Xcelerator Show. Beijing Times Art Museum.

Aug 4

This is the first full museum show that Shaoyu Su and I have curated, including concept, titling, artist choice and installation management. Incredible line up. Great space. Psyched.

08.12 through 10.14.2018

Xcelerator harnesses the field of ‘New Media Art’ to simulate the explosive creation of worlds following the Big Bang. High energy particle physics, and the massively powerful machines made for this science, serve as metaphors. The Museum has been converted into a dynamic arena where 10 works, by ten different artists and artist collectives, collide with each other. Artists and scientists have long been world builders, accelerating cultural evolution. Here, the audience plays the role of protons in motion, charging the museum space to amplify the relational perception of the art.

Xcelerator is a newly conceived exhibition-experiment, an on-going ‘research project’ that combines and energizes the museum, curators, artists and their audience in new ways. Xcelerator is iterative and dynamic. Every component provides a vital contribution to the whole. Each question answered leads to new questions, each experience begets the next.

Charles Lindsay

Charles Lindsay is an intermedia artist whose work explores the frontiers of technology, storytelling, and the cosmos. A Guggenheim Fellow, New York Times bestselling author, and founder of the SETI Institute’s Artist in Residence program (SETI AIR), Lindsay creates immersive installations that fuse salvaged aerospace components, AI-generated visuals, and biomorphic soundscapes into powerful vehicles for reimagining narrative. His projects ask provocative questions—what if an AI could dream? What if a Mars rover became a Zen monk?

Lindsay has collaborated with NASA Ames, Bell Labs, and exhibited globally, including at the MIT Media Lab. At SETI, he explored conceptual links between whale communication, Morse code, and AI pattern recognition. A dream in Kyoto—of a parking meter selling time and space in a Zen garden—became a realized installation, blending ancient philosophy with digital inquiry.

As an early alpha tester for OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video platform and a lifelong lucid dreamer, Lindsay pushes the limits of how AI can amplify human consciousness. His installations function as sensory laboratories, inviting audiences to navigate the terrain between digital revelation, aesthetic curiosity, and the collective unconscious. With humor, paradox, and deep curiosity, Lindsay’s work imagines new frontiers for art, science, and the soul.

https://www.charleslindsay.com

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