Light Year 58: Digital Fairy Tales: Dark Nights and Black Cats

Juliane Pieper + Sea of Daisies, "Cat Man and Cat Ass Babe"

Gabor Kitzinger + Alex Hamadey, "Dark Nights / Black Cats"

Ana Bilankov + Carsten Schneider, "Three Women Under the Clouds"

Rani Messias, "Eclipse"

Sarah Oh-Mock + Theory, "Upgrade Now"

Lea Brugnoli + Carsten Schneider, "Backlighting"

Maria Naidyonova, "The Shadow of the Sun"

Radka Salcmannova, "Incantation"

Leo Kuelbs Collection

Light Year 58: Digital Fairy Tales: Dark Nights and Black Cats

February 6th, 2020

Dusk - 10pm

Opening Reception: Made in NY Media Center by IFP, 6-8pm

Featuring new work by: Maria Naidyonova, Rani Messias, Kitzinger Gabor with Alex Hamadey, Radka Salcmannova, Juliane Pieper with Sea of Daisies, Ana Bilankov, Lea Brugnoli with Carsten Schneider, Sarah Oh-Mock with Kriss Roebling and Theory

Curated by Leo Kuelbs with Sandra Ratkovic

Thanks to Erika Eischenseer and the von Schoenwerth Archive

Digital Fairy Tales: “Dark Nights and Black Cats”

Digital Fairy Tales: “Dark Nights and Black Cats” Is a new selection of dark tales taken from the Franz Xaver von Schoenwerth archive in Regensburg, Germany. Black cats dance as the doctors’ guts are exposed, frozen stockings thaw and death gets a new jacket of shadow, courtesy of the sun. Digital Fairy Tales: “Dark Nights and Black Cats” connects those who created the stories all those many years ago with a diverse selection of artists in our digital present. Collected in the early 19th century, these dark and twisted tales are perfect for a chilly winter’s eve.

The Digital Fairy Tales series uses old tales and themes as an initial context from which to consider our common humanity from our current digital realities and perspectives, through time, backwards and forwards. As we move further towards a “singularity” between AI and the terrestrial, the Digital Fairy Tales series seeks to remind us to not forget our shared histories and what it means to be a quality human being as we evolve towards the unknown.