Jur A** Itch Park
Johannes Büttner & Grayson Earle
Jur A** Itch Park is an immersive performance and interactive film work by Grayson Earle and Johannes Büttner. Using AI, this project delves into the evolving relationship between humans and technology in the creative arts, featuring an AI-directed foray into “Jurassic Park” where you can play dinosaur, traveler, or audience. Be a part of the first audience on a film set with AI in the director’s seat. This will be a new type of collaboration with AI that begs the question: Who is prompting Whom?
Jur A** Itch Park features technical design and elements by Johannes Büttner and Grayson Earle.
Jur A** Itch Park is produced by Media Art Xploration (MAXlive), Kay Matschullat, Artistic Director, with support from Simons Foundation’s Science, Society & Culture division. Additional Funding provided by the Ettinger foundation, public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the generous support of our individual donors. Jur A** Itch Park supported by the @CPR Performance Series — as part of CPR Center for Performance Research
Friday, May 16 & Saturday, May 17, 2025
361 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
GRAYSON EARLE
Grayson Earle is a new media artist and educator. He has worked as a professor at Oberlin College, the New School, and the City University of New York. He is the co-creator of Bail Bloc and a member of The Illuminator art collective. His work uses the context of art to materialize ideas and forms surrounding the role that digital technologies and networks can play in protest and political agency. He exhibits inside and outside of traditional art spaces, working with guerrilla video projection, cryptocurrency, machine learning, simulation, sculpture, and the internet. Earle has held fellowships at Akademie Schloss Solitude, ZK/U, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, and Pioneer Works. He has presented his work and research at The Whitney Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, Radical Networks, the Magnum Foundation, and Open Engagement. Recent exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum (USA), Centro de Cultura Digital (Mexico), Kate Vass Galerie (Switzerland), and The Red House (Taiwan).
Johannes Büttner
Johannes Büttners work explores speculative and scientifically grounded socio-economic phenomena. He studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. In 2023/24, he was a fellow at the Berlin Program for Artists (bpa//). Recently, he has participated in several prominent exhibitions, including the 16th Istanbul Biennale (2019), Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2018), Kunsthalle Mainz (2020), KW Berlin (2023), and Kunsthalle Schirn (2024). Johannes has been recognized with numerous grants and awards. In 2022, his film “Platform” was nominated for the German Short Film Award. His latest film, “Soldaten des Lichts,” a co-production with ZDF’s “Das kleine Fernsehspiel,” is currently in post-production.