(this has been copied from my previous newletter platform to keep in this archive!)

Here’s a round-up of everything I’m working on in the upcoming Winter season ❄️

Happy 2024 ! :) ✩

2023 Highlights →

Octavia Butler AI with Dr. Beth Coleman

This was my second (and a half) year working with Beth on her AI project inspired by Octavia Butler’s writing. With a bespoke AI Image GAN, we created images series inspired by Alice Coltrane, oceanic jellyfish, and Black Panther Party gatherings. Images were reproduced as oil paintings, and documented through a web archive, an exhibition and symposium, and (most excitingly) a published book.

UNCG

I returned to the College of Visual and Performing Arts at University of North Carolina Greensboro as an instructor of two classes, Intro to Web Design & Professional Practices. The latter focused on portfolio & CV building to support students as they graduate into careers as working artists.

Artivive AR Residency

In April, I wrapped up a year-long mentorship residency with Artivive, an AR platform focused on artists. My first time using Blender, I worked with my mentor Agnes Michalczyk, and produced an AR sculpture PaperCuts that has since exhibited in Vienna at Artivive headquarters and in the Geary Art Crawl 2023.

InterAccess

First complete year with InterAccess as Programming Manager (and first day job!) Very grateful for the opportunity to work full-time in a permanent arts position. Highlights include starting an Open HDMI event series, an after hours event inviting visual artists to plug into InterAccess’s in-house immersive projection system, IA 360°,  in an open deck style. Several Open HDMI events of the same name have been popping up around the new media scene since the first IA event in April! (1) (2)

Upcoming →

Did You Eat? | Group Exhibition @ Ed Video | January 15 – February 15, 2024

I’ll be showing a series of remixed recipes on acrylic, Ju/uu/ook, as part of a symposium focused on ✩FOOD✩ (including food production vs insecurity, cultural dishes’ role in nostalgia and tradition, and consumerism vs consumption)

Ju/uu/ook looks at the shifts in traditional recipes - whether through generations, miscommunication, or flirtation with shared or adjacent cultures - as something to be welcomed, rather than lamented as culture lost.

Recipes for juuk, char siu, and joong were run through a custom Python script, randomizing the ingredient measurements and instruction order to create a copy, reminiscent of the dish, but nonsensical. The new recipe was then written by hand with traditional calligraphy tools, digitally scanned with physical distortion, cut into acrylic, and then handpainted once again.

This project started over a year ago through a School for Poetic Computation course, Digital Love Languages, where I developed the Python script that remixes the recipe text.

• Did You Eat? | Closing Reception @ Ed Video | Feb 9 2024, 7–9PM

• Closing event to celebrate the exhibition – including a potluck!

• Did You Eat? | Artist Panel @ Online | Feb 10 2024, 3PM
  Online panel discussion with the other exhibiting artists; email maddie@edvideo.org to register.

Topics in Communication, Culture, Information & Technology | Design Consultant @ UTM | Winter semester

I’ll be working with Dr. Beth Coleman supporting her class researching conceptual data visualization with a fabrication focus.

Solidarity Infrastructures | School for Poetic Computation

I’ve been accepted to a course (on scholarship, big thank you to equity pricing) with SFPC, starting next week! We’ll be learning about “slow web, organic Internet, right-to-repair, data sovereignty, minimal computing and anti-computing”. Very excited!

Day job updates / InterAccess →

Media Arts Prize Programming | InterAccess | Jan 17 – Feb 17, 2024

• ↪ Exhibition: once more, once again | Ghislan Sutherland-Timm | January 17 – February 17, 2024

• ↪ Exhibition: Kaboos: An exhibition of nightmares | Mehrnaz Abdoos | January 17 – February 17, 2024

• ↪ Workshop: DIY Vacuum Formed Lamps | Audrey Ammann January 30, 2024, 6 – 9PM

• ↪ Artist Talk: Farming the Future | Murley Herrle-Fanning | February 3, 2024, 2 – 3:30PM

More soon! <3