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Flarmingos

Kristin Lucas

FLARMINGO STOPOVER invites excursionists and wayfarers to mingle with flamingos in social, fun and ecologically-ethical ways through technological embodiment and magical realism. ā€œDance with flARmingos: Interspecies Danceā€ brings you into a flamingo world as a flamingo avatar and ā€œFLARMINGOSā€ lets you populate your surroundings with life-size augmented reality flamingos, pick up flamingo dance moves researched by scientists, listen to flamingo-inspired music, and adopt a wild flamingo

 

LOCATION: Governors Island, Nolan Park Building 8a

DATES AND TIMES:Ā  May 25 – October 21, 2018

TIMES:Ā  Fri. Sat. Sun and Holiday Mondays noon – 5 pm

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Artist Kristin LucasĀ plumbs the storytelling capacity ofĀ emergingĀ technologiesĀ and innovates playful new modes of experimentation thatĀ create pathways to agency. The Dance with flARmingo series is made in part through collaboration with artists, scientists, and technologists; and in partnership with aĀ conservation initiative through which Lucas sponsors wild flamingos.

Artist Bio

Lucas has presented her work nationally and internationally and is the recent recipient of a BAU Summer Arts Residency at the Camargo Foundation, Engadget Alternate Realities Grant, Eyebeam/Oregon Story Board/Upfor AR/VR Artist Research Residency, Harvestworks New Works Residency, NYSCA Media Arts Assistance Fund, Pioneer Works Tech Residency, and Print Screen Festival and Yafo Creative Digital Art Residency. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally, and is represented by And/Or Gallery in Los Angeles, and Postmasters and Electronic Arts Intermix in New York. She holds degrees from The Cooper Union and Stanford University, and teaches in the University of Texas at Austin art department.

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Kristin Lucas

Artist Kristin Lucas plumbs the storytelling capacity of emerging
technologies and innovates playful new modes of experimentation that create pathways
to agency. The Dance with flARmingo series is made in part through collaboration
with artists, scientists, and technologists; and in partnership with a conservation
initiative through which Lucas sponsors wild flamingos. Lucas has presented her work
nationally and internationally and is the recent recipient of a BAU Summer Arts
Residency at the Camargo Foundation, Engadget Alternate Realities Grant,
Eyebeam/Oregon Story Board/Upfor AR/VR Artist Research Residency, Harvestworks New
Works Residency, NYSCA Media Arts Assistance Fund, Pioneer Works Tech Residency, and
Print Screen Festival and Yafo Creative Digital Art Residency. Her work has been
presented nationally and internationally, and is represented by And/Or Gallery in
Los Angeles, and Postmasters and Electronic Arts Intermix in New York. She holds
degrees from The Cooper Union and Stanford University, and teaches in the University
of Texas at Austin art department.