Co-Curator-Led Tours of Difference Machines

Join us opening weekend for a rare opportunity to tour our galleries with the acclaimed co-curators of Difference Machines, Tina Rivers Ryan, PhD, Curator, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, and Paul Vanouse, Professor, University at Buffalo. Tina and Paul draw on their specialized expertise to provide insight into this timely exhibition which questions how new technologies effectively change perceptions of identity and contribute to—or allow us to resist—systemic forms of oppression.

ABOUT THE CURATORS
Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan joined the Albright-Knox in 2017. Her curatorial projects include Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, with Chief Curator Cathleen Chaffee; We the People: New Art from the Collection, with Peggy Pierce Elfvin Director Janne Sirén; Aria Dean; and Kawita Vatanajyankur: Foul Play. From 2015 to 2017, Ryan was a Curatorial Research Assistant in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. She also previously held internships at MoMA/PS1, the New Museum, and the ICA Boston, and taught courses on contemporary art at MoMA, Columbia University, and the Pratt Institute.

Paul Vanouse is a Professor of Art and Founding Director of the Coalesce Center for Biological Art at the University at Buffalo. A renowned media artist, his honors include a 2006 Creative Capital grant and the 2019 Golden Nica at PRIX Ars Electronica. Since the 1990s, his projects have foregrounded the social consequences of new technologies. His most recent works include genetic experiments that examine his own Jamaican-American parentage to undermine scientific constructions of race.