CULTUS: Online Lecture Performance

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Join artist Zach Blas as he delves into the key concepts behind his new work CULTUS.

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In this online lecture performance, Zach Blas delves into the key concepts behind his new work CULTUS. Taking us through research into organisations like The Way of The Future Church, theories like Ray Kurzweil's spiritual machine, and transhumanism in sci-fi and religion, Blas traces the emergence of an AI-based religiosity, where human flesh transforms into biometric data, and emotional tears are transformed into a symbolic language of sacred quantification.The performance lecture will be followed by a conversation with arebyte curator Rebecca Edwards exploring the installation further. Join the event here: <a href="https://youtube.com/live/ei4iMEvbNvU?feature=share" title="https://youtube.com/live/ei4iMEvbNvU?feature=share" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://youtube.com/live/ei4iMEvbNvU?feature=share</a>***CULTUS is the second instalment of the Silicon Traces trilogy, a series of moving image installations that contends with the beliefs, fantasies, and histories influential to Silicon Valley’s visions of the future. ⁠CULTUS addresses a burgeoning AI religiosity in the tech industry, considering the ways in which artificial intelligence is imbued with god-like powers and marshalled to serve beliefs centred around judgement and transcendence, extraction and immortality, pleasure and punishment, individual freedom and cult devotion.Artist bioZach Blas (b. Point Pleasant, WV, US) is an artist, filmmaker, and writer whose practice spans moving image, computation, theory, performance, and science fiction. Recent artworks have addressed AI religiosity, the crystal balls of Silicon Valley, BDSM and surveillance, and smart drug psychedelia. Blas has exhibited, lectured, and held screenings at venues internationally, including the 12th Berlin Biennale, Walker Art Center, Tate Modern, British Art Show 9, 12th Gwangju Biennale, de Young Museum, the 68th Berlin International Film Festival, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ICA London, Van Abbemuseum, e-flux, ZKM Center for Art and Media, and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. His practice has been supported by the Arts Council England, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, a US Creative Capital award in Emerging Fields, the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His work is in the collections of Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, and Whitney Museum of American Art. Blas’s practice has been written about and featured in Artforum, Frieze, ArtReview, BBC, The Guardian, and The New York Times. His 2021 artist monograph Unknown Ideals is published by Sternberg Press. Blas is an Assistant Professor of Visual Studies in the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto.

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