Conversation with LACMA curator Britt Salvesen and artist Daniel Canogar, 3:00 PM

Please join LACMA curator Britt Salvesen and artist Daniel Canogar for a conversation at INTERREALITY in The Desmond Tower. 

Britt Salvesen joined LACMA in October 2009 as curator and head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department and the Prints and Drawings Department. Previously, she was director and chief curator at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP), University of Arizona. Prior to joining CCP, Salvesen was associate curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Milwaukee Art Museum and associate editor of scholarly publications at the Art Institute of Chicago. She received her MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art and her PhD from the University of Chicago.

Born in Madrid (1964) to an American mother and Spanish father, Daniel Canogar’s life and career have bridged between Spain and the U.S. Photography was his earliest medium of choice, receiving a M.A. from NYU at the International Center of Photography in 1990. He soon became interested in the possibilities of the projected image and installation art. He has created permanent public art installations with LED screens, including Brushstrokes, a permanent LED screen artwork for the new DeKa Bank headquarters' lobby (Frankfurt, 2022), among others. He has also created public monumental artworks in different media such as Oculus, a generative animation featured on Novartis Pavillon zero-media façade (Basel, Switzerland, 2022), among others. He has exhibited extensively in major museums and galleries across the world, including Reina Sofia Art Museum, Madrid; Palacio de Velázquez, Madrid, etc.

Panel Discussion with Right Click Save Editor-in-Chief Alex Estorick, 4:30 PM

Please join Right Click Save Editor-in-Chief Alex Estorick for a conversation about the current state of digital art and the importance of preserving an art world defined by radical inclusivity. Since the NFT explosion of 2021, Right Click Save (RCS) has become the leading online magazine for digital art around the world, documenting a new community of creators and collectors while driving critical conversations about emerging technology. To celebrate the launch of the magazine's limited edition book, Right Click Save: The New Digital Art Community, Alex Estorick hosts a special conversation with artists, curators, and writers who are all driving inclusive conversations around digital art right now. Speakers will include Gretchen Andrew, Katie Peyton Hofstadter, Peter Wu+ and Zsofi Valyi-Nagy.

Panel Discussion with artists Gretchen Andrew and Siebren Versteeg, 6:00 PM

Please join artists Gretchen Andrew and Siebren Versteeg and their partners at MATRLabs and ARSNL for a unique public program that transcends the gallery walls and transports you directly into remote studio spaces with MATRLabs, home to some of the world’s most advanced machines for making digital dreams physical reality. Blur the lines between physical and digital as you watch Gretchen’s robotic face-tuning portraits firsthand while she discusses how the new series enters the world in simultaneous digital and physical form through the key partnerships of MATRLabs and ARSNL. Meanwhile Siebren Versteeg will take individual requests from attendees and manipulate his algorithms that scrape the internet for images to produce painterly collages that are erotic, prophetic, sometimes terrifying, often humorous and always revelatory.