tanthem NYC is pleased to announce ALGO(RHYtM), a pop-up exhibition exploring ritual in the context of cybernetics and digital culture

In a societal context, rituals demarcate transition, create a sense of community and sanctify belief. On an individual level, they create routine and help materialize and reaffirm one’s identity. These performative actions shape who we are and our perception of the world by assigning significance to ideas, values and objects. 

The advent of cybernetics and contemporary communication technologies have fundamentally altered the way rituals are perceived and the type of rituals we engage in. In this evening of art, we showcase these rituals. 

Lighthearted and playful, we banish the indoctrination, capitalistic greed, and surveillance that permeates the zeitgeist of digital culture. Instead, we start anew using art to forge introspective bonds of shared experience.

Artists Featured

Ashleigh Abbott is currently based in NYC with her gracious partner and two intrepid daughters. In her life previously, she traveled extensively while investigating immigration issues, gender relations, social and religious structures in societies, and relationship to heritage through photographic documentary projects and traditional Mexican and Western medicine. Her current work questions the stability of social structures and presumptions on the natural order of living things based on scientism through the lens of chaos and infinite potential.

She is a winner of the 2020 Covington Rhodes Prize as well as multiple other awards from national and international organizations. She is also the 2022 Curator Fellow for the 25 E 13th Gallery at Parsons, New School.

Katie Chin is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, painting and performance. She has exhibited and performed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, including Root Division, Aggregate Space Gallery, The Midway Gallery, and 25 East Gallery. Katie was born in Columbus, Ohio and is currently in pursuit of her Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) from Parsons at The New School in New York City.

Malath Kamaluldeen is an Iraqi creative technologist recently graduated from Parsons School of Design with a degree in Design and Technology. Her work takes form as speculative design — critiquing the perplexed entanglements of surveillance technology with the uncertainties of a rapidly changing world while also centering communities that are most vulnerable to its consequences.

Ruby / aka Justice on-line / is an artist, writer, and curator based in Montreal. His work focuses on the long-term implications of technology as it intersects with culture, society, and art. His work has been featured in Ljubljana, Berlin, and Toronto

Holly Wilson (b. 1992, Columbus, Ohio) is an American sculpture artist. She currently lives and works in Syracuse, NY directing local art gallery, Apostrophe’ S. Her artwork materializes identity as a deranged apparatus that leaks the innermost desires of society. By investigating the banality and exercise of routine life - her new body of work infuses memory and perception within the discarded products she hoards. Holly recently exhibited at the MINT Museum Uptown at Gendered in Charlotte, she recently finished an artist residency at Sculpture Space in Utica, NY.