Hi, I"m not sure how to post an event, so I just have added these two events as a discussion. If you live in NYC, try to make these shows in January! I'll post comments after I see them myself.

Laurie

 
Sara Krugman exhibit at The Flux Factory, 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NY

The Aesthetics of Health Care Technology 

January 14 - 21 

Opening Friday, January 14, 8 pm

This body of work is a collection of Sara Krugman's aesthetic research on the possibilities of health care technology. Originally based in sculpture and installation, Krugman is working towards practical and literal use of these aesthetics. The Aesthetics of Health Care Technology is a mix of science, artistic research and the artist's personal exploration of the relationship between human and machine. Krugman's practice as an artist and designer has merged with her experience living with Type I diabetes. Her work explores how the physicality and aesthetics of health care technology affect the emotional and psychological connection to intimate machines, and further, how that connection effects our ability to use the highly developed functions of these machines as well as practice self care. Inspired by Louise Bourgeois' brutal use of the body's form, Sherry Turkle's understanding and research of the human-machine relationship and Ray Kurzweil's work towards humans successful integration with technology, Krugman's work is geared towards inciting change in health care technology. It is the artist's hope that this work illuminates the importance of the physical and emotional relationship between humans and the technology we use to assist our own bodies.

Sara Krugman's website: http://sarakrugman.com/

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