Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body brings together research-based and educational films with contemporary artworks by 16 American and international artists to examine the historical, medical, and sociopolitical implications of seeing inside the body. The works on view were created between 1891 and 2025. They include pieces by Panteha Abareshi, Peggy Ahwesh, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, Barbara Hammer, Ana Mendieta, Agnes Questionmark, and Leslie Thornton
Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body
Lars Wallén and Lennart Nilsson,The Beginning of Life, 1965. Digital video, color/sound.
Donald Rodney and Donald Rodney plc, Autoicon, 1997-2000. Software written by Adrian Ward, produced by Geoff Cox and Mike Phillips.
Louis and Auguste Lumière, Film Lumière no. 831, Le Squelette Joyeux, 1897. HD video, black and white/silent, Copyright Institut Lumière.
Agnes Questionmark, Opera Medica, 2025. Directed by Giulia Mucci, still photography by Jason Baker, Three-channel video installation.
Barbara Hammer, Sanctus, 1990. 16mm film transferred to HD video. Courtesy the artist’s estate and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI).
Leslie Thornton and Ron Vawter, Strange Space, 1992. Digital video. Courtesy Leslie Thornton; Sylvia Kouvali, London and Piraeus; and EAI
Anthony Wilkinson, IT in Health, 1982. Digital video. Courtesy the Wellcome Collection.
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