Geo Barcan: Metahaven Guest Lecture

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The work of Metahaven consists of filmmaking, writing, and design. Films by Metahaven include Chaos Theory (2021), Hometown (2018), Eurasia (Questions on Happiness) (2018), and Information Skies (2016, nominated for the 2017 European Film Awards). Solo exhibitions include Passphrases, State of Concept Athens (2021), Turnarounds, e-flux, New York (2019), Version History, ICA London (2018), Earth, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2018), Hometown, Izolyatsia, Kyiv (2018), and Islands in the Cloud, MoMA PS1, New York (2013). Public lectures include “An Evening with Metahaven,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2019), “After The Sprawl,” Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2019), and “Inhabitant,” Harvard GSD, Cambridge (2020). Recent publications include PSYOP: An Anthology (2018, edited with Karen Archey), and Digital Tarkovsky (2018).


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Interviews with the duo can be read here

Five degrees of longitude, with Lesia Prokopenko: https://easteast.world/en/posts/16


We are Reflections, with K Allado-McDowell: https://so-far.online/we-are-reflections-metahaven-and-the-charms-of-recursion


An excerpt from "Digital Tarkovsky" can be read here: https://strelkamag.com/en/article/digital-tarkovsky-metahaven-excerpt


Some screenshots from their recent film and installation work below

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Post your theoretical and/or film questions here

  • Can you explain the importance of simple geometric forms in your films?

People joining

  • Geo
  • Shannon
  • Aitan