In the first event of the Fall 2022 lecture series, MIT Open Documentary Lab welcomed immersive art duo Lundahl & Seitl to discuss their work following a series of performances on campus.
In their talk, A Language of What Cannot Be Said, the artists discussed their practice making artworks that, each in a different way, explore how technology makes us and lay the ground for our human umwelt: how it connects and disconnects us from each other and other life-forms and processes. They were introduced by Sarah Wolozin, director of the MIT Open Documentary Lab and Gediminas Urbonas, an associate professor in MIT's Arts, Culture, and Technology program.
Lundahl & Seitl formed in 2003 as continuous research into the question of how we perceive reality and negotiate its various forms. The virtual experience in their works is created with peculiar objects such as sightless goggles or methods of choreographed touch through reverse engineering visual stimuli. Through a heuristic relationship to process, and created in collaboration between disciplines, the duo has developed an art form and method containing staging, choreographed movement, instructions, sculpture, spatial sound, and augmented and virtual reality.
