Artificial Intelligence may soon cure your neighbor’s cancer. More likely, it will put you out of a job. And that might just be a prelude to its destroying all of mankind. Hide from it, ignore it, embrace it … it seems pretty clear from people in the know that AI is about to drastically alter our world. Aimee Odum is one of those embracing it.
Read MoreThe Space Itself, an independent exhibition of sculpture, video and drawing, questions what it means to be human at a time of increasing uncertainty, division and digital isolation. The artists in the exhibition express these feelings in uncanny and playful ways, re-examining how to embody critical experiences or navigate through day-to-day routines.
Read MoreOne of the things that I’m first struck by with your work is the relationship between the ceramic – which has these really luscious textures and forms - alongside technology. I don’t know if I’ve seen that combination too many times before – you really put it front and center in your work. - Jessamyn Fiore
Read MoreArts+Leisure is excited to announce Infinite Infinite, an exhibition of new work by Aimee Odum. Melding video, ceramics, and fragments of a variety of sculptural and technological materials, Odum forges a dialogue between nature and technology, juxtaposing physical tactility with the conditions of the digital screen.
Read MoreJust as an ‘emotional hangover’ may influence any retained memories in one’s consciousness, so do the shadowy and sprawling works in “Persistence of Future Memories.” Odum’s ceramics mold to a site unseen, giving to a passage that must grow and adapt to its new surroundings. The healthy formation of minds-eye remembrances steer the future, “Persistence of Future Memories” allows hope to bring us to an alternative reality, joyfully allowing our own recollections to connect, adapt and befitted as bold memoirs.
Read MoreA trip down into a quixotic archive of image and text form the core experience at Arts + Leisure at Satellite Art Show. The space showed artist Aimee M. Odum’s Horizon Lines work in a series of videos and photo/text artworks by Jessica Wynne that probed notions of geographic orientation and identity.
Read MoreWhat if Thoreau had had an iPhone? He’d be posting pictures of his shack at Walden on Instagram. Imagine his selfies. Today, technology makes visions of nature available at a keystroke. In “Nearly Not There,” at GRIN, two artists tackle how personal devices frame the wild for us by pairing screens with sculpture, a tension that’s purposefully hard to resolve. Sculptures confront us in our own space; screens beckon us into imaginative ones.
Read MoreNearly Not There, a collaborative exhibition by Hannah Newman and Aimee Odum, presents a series of tangible manifestations of such wanderlust-fueled languishing, but also offers an extension of that ever-present itch; the added burden of managing digital and technological could-bes; the constant and expanding familiar unknowns that are a veritable Shrodinger’s cat of real-life experience.
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