Department
Design and Narrative Media/Prof. Oliver KartakMetahaven is an Amsterdam-based
artist
collective working in filmmaking, writing, and design.
In the lecture,
they talk about their past and forthcoming work.
The Feeling Sonnets (Transitional Object) (2024) is Metahaven's
forthcoming film on poetry and artificial intelligence, based on a poetry collection by Eugene Ostashevsky. Metahaven's new
book, on the future of the beholder's share in art, will be published in Spring 2025.
Metahaven’s film works include
Capture (2022),
Chaos Theory (2021),
Hometown (2018),
Information Skies (2016), and
The Sprawl
(Propaganda About Propaganda) (2015). Their books include
Digital Tarkovsky(2018), and Uncorporate Identity
(2010, edited with Marina Vishmidt). Metahaven has presented solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao,
ICA London, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Asakusa, Tokyo, Izolyatsia, Kyiv,
e-flux, New York, Tick Tack, Antwerp, and State of Concept Athens, among others, as well as participated in group exhibitions
at Artists Space, New York, the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, the Gwangju Biennale, the Sharjah Biennial, the Busan Bienniale,
Ghost:2561, Bangkok, and many others. Metahaven are artistic advisors at Rijksakademie, affiliate researchers at Antikythera,
and heads of department at the Geo-Design MA at DAE.
https://metahaven.net/