Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art (2021)

Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art was an exhibition at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, New York that examined how technology is informed by identity and vice versa. The artists on view ranged from early pioneers of the net.art movement like Mendi + Keith Obadike as well as mid-career new media practitioners such as Sondra Perry.

The exhibition confronts how technological systems exponentially impact marginalized communities as technology's industrial complex further perpetuates existing hierarchies. How are conceptions of the self shifting and being remediated in a hyper-digitized society?

View the Difference Machines User Guide for curatorial essays and a selected bibliography for further reading!