Eliasson's project poses the question, 'What does extinction or a shrinking lake sound and look like?' This framing encourages viewers to reflect on their responsibility as stewards of the lake.
At Cornell Tech, Backslash artists collaborate with students and researchers to push both art and technology into unexpected territory. Liu, for example, partnered with information science student Soul Choi, M.S. '22 to experiment with artificial intelligence. Together, they trained models on activist narratives, factory workers' social media posts and feminist texts - exploring whether technology could safeguard these stories or, through its own biases and blind spots, risk erasing them.
He grew up between the French capital and Bab el Oued, a suburb of Algiers in Algeria, and his Algerian-French identity and the culture and history of Europe and North Africa-the global north and south-have profoundly informed his subject matter and materials. His work across three decades in photography, collage, sculpture, installation and sound, is concerned with a central concept: repair. By association, the notion of repair is inevitably connected with violence and injury.