Marc Vilanova is a sound and visual artist whose work delves into the intersection of art, science, and technology. His research centers on themes such as audiovisuality, automation, machine self-expression, AI, superintelligence, and the socio-political implications of society’s relationship with technology. His dynamic practice encompasses sound and light sculptures, immersive installations, performances, and interdisciplinary collaborations with dance, theatre, and film.
Vilanova’s works have gained international acclaim, captivating audiences across the Americas, Asia, Europe, and beyond.
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Vivian Caccuri is an artist based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For the past fifteen years, Caccuri has been exploring musical cultures and sound production broadly through installations, performances, drawings, and embroideries. Cuccuri investigates how sound can disorient everyday experiences, inspire new forms of living and modulate power dynamics in society.
Caccuri has participated in shows such as the 32nd and 33rd São Paulo Biennial, the Venice Biennale and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India, and has exhibited works at the New Museum and High Line Art in New York City, Museo JUMEX in Mexico among others.
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Rebecca Shapass is a filmmaker and artist investigating documentary form and archival practice through the creation of film & video, photo, installation, and text. Her work has been exhibited and screened with various institutions and festivals. She holds an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University and a BFA from New York University.
Her work has been featured at venues and festivals such as Microscope Gallery, Miller ICA, B3 Festival of the Moving Image, and Antimatter [media art] Festival. She was a 2018-19 Smack Mellon Studio Artist and Van Lier Fellow and received a 2023 Creative Development Award from the Heinz Endowment.
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Yasmine El Meleegy is an Egyptian multidisciplinary artist and sculptor living and working in Cairo who is also a time-traveling archaeologist. Through her work, She creates participatory events to instantiate counter-narratives. Her work is concerned with the representation of history, repair and materiality in relation to histories of places such as her latest performative intervention at Stephenson’s 100-year-old pharmacy in downtown Cairo "Scaffolding a Familiar Epoch.“
Her practice stems from a personal impulse to fix and mend, an act which both staves off, and confirms the certainty of loss. Approaching defunct, damaged household items with painstaking care, she seeks to restore an object's emotional and historic resonance by repairing its physicality by creating monumental installations and artifacts as archaeological sites of the future.
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Chang is an artist based in Taipei, Taiwan, and Santiago de Compostela, Spain. His work satirizes society, tackling topics like consumerism’s impact and the art world's dynamics. Revelling in the absurd and illogical, he uses science, technology, and history to explore and critique the world around him, and excuted through immersive installations, video, and theater.
After receiving his MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2011, Chang has exhibited internationally in solo exhibitions and group shows.
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Bring your friends and BYOB at Mattress Factory!
Our Garden and Café provide the perfect backdrop to enjoy a drink before you explore the museum galleries. 🎉
BYOB is every day during museum open hours.
🥐 Bites & sandwiches made by MayFly Market & Deli will be available for purchase at the museum cafe.
Mon - Tue: | Closed |
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Wed: | 11 am – 8 pm |
Thu – Sun: | 11 am – 6 pm |
The RAD Summer Staycation program, offering free admission to Mattress Factory and other regional attractions, has been such a success that it will now extend into September, giving even more opportunities to explore and enjoy!
Through the RAD (Allegheny Regional Asset District) Staycation program, Mattress Factory offers hundreds of free admissions this summer. All you need is an Allegheny County library card and a reservation to take advantage.
Ticket offers from Mattress Factory will appear on RADPass.org through September.
Free tickets through the RAD Summer Staycation can be booked and redeemed by following a four-step process at RADPass.org:
When offers appear at RADPass.org, guests are encouraged to be courteous to other RAD Pass users: only book a reservation that you plan to use on the selected date. If you find you are unable to attend, please cancel your reservation to open up spots for others.
The Allegheny Regional Asset District – RAD –unveiled a new RAD Summer Staycation program that will provide Allegheny County library card holders access to RAD-funded attractions that typically charge for daily admission. RAD Summer Staycation will also highlight additional free summertime events taking place at RAD assets.
In addition to reservable free tickets at these attractions, the RAD Summer Staycation serves as a “one-stop shop” for people to explore free experiences at regional assets throughout the summer. RADworkshere.org will feature a calendar of fun opportunities ranging from free concerts and movies at regional parks to summertime festivals and events throughout Allegheny County.
We celebrate Mattress Factory alumni William Anastasi who passed away this week at 90.
Anastasi created seven site-specific works at Mattress Factory. Two of these works remain On View at Mattress Factory since the 90's.
William Anastasi is one of the founders of both Conceptual and Minimal Art - relevant works were made before the movements were named. These works, starting in 1961, include Relief and Microphone, among the earliest examples of Conceptual Art.
Between 1963 and 1966, we have Sink - a clear demonstration of entropy - and Issue and Trespass - important forerunners to an entire class of works involving deconstruction. Sink (which combines his Conceptual and Minimal approaches) and En Route, are among the earliest forays into Minimal Art.
Holding that after Duchamp there was no earthly reason why a blind man could not be an artist, his unsighted drawings were also started in 1963. His 1966/67 Six Sites broke the ground for an entire genre of exhibitions under the rubric Site Specific.
Underlying his practice is his sense that the only thing that interests him about taste is that it is always changing.
ARTnews - William Anastasia, Conceptualist Who Drew A Cult Following, Dies at 90
Artsy -William Anastasi, a prominent Conceptual artist, has died at 90.
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