In We See Through a Glass Darkly: Art, Technology, and the Unknown, artist and educator Allyson Packer explores the relationship between mystery and human progress. Interrogating the myth that technological advancement makes our world more decipherable, she leads an overview of her creative process and recent video projects that address topics from our bewildering relationship to virtual space to speculation about the role of the human brain in a mixed-consciousness culture. Plumbing the generative potential of these emerging unknowns, she proposes the enduring importance of mystery in creative thinking and the value of not fully understanding the world around us.
Bio
Allyson Packer is an artist whose work considers our embodied relationship to a dematerializing world. Her projects have been presented at Nahmad Projects (London), Ada X (Montreal), The University of Barcelona, Weltkunstzimmer (Düsseldorf), The Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), and Hošek Contemporary (Berlin), as well as published in the Centre Pompidou's Journal de l’Université d’été de la Bibliothèque Kandinsky. In 2022, she was a La Box Artist in Residence at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art in Bourges, France, where she authored the publication SPECTRE and completed the public artwork C RY, commissioned by the Artichoke Trust in London. Packer lives in Brooklyn, NY and is Teaching Assistant Professor in the Visual Arts & Technology program at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. She is represented by the gallery birds + Richard in Berlin.
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