Spiritual Technology

Daily, beginning at 6pm

Spiritual Technology features three artists exploring how relations between spirituality and technology shift over time, including links between science, myth, belief systems, and our connection to the planet. Science fiction holds up a mirror to our potential futures and to our present. The works in this exhibition tease apart tensions between techno-utopian promises and intuitive connections to the biological world.

Cannupa Hanska Luger’s (b. 1979, Standing Rock Reservation, North Dakota) We Live Future Ancestral Technologies Entry Log (2019) is an Indigenous science fiction film wherein two figures perform land-based rituals, wearing regalia that mutes the senses. The film describes a mass exodus from earth by those who destroyed much of it, and those remaining behind to repair it.

Ursula Mayer’s (b. 1970, Ried im Innkreis, Austria) Atom Spirit (2016) is also set in the near future, one of increasing biomedical innovation. Made with individuals from the LGBT community in Trinidad and Tobago, the work follows a group of evolutionary geneticists creating a cryogenically frozen arc of DNA from all forms of life on the islands.

In Suzanne Treister’s (b. 1982, London, England) HFT The Gardener (2015), Hillel Fisher Traumberg is a stock trader who experimented with various hallucinogenic states while watching high-frequency algorithmic trading graph patterns. Eventually, Traumberg began felt himself one with the code, producing an entire lexicon of paired connections between psychoactive plant names and companies on the Financial Times Global 500 index.

Organized by Melanie Kress, High Line Art Associate Curator.