and VSW Assistant Curator Nilson Carroll. Serving as a hybrid “artist talk,” game walkthrough, and Twitch stream, this online and in-person event will be an opportunity for exploration, sharing insight, and community connection. The opposite of a “speedrun” (a competitive, efficient way of playing a video game), this walkthrough encourages dialogue between artist and audience.

     


     

    SEQUENCEBREAK// is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the William & Sheila Konar Foundation.

    Logos for NYSCA, NEA, and Konar Foundation