Microscope Gallery is pleased to present "The First Circle: Radical Humanism," a group exhibition of works and live performances/presentations by groundbreaking digital artists curated by Claudia Hart and Natasha Chuk.

The exhibition was inspired by Hart's personal search to identify and bring together a group of artists of her generation with similar artistic trajectories such as: transitioning into digital technologies from other mediums; working with "expressive, figurative and representational" imagery, rather than algorithmic and abstract; and creating innovative works that do not easily fit into prevailing and historical narratives.

The works in "First Circle: Radical Humanism" were made between 1974 and 2022 and represent a wide-range of approaches and technologies including computer drawings, 3-D animations, Machinima, installation, sculpture, holograms, mixed-media, photography, video, robotics and more. Restorations of several of the historical works that were completed within the past two years will be on view.

The curators also have plans for a catalog for their project which will feature the "computer origin stories" of thirty-seven artists including those in this exhibition.