Window Weather: A Nomad’s View of Reality

The history of the human use of glass, the chemical compound silicon dioxide (SiO2), prescribes a novel point of view on the nature of virtuality, and consequently, the nature of reality. This presentation will sketch a history of that attenuation on individual realities and offer some views on the techno-social system that we are migrating through.

As an active network-builder with a background in engineering, hard science, and the arts, Hopkins has practices a nomadic form of performative art and teaching across 25 countries and in numerous cultural institutions from academies to museums to online collectives. His live network-based visual-sonic media performances have appeared across the globe and, of course, online. He studied film under renown experimental film-maker, Stan Brakhage in the 1980’s and was recently artist-in-residence at the Sibelius Academy’s Center for Music and Technology in Helsinki, Finland.

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