COYOTES IN TWO DIRECTIONS

Art | Sci
Exhibition

COYOTES IN TWO DIRECTIONS

SARAH ROSALENA BRADY

EXHIBITION
7 Jun 2018 -
5:00pm to 7:00pm

CNSI Building at UCLA
Art | Sci Center Gallery, 5th Floor

Coyotes in Two Directions is a new body of works by Sarah Rosalena Brady. Coyotes in Two Directions examines the signifier of the trickster and shapeshifter as a symbolic metaphor to create techno-hybrid forms. Coyotes are symbolic in mythology and present in Western urban landscapes as one of the most successful animals surviving the Anthropocene. Emergent forms are employed through sculpture, automata, and 3D scans.

Sarah Rosalena Brady is an interdisciplinary artist working in new media, sculpture, and sound based in Los Angeles. Her work explores alternative structures using digital technologies and computation to refigure objects under colonization. Brady weaves technologies of the past and future to explore the limits of systems (linguistic, mathematical, environmental) to point where they break down and create new possibilities. She challenges Western ideological systems to imply a different contextual model that is transformative and transformational: a shapeshifter. Shapeshifting reformation aims to develop chimeras or techno-hybrids through the lenses of artificial life and biopolitics to reauthorize power. Her work has been presented at San Francisco Cinematheque, Gray Area Art and Technology, SOMArts Cultural Center, Fylkingen (SE), Northwest Film Forum, and the deYoung Museum. She was recently awarded the Steve Wilson Fellowship from Leonardo, Internation Society for Arts, Sciences, and Technology.