Signal & Trace Opening at Gallery One

A new Gallery One exhibition, Signal & Trace, features artworks by faculty in Electronic Art & Technology within the University of New Mexico's College of Fine Arts and Department of Film & Digital Arts. The exhibition opens at City Hall’s Gallery One on Thursday, July 10, from 5 to 7 p.m. with a panel discussion beginning at 6 p.m.

Signal & Trace highlights artworks at the intersection of human experience and technological mediation, engaging with systems of surveillance, autonomy, memory, and identity.

Through formats like interactive video, electronic textiles, thermal imaging, and speculative documentary, these artists investigate how signals, whether sonic, visual, or emotional, circulate through both human and mechanical bodies, and how traces of these circulations are archived, distorted, or lost. Together the works explore the complex entanglements of presence and absence, agency and automation, material and immaterial forms of knowing.

“Whether through biosensors, game engines, or reanimated archives, all of the artists in this show embrace technology not as a replacement for the body but as a conduit to translate, expand, and even complicate our embodied experiences,” said Marie Alarcón, artist and curator.

Participating artists include Alarcón, Chanee Choi, Stewart Skylar Copeland, Ramona Emerson, Valery Jung (정) Estabrook, Jacob Kader, Lee Montgomery, Mary Tsiongas with collaborator Jim Roeber, Deborah Fort, and Eden Radfarr.

“This exhibition showcases artists who are shifting how we understand the human experience in a digital age,” said Mayor Tim Keller. “It’s a powerful reminder that Albuquerque is home to visionary creators who use art and technology to spark conversation and connection.”

Signal & Trace will be on view through August 15. The opening reception and exhibition are free and open to the public. Gallery One hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Gallery One is located on the first floor of City Hall at 1 Civic Plaza NW.