iEAR Salon presents: Jenn E Norton

iEAR Salon presented Jenn E. Norton, curated by Arma Yari on October 26, 2022.
MORE ABOUT iEAR Salon: The Arts Department at RPI presented the 2022 “iEAR Salon” virtual series exploring sense-abilities and environmental bodies, curated by the Arts Graduate Colloquium of Rensselaer. Mutli-disciplinary artists and thinkers Ursula Biemann, Timothy Morton, Jenn E Norton, Jaguar Mary X, and Špela Petrič addressed topics of deep ecology, alternative ways of knowing and new figurations of being-in-place.
This series is sponsored by iEAR Presents! and the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer, in collaboration with The Sanctuary for Independent Media’s NATURE Lab initiative, and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature. iEAR Salon is curated by the Ph.D students of Arts Graduate Colloquium, Fall 2022: Nina Isabelle, John Santomieri, Hanae Utamura, Allie ES Wist, Arma Yari with Arts Graduate Colloquium Professor Branda Miller; iEAR Presents! curated by Kathy High and Branda Miller.
MORE ABOUT JENN E. NORTON:
Jenn E Norton is an artist using time-based media to create immersive, experiential installations using stereoscopic, interactive video, animation, augmented reality, geolocative sound, and kinetic sculpture. Often using video as a starting point within her process, her imaginative compositions use a combination of pre-cinema and contemporary display technologies while exploring the blurring boundaries of virtual and physical realms. Norton’s recent animations and augmented reality apps draw upon her interest in the ways in which information is exchanged between humans, technology, and, as seen in her recent solo exhibition in Montreal (ELLEPHANT|Art), plants. Current research areas within Norton’s practice explore the use of metaphor in physics as a conceptual genesis, communicative device, poetic practice, and demonstrative application of technological and natural phenomena. Norton has shown her work nationally and internationally, with upcoming exhibitions in Nuit Blanche (Toronto), Platforms (Athens), Berlin (public augmented reality series), and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Visual Arts at York University and is an Assistant Professor in Film + Media at Queen’s University.
www.jennenorton.com/
MORE ABOUT THE CURATOR:
Arma Yari’s artistic approach is based on blending disciplines of art, technology and
engineering, and the incorporation of social issues, philosophical theories and scientific
methodologies that revolve around the notions of perception and reality. She is
frequently interested in creating immersive, experiential, and interactive spaces that
lead a momentary expansion of consciousness, allowing one to recapture a sense of
wonder through adopting temporary freedom from our habitual perceptions and
culturally-biased assumptions about being in the world. Arma Yari is currently living in Troy, NY, and studying in the PhD program of the Arts Department at Rensselaer.