LabSynthE was thrilled to take over an all-gender bathroom in Wichita from January – December 2024. As this work closes, new projects emerge. We’re heading to Nice, France for an installation at Grotte du Lazaret in March 2025.
This year for Halloween, the lab has opened its doors to celebrate Halloween! Stop by to play a sweet game of Guess the Logo for some sweet treats! This year the game was based on the idea of extracting a small crop on a candy bar logo and asking the kids to guess the logo. Hershey’s is most easily identified. Nestle’s Crunch is often mistaken for M&Ms, and Twix could be the most difficult.
xtine burrough playing the game in 2011 with neighborhood kids.
Join us this fall as we embark on a mixed media project that combines cyanotype printing, fabric, and interactivity. We’ve been running tests on Thursdays 1-2:30pm in the lab, ATC 1.106.
Hug Me! All of Me! At last a bad romance…
In this workshop participants will create two datasets for playful computation: phrases that appear on conversation heart candies and titles of anti-love songs. During Love Data Week (February 12-16, 2024) we will make computational poetry at the intersection of these two datasets. Charm your valentine with a candy-infused poem, or send your ex poetic spam.
LabSynthE is a laboratory for synthetic and electronic poetry. This workshop will be presented in hybrid form. Join us in the lab, ATC 1.601 or on Teams on one or both days. Email xtine(at)utdallas(dot)edu for a link to the Teams meeting:
Tuesday 2/13 12-1pm Create datasets
Wednesday 2/14 2-3:30pm Write the code and enjoy some candy
We are installing our exhibition at the East Flushing Gallery in The Ulrich Museum of Art on the campus of Wichita State University today. Please join us at the opening tomorrow, January 25th, 5:30-8:30pm.
Opening Friday November 18, 2022
JOIN US ON TEAMS, 12-1pm
Join us on Teams this Friday at noon for an exhibition walk-through of MOTHER’S ROOM with curator Liz Trosper, and an introduction to the New Art City platform by founder Don Hanson.
“We have all inhabited the matrix, the first place, for nine months.” – Michel Serres
“We all share the same origin, our mothers; all of us come in at the same door.” – Herman Hesse
How has it come to be that the architecture of the womb is so ignored in aesthetic discourse? The first place. The first door. The first portal. In 1966, Niki de Saint Phaille constructed the temporary architectural installation, Hon, and in the intervening 56 years, no sustained discourse has taken place.
“It was a sensation, but the day after the opening we had no press. We had a press showing, but nothing was published in the newspapers. Because nobody knew what to think or say …” – Pontus Hulten, Director of the Moderna Museet of Stockholm
MOTHER’S ROOM picks up this conversational thread, bringing you a hybrid exhibition featuring the work of Maedeh Asgharpour, Tra Bouscaren, xtine burrough, Rachel Finkelstein, LabSynthE, Roxanne Minnish, Andrew Scott and the LightSquad, Cythia O’Neill, Susan Sanders-Rosenberg and Judy Walgren.
Philosopher Michel Serres calls the womb the matrix, the cave and the first place. MOTHER’S ROOM is a virtual and physical exhibition examining the intersection of space, particularly institutional space, women’s bodies and reproduction. The project is centered on the idea of space in art as a fielding ground for theoretical discourse and the ways that space can reflect and reinforce systemic control of women’s bodies, reproduction and caregiving.
Hosted on the New Art City platform virtually and by LabSynthE and the Office Hours project space (Trosper’s office, ATC1.909), the project engages artists to manifest a body of creative research, internet art objects and installations.
We’re kicking off the fall with an Open House during the AHT ONE Celebration on Friday, October 7 at 5pm. Stop by to say hello and see what we have been working on. Then join us on October 11th for our Mother’s Room REMIX sound editing event in room 1.601 from 12:30-2pm. All editing experiences welcome (including none at all!).
Mixed/Mask Paper Making Workshop During Comets Giving Days
Monday, Tuesday, Friday 4/4, 4/5, 4/8 Paper Making Workshop
Monday, Tuesday, Friday 4/11, 4/12, 4/15 Paper Making Workshop
12-1pm
No RSVP required
Drop in for 20 minutes during two separate days so your wet materials can dry between visits! Transform your mask to printable paper one day and print on it the next!
Friday 3/11 Ideas + Materials Workshop for the Pop-up Locker Exhibit
12-2pm
No RSVP required. Join us for help with your locker installation.
Spring 2022, “A Simple History” for Printemps des Poetes at Grotte du Lazaret
Documentation of LabSynthE’s emerging media exhibition in Lazaret Cave in Nice, France for the Spring of Poets. “A Simple History” ruminates on the 2022 theme, ephemeral, featuring a site-specific poem by Adrian Matejka and the voice of Trupa Trupa frontman Grzegorz Kwiatkowski.
Fall 2021-Spring 2022, NYU Mamdouha Bobst Gallery
This fall LabSynthE members will be exhibiting works as part of burrough & Starnaman’s Ceremonial Techne at Mamdouha S. Bobst Gallery at NYU. The lab’s collaborative projects Syntonic Refuge and One Breath Poem: Message for a Revolution, as well as An Imagined Genealogy of Michel Foucault, led by Ferreira and Yates, will be on display and available for interaction during fall 2021 and spring 2022.
