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Cinthya Santos Briones
Through dynamic portraits, Cinthya Santos Briones showcases the traditional systems of mutual support that undergird many Indigenous Central and North American cultures, forming a safety net in New York City. “Each of these peoples come with their own language, culture, and identity that is glossed over or erased in many discussions of Latin American migration to the United States. What many of these peoples share, however, is an idea of reciprocity and mutual support—“giving, returning and receiving”—as a social organizing system.”
Produced with support from the Magnum Foundation and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and published in The Nation.
Rian Dundon
Tracing how social movements become fodder for media content and citizen surveillance, Rian Dundon shows us what's on the other side of the lens as livestreamers and citizen journalists provide constant footage of BLM protests in Portland. “The visual nature of the protests combined with the sheer number of cameras contributed to a layering effect, as if every image were now a picture about how pictures were being made.”
Produced with support from the Magnum Foundation and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and published in The Nation.
Alice Yuan Zhang
A durational participatory performance experimenting with the potentiality of our online attention and the labor of digital sovereignty. Streaming on solar power through the distributed web, a garden plot awaits visitors to generate instructions together that will be carried out each week, providing a neutral substrate for active reflection on digital commoning, responsibility, and governance.
Joseph Brock
Nikeloops sets up a virtual situation for the viewer to experience mechanics of the body through patterns, movement, and loops. The work is made so that the viewer's mind can roam away from their own body, allowing the runner to become an avatar of escape and discovery. Coming April 21!
Elizabeth Swados
A dramatic oratorio re-imagined as a multimedia odyssey online, where you are invited to experience the music through 11 unique VR environments, uncovering the stories, as well as delving into the scientific or cultural references discussed by the music.
In its 15th year, Nature Created by Design presents artworks grappling global environmental issues facing humanity today. This year’s topic is ‘Coexistence’: participating works examine how fauna and flora can live in harmony within the confined space of the Earth. This year, works from six colleges around the world are being displayed at the ATEC Virtual Gallery at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.
Four indie digital games from students at CultureHub’s co-founding institution, Seoul Institute of the Arts. These games explore identity and fantasy through positioning the player in unusual POVs, and utilize interactive mechanics to explore agency.
Emily Teng
A slice of life video game encompassing a day in the life of an ordinary college student whose hyperfixation on local graffiti keeps them distracted from their rapidly declining mental health.
Zeynep Abes
An exploration of three moments of memory particular to the fraying certainty of my home. The piece navigates through visualizations of private and public recollections, delving into the Istanbul I once called home, now existing increasingly more as an idea than a place.
Zheng Fang
Walk around a half-ruined photogrammetry landscape of stretched textures and miniature models that evokes the sensation of walking outside during the COVID-19 quarantine. Creator Zeng Fang: “I miss my friends terribly during the quarantine and want to visit them. So I made this game to roam around in.”
Ivy Lovett
What better way to socially distance than becoming a fly and chatting on rotting food? In this game, you can taste the finest cuisine, explore the unknown, and lounge with all your fly friends. Discover nooks and crannies, and if you’re lucky, a bit of drama – suburbia may seem pristine on the outside, however, it unveils itself through its waste.
Alvaro Azcarraga
Zea Mays reimagines our relationship with food systems and their histories. This work reexamines our (Homo sapiens) continuous co-evolution with teosinte (Zea) and its process of domestication into maize (Zea Mays). Through engraved tortillas, we look at maize's complex history and its position globally, then retell those histories and give it back to the land. Coming soon!
Kaitlin Bryson
This artwork Re-circulates materials, biotic and abiotic, to demonstrate the abounding exchanges happening through (and between) the living and the dying. Rotting organic material inoculated with fungi is wrapped in quilted fiber as a “death shroud” made to carry the “deceased” safely on to the next life, simultaneously creating a habitat supporting these transitions. Coming soon!
Clarissa Ribeiro
Taking and combining as raw data in a generative design experiment the audio track of short videos’ shared by friends and colleagues based on each of the seven continents – North and South America, Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia and Antarctica – as glimpses of their surrounding environment, the artist produces a series of data-sculptures celebrating the vital need of getting together, the seducing transcendence of contamination. Coming March 15!
Robert Platt, Cara Levine, Stephanie Imbeau, Laine Rettmer, Richelle Gribble, Isabel Beavers, Britt Ransom, Allison Maria Rodriguez, Michael Najjar
An exhibition by SUPERCOLLIDER that uses the site of the Arctic Wilderness to consider human and non-human roles in exploring the red planet Mars. The exhibition originally premiered during an analogue mission on Mars at the Hawai’i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) and has been expanded and re-iterated into a virtual exhibition for Re-Fest. Join the Opening Reception on April 16!
Naomieh Jovin
Naomieh Jovin shares her experience as a Haitian American image maker, shaped by the resilient women in her family. “When I told my godmother that I wanted to become a photographer, she jokingly asked me, ‘So you can go to Haiti, be like all the other journalists and photograph just the bad stuff?’ This is every Haitian immigrant’s story: We are here in America and all we see in the news is a grim representation of the home we know and love.”
Produced with support from the Magnum Foundation and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and published in The Nation.