Art at Ideas Salon: Collective Authorship @ Discourse
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Hosted by Art for Civil Discourse
This edition of the Ideas Salon brings together four artists with distinct approaches to moving image to build one evolving work in real time. Each artist receives the piece midstream, transforms it through their own medium and philosophy, and passes it forward. Along the way, the audience helps shape key decisions, making the final work a record of process, relation, and collective authorship.
Come watch artists lean into the friction, confusion, turbulence, and beauty of collaboration in an exploration of human creativity. This is a live, multi-disciplinary relay race of creation: four artists, four wildly different processes, one evolving piece of media passed hand to hand and transformed in public. images are sculpted from analog hardware, analog hardware feeds a 3D environment, and on and on, each creator exposing their workflow, philosophy, and creative fingerprints in real time.
At a moment when AI companies promise a frictionless, hyper-optimized creative ecosystem where a simple swipe can generate anything you can imagine, this salon asks what gets lost when process disappears from view. The art is the process: the handoff between artists, the visible transformation of the work, and the decisions made in public. That distinction matters more than ever when the dominant technologies are a black box that hides how anything gets made. This is a space for participation, improvisation, visible transformation, and the strange beauty of building something together.
Organized by Goosim, a collaborative artist collective, this salon brings together artists whose practices span new media, immersive environments, analog installation, audio visual performance, writing, and creative technology.
Artists
Andrew Butcher: https://www.instagram.com/5projectors/A new media artist, creative technologist, and lifelong athlete who explores how technology alters our perception of space and relation to one another. He creates interactive installations, audio visual performances, and video games. Andrew takes Gooism to the next level by harnessing bleeding edge technical ability and high level strategy.
Jonathan Fetzer: https://www.instagram.com/avfetz/An audio visual artist, VJ, and analog multimedia installation artist from the Bay Area. They create original visuals and installations for artist performances & events with a fusion of repurposed modern and retro technology. Fetz leads the curation of intimate local communities and how they interact with bay area economies.
Jack Morgan: https://www.instagram.com/a.eye.studios/Creative technologist and visual artist who blends immersive media with large-scale visual experiences. With a background in product leadership across digital platforms, managing complex ecosystems and virtual assets he composes art, technology, and experiential design. He brings thoughtful corporate structure and mystical AI brilliance to the team.
Kevin Mitchell: https://www.instagram.com/sync.priest/A multi disciplinary artist and writer, Kevin also owns a hospitality consulting firm focusing on building teams, empowering leaders, and scaling concepts. He brings his leadership, dedication to excellence, and deep understanding of results based iteration to the Gooism team. He dreams of better narratives and controlled phase changes in favor of talent.
We are the future. Let’s imagine together.