HERVISIONS (est. 2015) is a femme-focused curatorial agency facilitating online and offline experiences and collaborations with partners to research and produce innovative commissions, exhibitions and events with a strong focus on the intersection of art, technology and culture. HERVISIONS proudly curated the first ever augmented reality face filter exhibition to be held in an arts institute in Europe during the Lives of Net Art programme at Tate Modern, April 2019. HERVISIONS partnered with the Photographers' Gallery, Soho London for an augmented reality initiative called Open Space and commissioned artist Josèfa Ntjam first augmented reality solo show titled Underground Resistance - Living memories
Most recently HERVISIONS was invited to create a public digital artwork for the Radical Landscapes exhibition at the William Morris Gallery, October 2023 - February 2024.
"Wild Wired! Rewilding Encounters of Langthorne Park" is a groundbreaking, first of it's kind public artwork which aims to explore - digital rewilding combining community engagement, digital practices, gaming technologies, and advanced AI tools.
Previous collaborations, exhibitions, partners and organizations include:
Tate Modern, Tate Britain, arebyte, LUX, bitforms, Instagram, FURTHERFIELD, Saatchi Gallery, FACT, Snapchat, The Photographers Gallery, Spectacles, DAZED, Boiler Room, LN-CC, BFI, Creative Coding Utrecht, Gossamer Fog, The London College of Fashion, isthisit, Meta, Mira Festival, William Morris Gallery, Waltham Forest Borough and Google Arts and Culture.
In the absence of physical connections how can screen-based dialogues remediate the lack of touching? How do we stay in touch when we are out of touch? How can we navigate the unwanted touch of the State through the autonomy of touching in new ways? When can we touch? how do we desire to touch?
HERVISIONS will present an evolving online curatorial proposition featuring a femme-focussed dialogue in response to the current COVID-19 situation. Resulting in a diverse programme of artistic practices that perform across the numerous digital platforms where we are currently connecting with each other.
OUT OF TOUCH seeks to understand new vocabularies of touch when all we have is the digital space. Considering how isolation has accelerated our digital vocabulary and what a meaningful language of touch might be beyond the physical.
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