SYSTEM FAILURE Opening Reception 

Founded in 1994, apexart is a non-profit arts organization in Lower Manhattan that offers opportunities to independent curators and emerging and established artists, and challenges ideas about art, its practice, and its curation. We realize this mission through our exhibitions, fellowships, publications, and public programs.291 Church Street, NYC

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Fail fast! Fail big! Fail often! Fail better!
These oft-quoted Silicon Valley mantras celebrate the high-octane risk taking that has been the hallmark of the tech world, but who really wins (and loses) when companies fail? 
Presented in San Francisco, a hub of technology and diverse artistic and social movements, SYSTEM FAILURE celebrates the creative potential of failure while also holding ourselves accountable to the injustices too often built into tech’s data, algorithms, and networks. SYSTEM FAILURE presents work from a diverse group of media artists who explore ideologies of disruption, critique the social and political effects of technological breakdown, and tactically produce errors by building tools that are never meant to function or hacking their way through loopholes in source code.
Featuring work by:  American Artist Tega Brain &amp; Surya Mattu Demian DinéYazhi' Robbie Barrat Faith Holland Xandra Ibarra Jenny Odell &amp; Joe Veix M Eifler aka BlinkPopShift Mimi Onuoha Caroline Sinders Stephanie Syjuco 
And featuring a special interactive performance Masking Machine by M Eifler aka BlinkPopShift throughout the opening reception. 
SYSTEM FAILURE is an apexart <A HREF="https://apexart.org/opencalls.php" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Open Call Exhibition</A> curated by Harris Kornstein and Cara Rose DeFabio.  
Harris Kornstein is a PhD student in Media, Culture, and Communications at NYU, as well as an artist whose work explores digital culture and new media, media-based art and activism, and queer politics.
Cara Rose DeFabio produces live cultural events in her hometown of San Francisco that examine the role technology plays in our lives, and how it is shaping the city.

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