Eco-Sophia: The Artist of Life

Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery
Church Fine Arts Building
University of Nevada, Reno

Eco-Sophia: The Artist of Life

Allora & Calzadilla
Ann Hamilton
Andrea Polli
Lynn Richardson
Kahn & Selesnick
Paul Stout

Marjorie Vecchio, Curator
Catalog designed by Omar Pierce
Essays by Wolfgang Schirmacher and Thomas Zummer

Exhibition Run: Oct. 2 - Nov. 7, 2008

Tuesday Oct. 7
Panel discussion with the artist and writers: 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Reception: 6:30 - 8pm

Please note Tuesday night opening!

Eco-Sophia: The Artist of Life is a group exhibition inspired by German philosopher Wolfgang Schirmacher's 1989 essay of the same name. For generations philosophers and scientists have been separately asking similar questions in their scholarship: how and what is coexistence, where do the boundaries of technology push us, and what is habitation? This exhibition takes Schirmacher's call for wisdom and converges on the necessary yet very complicated and nuanced symbiotic relationship between philosophy, technology, ecology and individual agency.

[photo of installation by Lynn Richardson. Courtesy of Sheppard Gallery. Click on image to enlarge.]