Thumbs That Type and Swipe: The DIS Edutainment Network
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Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art 460 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 0E8
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is excited to announce our summer exhibition, Thumbs That Type and Swipe: The DIS Edutainment Network by the New York based artist collective DIS. Framing our first session of the Summer Institute led by Marco Roso and DIS collaborators, this exhibition sets the stage with an installation of images, text, colour, and a video compilation that resembles, as Roso articulates: “something like MTV meets Adult Swim and PBS.”
A collective formed in 2010, DIS has been DISmagazine, DISown and DISimages. They curate, make installations and objects, and operate as a hybrid voice that crosses disciplines. In this multi-fold manner of production that frequently shifts identities, DIS questions the very value of segregating modes of making into specific fields of production or defined viewership.
In Thumbs That Type and Swipe: The DIS Edutainment Network, DIS presents a program of videos from their website dis.art that range between documentary, instructional video and self-help guide. It features the work of over 19 artists and critical thinkers from Babak Radboy to Casey Jane Ellison and Ryan Trecatin. This video program is set within an installation that at first glance resembles tradeshow booths or world-fair pavilions, their agenda being critical of economic interconnections between commerce and state; the alignment of popular culture with consumers; and controlled flows of information through technology.
We are extremely pleased to have DIS member Marco Roso lead the first Session of our Summer Institute (June 25-July 7, 2018). Please join us for one or all of the associated public programs:
Visiting Speakers
Tuesday, June 26 | 6pm: Screening of Reparation Hardware and talk with Ilana Harris-Babou
Tuesday, July 3 | 6pm: Screening of 60 million Americans can't be wrong and artist talk with Christopher Kulendran Thomas
Thursday, July 5 | 6pm: Talk by Economist Evelyn Forget
Date TBD: Artist talk by Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Friday, June 29 | 6pm: Talk by Architect Nerea Calvillo
Video Speaker Series
Open to the Public
Monday, June 25 | 4pm: Screening ofThe Seasteaders and Conversation with Daniel Keller and Jacob Hurwitz Goodman
Wednesday, June 27 | 6pm: Conversation with Hannah Black
Friday, June 29 | 11am: Conversation with Simon Denny
Summer Institute Only
Thursday, June 28 | 11am: Screening and conversation