I. DEMOCRATISING TECHNOLOGY "WHEN ELECTRICITY PRICES PREVENT older people from heating their homes, and the River Thames is just down the road, why aren't we using it to power our city?" was a question posed by a member of The Geezers, a seniors' group at...
HEALED PORT, digital collage, Beverly Naidus, 2016. I. INTRODUCTION AS I GAZE OUT OF MY studio window, I look out upon the traditional territory of the Puyallup people http://www.puyallup-tribe.com/ourtribe/, one of many Coast Salish communities that sits...
I. INTRODUCTION: CHANGE HAPPENS AT THE SPEED OF TRUST IN 2018, ROBERT BENITEZ, PROGRAMS COORDINATOR at the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH), attended a Los Angeles Regional Census Table about the 2020 Census. Community-based and other non-profit...
Open only to WEAD member-artists, each portfolio is curated by the WEAD Editorial Committee to showcase artists whose work reflects diverse approaches to environmental and social justice art. ARTISTS HEIDI BRUECKNER KITE (aka Suzanne Kite) PETRA KUPPERS...
WHAT TRIGGERED YOU? A new conspiracy by QAnon posted on the Epoch Times Instagram? Perhaps Trump's body-shaming of a reporter on Twitter? How did you react? Like. Share. Comment. Forward. The perfect storm of hyper-targeted marketing, deep learning, and...
EXPLORING PUBLIC ART PRACTICES, 2016 Vimeo. Kenneth Rainin Foundation CALIFORNIA ARTIST MILDRED HOWARD draws on African American family, community, and cultural history to develop multi-layered installations based on the power of memory to reveal and to heal. She...
THIS EXHIBITION FOCUSES ON THE IMPACT OF WAR on environments and on inhabitants of war zones. Recent escalating tensions between Iran and the United States are creating an increase in anxiety about potential war between the countries. Thus, the goal of the exhibition...
INTRODUCTION TEN LITTLE CHILDREN (ONE GOT SHOT AND THEN THERE WERE NINE), 1991, Mildred Howard. 2020 will be remembered as the strange year in which life messed with normality, big time. Originally, we expected to publish one or two months ago. That was overt hubris....
Life on our planet began with slime, and will likely end in slime. At the time when the earth became hot At the time when the heavens turned about At the time when the sun was darkened To cause the moon to shine The time of the rise of the Pleiades The slime,...
DEEP DOWN TIDAL from Tabita Rezaire on Vimeo. SORRY FOR REAL from Tabita Rezaire on Vimeo. PREMIUM CONNECT from Tabita Rezaire on Vimeo. AFRO CYBER RESISTANCE from Tabita Rezaire on Vimeo. Hoetep...
I. INTRODUCTION Sin Kabeza Productions is a collective of activist artists dedicated to the creation and dissemination of experimental transmedia that was co-founded and is co-directed by Lissette Olivares and Cheto Castellano. We use transmedia storytelling...
Editor's Note: For readers unfamiliar with Interface Theory, I would like to provide a brief context for Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen's intervention. Interface Theory has been described as an approach to questions of the human relationship to technology, with the...
I. INTRODUCTION I AM VERY INTERESTED IN integrating the innovation, creativity and critical thinking of artists into broader social perspectives that challenge a 'formalized' dependence on social patterns dominated by technology, science and political power....
ON AN ICY DECEMBER day in Winnipeg, Canada I was lucky enough to spend a couple of hours with Reva Stone talking about life and her art practice. Winnipeg is a funny place. It is a small-ish city with a strong arts community that has produced many...
I HAD ORIGINALLY PLANNED to write commentary highlighting innovative women-identified eco artists who work with technology, from a fascinating international field of practices generating new thoughts, ideas and areas of growth within the environmental movement....
I. INTRODUCTION WHEN I STARTED WORKING ON MY research on gender performances in Bulgarian socialist film in 2008, the description of the socialist period in local and international media was generalized as a time of darkness and political oppression. Although useful...
Open only to WEAD listing artists and members, each Portfolio is curated by the Editorial Committee to showcase artists whose work reflects diverse approaches to environmental and social justice art. ARTISTS ANGELA GONZALEZ CAROL LAMBERT FABIOLA MARTINEZ...
GUEST EDITOR INTRODUCTION By Susan Leibovitz Steinman Magazine Founder/WEAD Co Founder This special issue of WEAD MAGAZINE brings together the work of female identified artists and scholars working with emerging technologies. It follows work showcased in WEAD's...
INTRODUCTION AS SCIENCE INFORMS THE WORKS of more and more artists, the commonalities between scientists and artists are becoming better understood. A familiar theme shared by many in both professions is a large degree of social responsibility. Artists and scientists...
I. PROJECT INTRODUCTION NATURE BODY CONNECT WAS AN experimental, interactive exhibition of digital art and photography. It took place at the AIM (Artists In Mission) Gallery in November 2014 in Pittsburgh PA. This unique exhibition, featuring thirteen art works,...