Notes On Intimacy -
Biodesign Challenge
Panel Discussion
2024
"BDC x NEW INC: Notes On Intimacy" panel discussion at the 2024 Biodesign Challenge Summit, alongside Tao Leigh Goffe, Michelle Shofet, and Elaine Young, which took place at Parsons School of Design - The New School and The Museum of Modern Art.
Our conversation centered around the radical potential of intimacy as a form of collectivity that extends beyond human connections to include non-human beings. We explored how this kind of intimacy can challenge and destabilize oppressive social beliefs, opening new pathways for understanding relationships and ecological interdependence.
A significant part of our discussion was dedicated to the role of language in shaping cultural paradigms. We examined how different languages offer unique ways to articulate the human experience and provide diverse answers to fundamental questions about life.
Parsons School of Design, New School
New York, Thursday, June 13th
Our conversation centered around the radical potential of intimacy as a form of collectivity that extends beyond human connections to include non-human beings. We explored how this kind of intimacy can challenge and destabilize oppressive social beliefs, opening new pathways for understanding relationships and ecological interdependence.
A significant part of our discussion was dedicated to the role of language in shaping cultural paradigms. We examined how different languages offer unique ways to articulate the human experience and provide diverse answers to fundamental questions about life.
Parsons School of Design, New School
New York, Thursday, June 13th
Tomorrow’s Nature
Lecture at VCUarts Qatar
2022
Can we truly draw lines between the human world and the natural world? Can one exist without the other?
"When you look closely, the distinction between a person and their surrounding ecology is very diffuse," explains artist and filmmaker Jonah King. It is in the exploration of these blurred boundaries where this multi- media artist finds his artistic inspiration, direction and connection with his audience.
"I am interested in bodies, identity, and landscape [...]. Focusing on this destabilizes cultural beliefs that separate us, delineate identity groups, and construct an artificial separation from nature."
Through his work and collaborations, King invites his audience to join in this exploration "collectively" and in doing so, to deconstruct the inner mechanisms of human nature and to re-assemble a new perspective on the human experience and human consciousness.
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"When you look closely, the distinction between a person and their surrounding ecology is very diffuse," explains artist and filmmaker Jonah King. It is in the exploration of these blurred boundaries where this multi- media artist finds his artistic inspiration, direction and connection with his audience.
"I am interested in bodies, identity, and landscape [...]. Focusing on this destabilizes cultural beliefs that separate us, delineate identity groups, and construct an artificial separation from nature."
Through his work and collaborations, King invites his audience to join in this exploration "collectively" and in doing so, to deconstruct the inner mechanisms of human nature and to re-assemble a new perspective on the human experience and human consciousness.
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Witches Butter
Digital Human Workshop at Visual Carlow Museum
2021
How can digital humans help us tell our stories?
For the first event in the Speech Sounds programme, artist Jonah King hosts a digital avatar workshop on Thursday 9 September at 7pm. In this workshop, Jonah will introduce how ultra-realistic CGI puppets are made and animated, and how they are used in art, gaming and film.
In the second half, the group will be invited to share fictional and non-fictional stories in response to the “Where does your body begin and end”. These stories will anonymously inspire metahuman characters in Jonah’s upcoming film ‘Honey Fungus’.
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For the first event in the Speech Sounds programme, artist Jonah King hosts a digital avatar workshop on Thursday 9 September at 7pm. In this workshop, Jonah will introduce how ultra-realistic CGI puppets are made and animated, and how they are used in art, gaming and film.
In the second half, the group will be invited to share fictional and non-fictional stories in response to the “Where does your body begin and end”. These stories will anonymously inspire metahuman characters in Jonah’s upcoming film ‘Honey Fungus’.
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