A new exhibition titled "Signal & Trace" opens at Gallery One in Albuquerque's City Hall on July 10, featuring artworks by faculty from the University of New Mexico's Electronic Art & Technology program. The show includes interactive video, electronic textiles, thermal imaging, and speculative documentary works by artists such as Marie Alarcón, Chanee Choi, Stewart Skylar Copeland, Ramona Emerson, and others, exploring themes of surveillance, autonomy, memory, and identity through technological mediation.
The exhibition matters because it highlights how artists in Albuquerque are using technology to expand and complicate embodied human experiences, bridging art and digital innovation in a public civic space. By showcasing faculty from a university program, it also underscores the role of academic institutions in fostering cutting-edge art that engages with pressing contemporary issues like automation and data circulation.