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Technological Perseverance
SVA presents 鈥淭echnological Perseverance,鈥� an exhibition featuring selected works by over 25 faculty members and alumni from MFA Computer Arts, curated by the program鈥檚 Assistant Director for Innovation Technologies, Rochele Gloor. The exhibition will be on view from Monday, November 1, through Saturday, November 22, 2025, at the SVA Flatiron Gallery and the Flatiron Project Space, 133 W 21st St., New York City.
鈥淭echnological Perseverance鈥� explores the human capacity to endure, adapt, innovate, and overcome in the face of adversity. Here, unexpected outcomes are part of the artistic discovery, highlighting perseverance as the act of continuing forward with determination and curiosity. Organized around four interconnected subthemes鈥攏ature, human, technology, and abstraction鈥攖he featured works span video, sound, print, installation, animation, interactivity, and augmented reality. Together, they invite audiences to reflect on the emotional and creative resilience that defines an evolving relationship between technology and humans.
Highlights from the exhibition include two videos and an installation by alumna and robotics art pioneer Adrianne Wortzel (1995), The Sentient Thespian, which explores the potential and limitations of human-robotic communication, and Veils of Transference, which depicts a psychoanalytic session between a robot and a human. So Many Different Things, by Sakshi Jain (2019), features over 1500 one-centimeter collections of things drawn sequentially and animated, and displayed on a mini TV. Killivalavan Solai鈥檚 (2012) Cooking in a Maasai Kitchen - Tanzania offers a glimpse into Maasai daily life, capturing meal preparation at noon and sunset inside their traditional hut using an interactive 360-degree photo. Other represented MFA Computer Arts alumni include Christa Majoras (2025), James Porto (2020), Jessica Reisch (2024), John Cinco (1998), Jose Carlos Casado (2001), Justin Dormitzer (2024), Linda Loh (2021), Lulu Jiang (2016), Valerie Polgar (2010), Wei-Lun Ting (2024), Yifei Jin (2023), as well as thesis student and lab assistant Ronnie Ahlborn.
Faculty and thesis lead Lisa LaBracio鈥檚 (BFA 2006 Animation) installation comprises logs and bark used as organic materials for two stop-motion videos: Improv with Pine Bark, made from over 100 pieces of pine bark of varying sizes using a method called "replacement frame animation;鈥� and Log Jam #1. Hans Tammen will install Water Boatmen, a hydrophone that records underwater sounds in a pond and plays them through a parametric speaker. Thesis student and lab assistant Zack Dresher will assist in Tammen鈥檚 installation. Ada Whitney鈥檚 There Will Be Blood shows the dark side of the AI dilemma and its societal costs, a dimming of original expression marked by a black fingerprint. Other faculty members in the exhibition include Adam Meyers, Anney Bonney (2008), Benton Bainbridge, John Benton, Mark Ingle, Terry Dame, and Trilby Schreiber with her ASCII artwork Self-Portrait w/Ampersand Earring.
The poster for the exhibition was created by thesis student and lab assistant Akshita Yadav, featuring Reveal, one of the works on view in this exhibition by Anney Bonney (2008).
SVA presents 鈥淭echnological Perseverance,鈥� an exhibition featuring selected works by over 25 faculty members and alumni from MFA Computer Arts, curated by the program鈥檚 Assistant Director for Innovation Technologies, Rochele Gloor. The exhibition will be on view from Monday, November 1, through Saturday, November 22, 2025, at the SVA Flatiron Gallery and the Flatiron Project Space, 133 W 21st St., New York City.
鈥淭echnological Perseverance鈥� explores the human capacity to endure, adapt, innovate, and overcome in the face of adversity. Here, unexpected outcomes are part of the artistic discovery, highlighting perseverance as the act of continuing forward with determination and curiosity. Organized around four interconnected subthemes鈥攏ature, human, technology, and abstraction鈥攖he featured works span video, sound, print, installation, animation, interactivity, and augmented reality. Together, they invite audiences to reflect on the emotional and creative resilience that defines an evolving relationship between technology and humans.
Highlights from the exhibition include two videos and an installation by alumna and robotics art pioneer Adrianne Wortzel (1995), The Sentient Thespian, which explores the potential and limitations of human-robotic communication, and Veils of Transference, which depicts a psychoanalytic session between a robot and a human. So Many Different Things, by Sakshi Jain (2019), features over 1500 one-centimeter collections of things drawn sequentially and animated, and displayed on a mini TV. Killivalavan Solai鈥檚 (2012) Cooking in a Maasai Kitchen - Tanzania offers a glimpse into Maasai daily life, capturing meal preparation at noon and sunset inside their traditional hut using an interactive 360-degree photo. Other represented MFA Computer Arts alumni include Christa Majoras (2025), James Porto (2020), Jessica Reisch (2024), John Cinco (1998), Jose Carlos Casado (2001), Justin Dormitzer (2024), Linda Loh (2021), Lulu Jiang (2016), Valerie Polgar (2010), Wei-Lun Ting (2024), Yifei Jin (2023), as well as thesis student and lab assistant Ronnie Ahlborn.
Faculty and thesis lead Lisa LaBracio鈥檚 (BFA 2006 Animation) installation comprises logs and bark used as organic materials for two stop-motion videos: Improv with Pine Bark, made from over 100 pieces of pine bark of varying sizes using a method called "replacement frame animation;鈥� and Log Jam #1. Hans Tammen will install Water Boatmen, a hydrophone that records underwater sounds in a pond and plays them through a parametric speaker. Thesis student and lab assistant Zack Dresher will assist in Tammen鈥檚 installation. Ada Whitney鈥檚 There Will Be Blood shows the dark side of the AI dilemma and its societal costs, a dimming of original expression marked by a black fingerprint. Other faculty members in the exhibition include Adam Meyers, Anney Bonney (2008), Benton Bainbridge, John Benton, Mark Ingle, Terry Dame, and Trilby Schreiber with her ASCII artwork Self-Portrait w/Ampersand Earring.
The poster for the exhibition was created by thesis student and lab assistant Akshita Yadav, featuring Reveal, one of the works on view in this exhibition by Anney Bonney (2008).
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