January 23, 2022 – Telfair Museums’ PULSE Art + Technology Festival will return to the Jepson Center from January 26-28. This year’s featured exhibition will be Sensitive Contacts: Interactive Art by Scenocosme, a collaborative exhibition by two artists, Grégory Lasserre and Anaïs met den Ancxt. In addition to the show’s opening speech, a free Family Day, site-specific projects by Will Penny, On Wheels, an interactive video installation, Infinity Games: Game Boy Projects by Yichen Zhou, and more.
Current exhibitions and artists include:
Weak Contacts: Functional Art is the Scenocosme – Grégory Lasserre and Anaïs meet Ancxt
- January 27 – August 6, 2023
- Visitors can experience four signature installations put together by the artists, including Metamorphy, which uses a flexible touch screen that creates a blur between a physical space, a virtual space created by mirroring, and another produced by video projection.
Will Penny: Site Specific Estimates
- January 26-27, 5:30-8 pm
- Known for his sculptural, digitally created paintings, Savannah-based artist Will Penny will present a large-scale projection of a specific location at the Jepson Center. In addition to this colorful, geometric work, visitors can view Penny’s work from the museum’s permanent collection in the current Convergence exhibit at the Jepson Center.
On Wheels, a video installation of a motorized bicycle Artists: Longzhe Zhang, Yue Liu, Hua Hua Liu, Lei Yu, and Ruitao Wan
- January 26-28
- Created in computer science courses at the Savannah College of Art and Design, this elaborate painting uses a “bicycle as a form of transportation” that “carries the transition of time and space.” Pedaling the bike unlocks a network of bike chains that extend across a hexagonal video screen that reveals a twisting, winding, pit-like tunnel. The project will be presented on PULSE evenings and Saturday afternoons.
Infinity Games: Game Projects for Boys by Yichen Zhou
- January 26-28
- Video game artist and designer Yichen Zhou will present several works created for Game Boy systems. The artist uses games as a game, seeking the participation of the audience, saying “Rather than being the sole creator of the work, I often play the role of a mediator in the audience’s interaction and contribution to the work of art.”
Opened in 1886, Telfair Museums is the oldest public museum in the South and the first US museum founded by a woman. The museum displays a world-class art collection in the heart of the Savannah National Historic District and includes three sites: the Jepson Center for the Arts, the Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters, and the Telfair Academy.
