[E21] Escaping Peak Visuality

DOG is pleased to present [E21] Escaping Peak Visuality, an evening exploring what lies beyond this moment of maximal image culture at the frontiers of multi-sensory experience.

What happens to human experience when aesthetic production reaches the point of collapse? How do we escape the flatness and disconnection of digitally-mediated images? What new communities and technologies emerge when we privilege feeling over seeing?

We’ve reached peak visuality, a moment when the systems circulating images have begun to overrun the production circuits that feed them. Yet out of this saturation emerges an exciting opportunity, an opening to foster new human experiences that elevate the multi-sensory, the embodied, and the communal.

Join us for a discussion examining the post-ocular future, led by Adina Glickstein on the cultural forces reshaping our visual world, in conversation with Jake Nagle (VP of Osmo), and Alex Yenni (co-founder of Fjord), exploring digital olfaction, collective embodiment, and a desire for something shared beyond the screen.

Adina Glickstein is a writer and editor at large for Spike Art Magazine currently pursuing her PhD in art history & media studies at Stanford. She writes a monthly column on internet culture called User Error. 



Alex Yenni is the co-founder of Fjord, a company building a thermal culture authentic to California.

Jake Nagle is VP of Sales at Osmo, a machine olfaction startup using AI to digitize smell

RSVP HERE

6pm: Doors open
6:30pm: Presentations & Discussion
Address: 428 Waller Street, San Francisco, CA

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ABOUT DOG
DOG is a dynamic project space exploring emergent cultural themes through an ongoing series of in-person events. An experimental, physical complement to its parent, Landscape, a brand strategy and design studio in San Francisco, CA, the events make tangible the studio’s commitment to nurturing our collective social fabric and supporting new ideas, technologies, and opportunities for cultural expression.

ABOUT LANDSCAPE
Landscape is an integrated creative studio providing brand strategy, design systems, and campaign production to clients pursuing intentional, sustainable, and influential change across a range of sectors—science, technology, social, environmental, arts, and culture.

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ACCESSIBILITY
Please note there is one flight of stairs leading up to the entrance of the venue. There are accessible toilets. For any questions regarding access to our space, please reach out via dog@dogdogdog.xyz.

PRIVACY
We’re mindful of privacy rights and would like you to know that at some events, we intend to capture the event with photographs—at times, flash will be used. Some of these images will likely be shared with our community online, on social media and our website. If you wish for your image not to be used, please reach out to us at the event or via email.