Carla Gannis
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About the Artist
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Carla Gannis is an American transmedia artist based in New York and a professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Her art is characterized by a commitment to experimentation. Throughout her career, she has worked with an array of mediums and tools, including drawing, painting, video, interactivity, extended reality, and machine learning. Her multilayered narratives explore identity within an atomized and hyperreal 21st-century context – capturing the spirit of our rapidly shifting visual and technological times through blending historical art influences with contemporary digital semiotics and speculative fiction.
Gannis’s work has been exhibited globally in exhibitions, screenings, and internet projects. Her most recent projects include “Networked Nature” at the Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN (2024); “wwwunderkammer” at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC (2023); and “Welcome to the wwwunderkammer” at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (2022). Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Kunstforum, El PaÍs, ARTNews, The LA Times, among others. She is a Year 7 Alum of NEW INC, in the XR: Bodies in Space track, New York, NY. |
aRTIST statement
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Gannis frequently merges algorithmic processes with tactile interventions, transforming AI-generated or digitally rendered imagery into intimate physical artifacts through the incorporation of traditional materials like paint, found objects, and sculptural elements. Across moving image, sculpture, and hybrid forms, her practice resists the frictionless pace of digital culture, instead slowing the process to reveal hidden histories and overlooked narratives. Gannis invites viewers to reconsider the boundaries between virtual and tangible experience, standing at the intersection of technological innovation and traditional art-making. Her work occupies a space between disruption and contemplation, beauty and distortion, ultimately asking us to rethink how we look at the worlds we inhabit and the futures we are shaping.
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