'GLOBAL MODE >' @ Museum of Moving Image
GLOBAL MODE > @ MOMI
Location: MoMI Lobby on the Herbert S. Schlosser Media Wall
Opening Reception w/ Special Performance by MX Oops: Thursday, October 19, 6–8PM
Installation from Oct 20, 2023 — Feb 25, 2024
As part of our new collaboration with the MoMI, Onassis ONX Member Eva Davidova will be exhibiting GLOBAL MODE > in the museum lobby on the Herbert S. Schlosser Media Wall. This large-scale interactive installation will be on view from October 20 to February 25, 2024. RSVP below for the opening on October 19, 6-8PM.
About the installation:
Initially conceived in 2020 as a networked, participatory performance, Eva Davidova’s Global Mode > playfully incorporates both ancient myth and contemporary reality, highlighting the theme of interdependent responsibility in the wake of ecological disaster. The multichapter work spawns reimagined narratives, including “Prometheus Herding PigGooses,” “Narcissus and Drowning Animals,” “Cassandra > Low Witness Objects,” and “Birds Birth,” performed by Naicha Diaby, MX Oops, and Heather Mo’Witz. Each section embraces the rich and sometimes tumultuous interplay of politics, history, and climate change, encouraging reflection on our interconnected responsibilities in an era marked by urgent biological and environmental challenges.
Visitors are connected to animal avatars through the movement of their own bodies, creating a direct effect on the unfolding stories across the Media Wall. Moving away from the binary of winning or losing, the artwork allows for a more nuanced contemplation on the relationship between the self and community.
Global Mode > was commissioned by ISSUE Project Room & Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in 2020. The installation at MoMI is organized by Associate Curator of Media Arts Regina Harsanyi.
About the artist:
Eva Davidova (b. 1969, Bulgaria) is an interdisciplinary artist with a primary focus on digital media. Through her work, she explores the political implications of technology, incorporating performative elements rooted in the absurd to question the things we take for granted. Often “misusing” technology deliberately, Davidova seeks to disrupt its easy acceptance and the prevalent emotional manipulation enacted through both physical and informational architecture. Having exhibited globally, her resume includes appearances at the Bronx Museum, the UVP at Everson Museum, the AKG Buffalo Art Museum, MACBA Barcelona, CAAC Sevilla, Instituto Cervantes, and La Regenta.
Credits for Global Mode >
Featuring: Naicha Diaby, MX Oops, and Heather Mo’Witz. Original sound: Matthew D. Gantt. Interactions design & XR development: Danielle McPhatter. Second Camera: Daniela Kostova. Motion Capture: NYU Tandon School of Engineering Marcel Oliver-Rose Truxillo. Photo-scanning: NYCAP3D.
About digital media arts at the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI):
As the first museum to embrace the scope of the moving image as its subject, MoMI is a leading institution in the exhibition of media arts. Changing exhibitions focusing on this subject area have included Shigeko Kubota Video Sculpture (1991); Interactions/Art and Technology (2004), presented in conjunction with Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria); Real Virtuality (2011), six experiments in art and technology; JODI: Street Digital (2012); and Jim Campbell: Rhythms of Perception (2014). On view now: Refreshing the Loop, a series of installations in the Museum’s elevator that pairs the work of two artists in dialogue with each other; and Cinema of Sensations: The Never-Ending Screen of Val del Omar (closing Oct. 1).