Will Holub, Sheboygan
How do you study the future of humankind? How might artists, thinkers, and creatives envision ideas, innovations, imaginings, hopes, fears, and dreams about the future of life? Artificial Intelligence and space exploration are just some of the current technological innovations that will change the future of humanity. Will we be able to digitally upload our personalities and consciousness in the future? Will we be able to eradicate global poverty and disease, or combat climate change? Will independent, free-thinking AI robots guide us toward universal good and unity, or threaten our very existence?
The word futurology was first coined by Professor Ossip K. Flechtheim (1909 – 1998), a German jurist and political scientist who later proposed it as a branch of knowledge. According to the Free Dictionary, futurology is the study of forecasting of potential developments, as in science, technology, and society, using current conditions and trends as a point of departure. Simply put - it is the study of what might happen in the future (Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary).
Max Tegmark’s book, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence posits, "In recent decades, futurology has become a significant area of research, and futurologists and professional change-makers are using statistics, game and systems theories, and speculation to predict technological advances, new social norms and changes in market forces.”
We invite all creatives to share their own visions of the future. Through our ongoing open call, the virtual exhibition fu-tur-ol-o-gy invites you to transform an eye-mask shaped “canvas” template, provided by ECOCA, to explore your hopes, dreams, fears, and predictions and be part of collective virtual tapestry.
Debbie Hesse
ECOCA Curator
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
ECOCA Show Sees A Future In The Future | July 22, 2021
fu·tur·ol·o·gy
June 13 - August 22, 2021
Inspired by our previous exhibition COVIMETRY, created by Mark Starel & Discursive Geometry, fu·tur·ol·o·gy looks beyond this current time, envisioning what our future might hold. You are invited to select a canvas template and participate in this growing project which will present our collective vision both utopian and dystopic of hope, despair, fear, beauty, love and peace.
Participating Artists to date:
Laurey Bennett-Levy (USA)
Cynthia Cooper (USA)
Christina Geoghegan (Ireland)
Jacquelyn Gleisner (USA)
Will Holub (USA)
Fritz Horstman (USA)
Insook Hwang (USA/Korea)
Eva Lee (USA)
Dana McHale (USA)
Susan McHale (USA)
Anne Russinof (USA)
Tony Saunders (USA)
Sarah Schneiderman (USA/Dutch Caribbean)
Jeff Slomba (USA)
Jessica Smolinski (USA)
Ellen Weider (USA)
Holly Wong (USA)
Featured Artist: Eva Lee
Eva Lee, Eye Spy (2021), on-site video installation, 5 min 10 sec.
On view at ECOCA through August 22nd
Eye Spy is a fu·tur·ol·o·gy exploration of water and its connection with life and human mindsets. Its title is a reference to the I Spy game in which players take turns guessing the answer to the statement one player, who is the spy, poses: "I spy with my little eye something that begins with the letter..."
Eye Spy invites viewers to observe the world presented and play the game. Players may guess what the spy’s letter is, what word it stands for, and what it means for the future.
