Sat January 31, 2015
Living with Endangered Languages in the Information Age
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at Root Division 'Pop-Up' on Market St.
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2nd Sat Reception: Saturday, January 10, 2015 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm; Exhibition Dates: Jan 7, 2015 to Jan 31, 2015
Root Division presents Living with Endangered Languages in the Information Age, an exhibition of 30 contemporary artists addressing dwindling diversity in international languages. What happens when a language vanishes? Is technology exacerbating the demise of languages or abating the process of extinction? Living with Endangered Languages in the Information Age addresses this crisis covering 6 continents and 30 languages, many of which are critically endangered or no longer spoken. Utilizing multidisciplinary practices, conceptual approaches, and a variety of new media the artists in this exhibition explore the loss of spoken languages, as well as the rise and fall of artificial languages.
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Root Division presents Living with Endangered Languages in the Information Age, an exhibition of 30 contemporary artists addressing dwindling diversity in international languages. What happens when a language vanishes? Is technology exacerbating the demise of languages or abating the process of extinction? Living with Endangered Languages in the Information Age addresses this crisis covering 6 continents and 30 languages, many of which are critically endangered or no longer spoken. Utilizing multidisciplinary practices, conceptual approaches, and a variety of new media the artists in this exhibition explore the loss of spoken languages, as well as the rise and fall of artificial languages.
2nd Sat Reception: Saturday, January 10, 2015 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm; Exhibition Dates: Jan 7, 2015 to Jan 31, 2015
Root Division presents Living with Endangered Languages in the Information Age, an exhibition of 30 contemporary artists addressing dwindling diversity in international languages. What happens when a language vanishes? Is technology exacerbating the demise of languages or abating the process of extinction? Living with Endangered Languages in the Information Age addresses this crisis covering 6 continents and 30 languages, many of which are critically endangered or no longer spoken. Utilizing multidisciplinary practices, conceptual approaches, and a variety of new media the artists in this exhibition explore the loss of spoken languages, as well as the rise and fall of artificial languages.
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Root Division presents Living with Endangered Languages in the Information Age, an exhibition of 30 contemporary artists addressing dwindling diversity in international languages. What happens when a language vanishes? Is technology exacerbating the demise of languages or abating the process of extinction? Living with Endangered Languages in the Information Age addresses this crisis covering 6 continents and 30 languages, many of which are critically endangered or no longer spoken. Utilizing multidisciplinary practices, conceptual approaches, and a variety of new media the artists in this exhibition explore the loss of spoken languages, as well as the rise and fall of artificial languages.
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Root Division 'Pop-Up' on Market St.
1059 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94103
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