Discover this amazing project that is at the intersection of art, code, tech and science: Exploration

What is this talk about?

How can humans hope to transmit our cultural heritage into the future when humanity’s entire existence is a mere blink of an eye on a cosmic time scale? What does this sense of scale—of the vastness of time and space—means for art? Utilizing a post-New Media approach, wherein the media employed are merely vehicles in service of underlying concepts, I am attempting the process of translating our vast history into a universal language meant to stand the test of time. By fabricating traditional objects in dual forms—as the classical entity and the data that represent them—my work seeks to focus a lens on our place as a small part of a larger whole. By drawing my inspiration from historical ideas and icons I am coding the essence of humanity into works of art—art for the singularity.

Why should I attend?

My name is Ashley Zelinskie and I am an artist that sometimes feels the size of a pixel. But once one comes to terms with your scale, what does that mean for your art? This is a question I grapple with through my work, especially as a woman in the world of digital art, where my place feels increasingly minimized. I will discuss methods of visualizing data in abstract forms and finding new and interesting ways to describe complex ideas, and the challenges I face as a woman artist working at these intersections of art, technology and mathematics.