The Paradox of Virtual Visibility

Register Here  |  Cost is $15 and includes admission ticket to Wrightwood 659.

Featuring Tina Rivers Ryan, Hasan Elahi, and Sean Fader

Exhibition Viewing: 4-5:30 pm
Panel Discussion 5:30-7 pm

Admission complimentary with ticket purchase.

The growth of social media and online platforms has provided safe spaces for individuals from marginalized groups to find and build communities. Unfortunately, these virtual communities are not the utopias imagined when the web first emerged in the 1990s. Heightened visibility now exposes these individuals to harassment, cultural appropriation, and other forms of violence.

Curator Tina Rivers Ryan will moderate this discussion on the complex interplay between visibility and vulnerability in digital media with two of the artists featured in Difference Machines – Hasan Elahi and Sean Fader. Join us at Wrightwood 659 for a timely conversation on the paradox of exposure afforded by the internet.