January 23, 2022 – Telfair Museum’s PULSE Festival of Arts and Technology returns to the Jeppesen Center on January 26-28. This year’s featured exhibition will be Sensitive Contacts: Interactive Art at Scenocosme, an interactive exhibition by artist duo Grégory Lasserre and Anaïs met den Ancxt. In addition to exhibit opening presentations, free family days, site-specific projections of Will Penny, On Wheels, bike-driven interactive video installations, Infinity Games: Yichen Zhou’s Game Boy Projects, and more.
Featured exhibits and artists include:
Sensitive Touch: Interactive Art at Scenocosme – Grégory Lasserre and Anaïs met den Ancxt
- From January 27th to August 6th, 2023
- Visitors can experience four of the artist’s signature interactive installations, including Metamorphy, which utilizes touchable elastic screens to create blurs between real physical spaces, virtual spaces materialized by mirror reflections, and spaces generated by video projections.
Will Penny: Site Specific Projections
- January 26-27, 5:30-8pm
- Savannah artist Will Penny, known for his sculptural, digitally designed paintings, will present a large-scale site-specific projection at the Jepsen Center. In addition to this colorful geometric projection, visitors can view Penny’s work from the museum’s permanent collection in Convergence, a current exhibition at the Jeppesen Center.
On Wheels, bicycle-powered interactive video installation Artists: Longzhe Zhang, Yue Liu, Hua Hua Liu, Lei Yu, and Ruitao Wan
- January 26-28
- Created in the Physical Computing class at Savannah College of Art and Design, this meticulously crafted interactive artwork uses “a bicycle as a vehicle” to “carry the transformation of time and space.” Pedaling on a bicycle activates a network of bicycle chains that stretches across a hexagonal video screen that reveals a twisting, turning wormhole-like tunnel. The project will be demonstrated on PULSE evenings and Saturday afternoons.
Infinite Games: Yichen Zhou’s Game Boy Project
- January 26-28
- Video game artist and designer Yichen Zhou will showcase several creations created for the classic Game Boy system. The artist uses games as a medium to seek the audience’s participation. He said, “I am not the only creator of the work, but the mediator of the interaction and contribution between the audience and the work.”
Opened in 1886, the Telfair Museums is the oldest public art museum in the South and the first museum in the United States to be founded by a woman. Located in the heart of Savannah’s National Historic Landmark District, the museum features world-class art collections in three locations: the Jepsen Center for the Arts, the Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters, and Telfair College.
