Angels Gate Cultural Center (AGCC) is pleased to present METHOD, a new group exhibition featuring twenty-five contemporary artists who experiment across interdisciplinary fields. METHOD opens with a public reception on Saturday, September 14th from 2pm to 4pm in the gallery during OPaf, Other Places art fair, at AGCC. OPaf is an alternative art fair dedicated to supporting unconventional and underrepresented artists, art project spaces, and art programming. OPaf takes place September 14th from 11am to 9pm in the Battery Leary-Merriam at AGCC (visit https://opaf.info to learn more). METHOD is about technology, ecology, and embodiment. It layers the history of analog and digital processes that shape images and imaginaries, exploring transcultural aspects of language, its role in technoscience and the coloniality embedded in cartographic forms. The artists’ explorations connect seemingly divergent ecosystems, expanding their meaning. Reflections on ecology reimagine the evolution of Earth in conjunction with technological processes, as visualized in digital art, while critically examining the settler logic of taxonomizing species and dividing land to separate lifeworlds. The artworks on technology are informed by the development of artificial intelligence and their ideological roots, such as transhumanism (the techno evolution of the human race) and singularitarianism (when machines hypothetically surpass human intelligence). Through cyberpunk aesthetics that critique technofetishism and explore machine memory, technology could be seen as both an echo of the body and a medium for collective subversion. Finally, embodiment explores through queer, Indigenous, and speculatively more-than-human knowledge systems, recognizing the value of differences in configuring a life-centric approach to design. Various methods are employed to understand strategic entanglements and their cyclical feedback loops. METHOD includes works by Lauren Bedal, Jenna Caravello, CHẾ, Chris Combs, Ismael de Anda III & Eugene Ahn, Tielin Ding, Richelle Ellis, Ksti Hu, Kim Kei, Elizabeth Leister, Lineadeluz, Edua Mercedes, Reuben Merringer, Ashton Phillips, Koi Ren & Joey Verbeke, Dylan Ricards, Miller Robinson, Kayla Tange, Ambrose Trataris & Lucy Black, Ayzay Ukwuoma, Erika Weitz, and Devin Wilson. METHOD is guest juried and curated by Kira Xonorika, SUPERCOLLIDER SciArt Ambassador. The exhibition will be on view in the gallery through December 6th, 2024 with free public visiting hours Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, from 10am to 4:30pm. Visit angelsgateart.org to learn more. Image: Koi Ren & Joey Verbeke, T.A.E.L., 2024.