THINKING OUTSIDE THE 'NET: THE BOX THAT COULD TALK
| Date start | 01.19.18 |
| Date end | 01.19.17 |
| Start Time | 7pm |
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| Admission | Free |
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| Associated Program | Welcome to my Homepage · IRL |
IRL and Welcome to my Homepage present the IRL exhibition THINKING OUTSIDE THE 'NET: THE BOX THAT COULD TALK by Hiba Ali.
Project Description
“One day a box came, it fell from the stars and showed us the power of a utopian vision! The box promised global connectivity and cultural exchange through the glutton nature of capital. Regardless of its personality, the box plummeted to stardom. The box lived up to some promises and broke others. Despite the box’s busy schedule, Hiba Ali was able to snag an interview.”
This exhibition features dual-part installations about Hiba Ali’s arts-based humanities research on “flows,” the capital of technology and commodity culture; featuring a video and an installation. The Welcome to my Homepage residency provides an artist with a one month occupancy of their website where the artist is free to change the webpage(s) accordingly. For Hiba Ali’s December residency, she focused on the dismantling of net neutrality through two reading groups; where particular attention was paid to a communal exchange of information between participants. At MoHA, readings from the reading groups sessions, “Fiber Optics, Gender and Race” and “Surveillance and Agency” are printed to be read by visitors. The reading groups cumulatively address the framing of net neutrality’s dismantling through parsing the (hidden) history of American internet, its infrastructure, policy-making and reverberating sociological affects.
Artist Bio
Hiba Ali is a new media artist and writer based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. She holds two undergraduate degrees from the School of the Art Institute Chicago with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film, Video, New Media and Animation and a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Critical Studies. She has worked with diverse populations and community organizing and employs digital technology in ways that empower people. Her sculptural installations focus on the history of objects that are produced from global circuits and their embedded codes, encompassing both the technological and sociological. She is a graduate student at UT Austin pursuing her MFA degree in Transmedia. She has exhibited in Chicago (IL), New York (NY), Istanbul (TR), Detroit (MI), Ann Arbor (MI), Toronto (CA), London (UK) and Dubai (UAE).
