Nancy Baker Cahill: Ecologies of Scale
Overview
Nancy Baker Cahill: Ecologies of Scale bridges the Museum galleries and Park through Cahill’s unique blend of digital and analog media. This free exhibition includes site-specific experiences, video installations, sculptures, works on paper, and augmented reality (AR) projects that interweave natural and imagined worlds.
Outside of the East Building exhibition galleries, AR artwork Substrate is located in the Ellipse in the Museum Park. Using a free app, visitors are able to view and interact with the artwork from their smartphones or tablets while in the Ellipse. Seamlessly interweaving the digital world with the real world, Substrate invites viewers to add specific and personally relevant cultural artifacts (artworks, films, books, poems, songs) to a living archive.
In a special one-night event taking place in Gipson Plaza on Thursday, November 5, a selection of the artist’s monumental immersive videos will be projected on the facade of West Building as part of free After Hours monthly programming.
A monumental augmented reality (AR) artwork, Substrate, will be located in the Ellipse in the Museum Park. Using a free app, visitors will be able to view and interact with the artwork from their smartphones or tablets while in the Ellipse. Seamlessly interweaving the digital world with the real world, Substrate invites viewers to add specific and personally relevant cultural artifacts (artworks, films, books, poems, songs) to a living archive.
Artist
Nancy Baker Cahill
Ecologies of Scale features a wide variety of work by artist Nancy Baker Cahill in multiple sites both inside the Museum galleries and outside in the Museum Park. Combining analog and digital media, Baker Cahill creates immersive experiences, video installations, sculptures, works on paper, and AR projects that interweave natural and digital worlds to explore timely issues and concerns, including environmental and cultural instability, along with universal concepts of interconnectedness and interdependence. Investigating how technology mediates our experience, Baker Cahill utilizes multimedia works of art to explore human cognition and perception.
Details
Nancy Baker Cahill, Substrate, 2025, interactive augmented reality, dimensions variable, Commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Art + Technology Lab
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Exhibition Sponsors
Organized by the North Carolina Museum of Art. This exhibition is made possible by the generous support of the Hartfield Foundation and Libby and Lee Buck.
Additional support is provided by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources; the North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.; and the William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment for Educational Exhibitions. Research for this exhibition was made possible by Ann and Jim Goodnight / The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fund for Curatorial and Conservation Research and Travel.
