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Gallery QI - ANTIBODIES Michael Trigilio, Bobby McElver, Trish Stone, and Shahrokh Yadegari Thursday, February 24, 2022 Gallery QI, Qualcomm Institute UC San Diego https://galleryqi.ucsd.edu The antibody resists the pathogen, the virus, the infection. What we describe as viral, as pathological, can include living organisms, language, dogma, and minds. What defines a body? The body of the planet, the body of the nation-state, the body-politic, the human body, the viral body, the body of evidence, the data body, the wrong body, the perfect body. The ANTIBODIES exhibit brings together explorations in sound, image, and science that obliquely orbit questions of the body, the virus, and the resistance. Trigilio and McElver, collaborating for the first time, have designed a video and sound installation for the QI Gallery. The installation consists of a large video projection by Trigilio, an 8-minute single-channel video, Verse One for the Ten Grounded Stacks, from his recent body of work (Unmake the Uncosmos, Ecstatic). Working with sound-design and original music from Trigilio, McElver is mixing and spatializing the sound in the gallery, utilizing his own 64-channel wave field synthesis technology. Stone and QI Learning Academy 2019 students Sijie Liu, Yixing Wang, Hainan Xion created Anti-Plague, a game made in Unity, as a critical response to the popular game Plague, the goal of which was to spread a virus worldwide. The project is based on scientific data and simulates the effectiveness of social distancing, stay at home orders, and mask wearing at varying populations and timeframes. The game will be displayed in the front hallway of QI as well as playable online: https://pongcenter.itch.io/anti-plague As part of the gallery event on February 24, Yadegari presents his musical performance Music for Courtyard, an original work designed for the courtyard in front of Atkinson Hall.