Toledo Tech Events

Join Adam Levine (TMA Assistant Director and exhibition co-curator) and Harriett Levin Balkind (guest co-curator) as they decode this exhibition and help you navigate fear, anger, enthusiasm, hope, and other emotions that political ads use to override your rationality. Balkind is founder of HonestAds, a nonpartisan nonprofit working to bring people into-the-know about political advertising.

The Qatsi Trilogy will be screened in the majestic Peristyle Theater.

• 5:30pm: Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of balance (1982)
• 7:30pm: Powaqqatsi: Life in transformation (1988)
• 10:00pm: Naqoyqatsi: Life as war (2002)

The general focus of the QATSI Trilogy is the technological milieu – the nature of technology.

What we know about the subject is vastly promotive, over-the-top positive, coming to us from the producers of global technology. A glowing wonderland of unlimited opportunity is promised by the good life of the technological order. Infinite capacity, virtual immortality, super human cognition – attributes that have until now been reserved for the divine are indicated for technology. A new technological pantheon has been established in the horizonless world of the Blue Planet.

But is technology what it appears to be? Have we looked behind the shimmer of its glowing surface? Very little, if anything, reveals its meaning through mere appearances. Most everything is more complex, full with a universe of hidden dimensions. Is technology an exception to this common experience?

Or, have we accepted its truth as the truth? Is technology a new and comprehensive environment, the host of life, that has replaced the natural order? Is technology the new universal religion? Can faiths unquestioned become our prisons? Should we place blind faith in the techno-clergy of the new order?

Does the computer reproduce the world in its own image and likeness? Is technology a mere tool, as we are told, that can be used or misused depending on one’s intentions? Is technology neutral? Does it possess a life of its own? Is it the effect of technology on this or that (the environment, etc.), or is it that everything is situated in technology?

Has technology become an addiction, an altered state that we cannot live without? Is technology a way of living? Do we use technology or do we live technology? Is it our consciousness that informs our behavior or is it our behavior that informs our consciousness?

Do we now live in a world beyond the senses, in a micro-universe, where small is dangerous? Is technology synonymous with the machine or has it become ordinary daily living?

Art House Film Series: Sketches of Frank Gehry (2006, 86 minutes, PG-13), In the Little Theater. FREE.

Architect Frank Gehry loves to sketch. It is the beginning of his architectural process. From his sketches flow the models, one after another, each a refinement, that will eventually become finished buildings unlike any others in the architectural world. It is this sketch quality, what he calls the “tentativeness, the messiness,” that Gehry clings to as a way of guarding against formula or repetition.

And it is this sketch quality that acclaimed feature film director Sydney Pollack was so keen to explore in the film SKETCHES OF FRANK GEHRY, seen on AMERICAN MASTERS.

Imagine the possibilities when you combine art and technology! In collaboration with Bowling Green State University, this camp gives you a chance to explore ways to creatively integrate technology into paintings, sculpture, and more.

Students will spend Monday-Thursday at TMA creating technology infused works of art by learning introductory coding and art skills. On Friday, students will travel to BGSU to explore other applications of coding, including interactive activities in labs featuring robotics, 3D printing, and virtual reality. Students must bring a packed lunch Monday-Thursday.

[$335 members / $350 nonmembers] Monday through Friday, July 22-26 | 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Course Code: 19S3EC310