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ArtFoodTech talk at Parrish Art Museum

October 25, 2015
Parrish Art Museum, Mildred C. Brinn Terrace, © Hufton + Crow

Parrish Art Museum, Mildred C. Brinn Terrace,
© Hufton + Crow

ArtFoodTech

I will be presenting at the Parrish Art Museum, in Watermill, Long Island on Friday, November 6, 2015- 6:00pm, as part of their Friday Nights Talks series.

Technology is changing the way we think, approach, and eat food at an unprecedented rate. These changes are already popping up along the food chain–from smart tractors and irrigation-monitoring drones, from grocery delivery to connected kitchens, from wearable nutrition monitors and robot bartenders. I will be leading a discussion on how artists are interrogating the future of our food systems.

A press release, issued by Parrish Art Museum is available here: Parrish Art Museum, ArtFoodTech Press Release.

 

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FERMENT YOURSELF, with Ferment Lab

September 5, 2015

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As part of STWST48, I will be co-hosting a Sunday Brunch with artist Agnieszka Pokrywka of Ferment Lab, local farmers and food activists aboard the Eleonore in Linz Harbour.

During the Ferment lab’s august residency at Station Messschiff Eleonore, artist Agnieszka Pokrywka seeks local farm produces for fermentation and holds workshop with Linz locals to observe the process of fermentation.  She notes the information hidden in micro life of bacterias and further reapplies the fermentative process to consider the macro culture of our societies.

During her two weeks’ residency, 14 raw vegetables are jarred and matured over time.  The Sunday brunch serving the fermented vegetables brings together the artist with cultural worker/curator Amanda McDonald Crowley, local farmers, food activists and pubic members to engage in dialogues about food, tech, bacteria and cultures. In the program are also: fortunetelling based on study of personal bacterias, changing the taste of bread by the thoughts thought during kneading the dough, and possibly other oddities. All of these in the surrounding of balloons pumped up by yeast feed on sugar.

BIO: 
Agnieszka Pokrywka (PL/FI) is a multimedia explorer interested in participatory, collaborative and open source practices while digging into topics of fiction, unconventional storytelling and interactive, networked narratives. Her current activities are conducted mostly in connection with Pixelache, a transdisciplinary platform for experimental art, design, research and activism in Helsinki where she embodies different roles too.

STWST48 Curation: Shu Lea Cheang and Franz Xaver

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Spring 2015: SFAI 140

March 9, 2015

DurinSFAI140g my residency at Santa Fe Art Institute I will be participating in the Spring 2015 SFAI 140. SFAI presents these evenings as a combination of resident artists and thinkers, alongside a compelling group of local presenters. 1 evening; 20 speakers, 140 seconds each: a marquee event for Santa Fe’s creative community.

Talks from the evening are now available on the SFAI vimeo feed.

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SFAI residency

March 8, 2015

In March 2015, I am participating in Santa Fe Art Institute‘s food justice residency cycle. This is SFAI’s inaugural theme for residencies and programing.  From July 2014 through June 2015, SFAI is encouraging “creative minds to come together and examine the territory of food justice. Together, we will ask how can we use diverse creative practices to confront inherent social, cultural and economic problems in our food system?  Further, how can we bring together insights from creative fields, environmental sciences, sustainable agriculture, critical theory, and food studies to have local, national, and international impact?”

I will be further developing my ArtTechFood research which I had also worked on during curatorial residencies with HIAP,  New Media Scotland, and as a Bogliasco Fellow.

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TEDxManhattan 2015

March 7, 2015

TEDxManhattan: Changing the way we eat, 2015.

Watching the live stream from Santa Fe Art Institute, with the Food Justice residency thematic cohort.

 

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Kenya (Robinson): Six Thousand Is A Lot

November 2, 2014

In 2014, Kenya (Robinson) undertook a residency at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE, as part of a series of residencies I realized for artists who were specifically invited to engage with the Omaha community.

Here’s a link to a video about what Kenya was working on in her studio at the Bemis Center.

For her workshops, Kenya specifically requested access to workshop participants who were under 5 years old. We worked with our colleagues at the Bemis Center’s north Omaha location, Carver Bank, to identify local Black American kids and with Heartland Family Services who connected us with local Burmese immigrant communities. Kenya’s six week curriculum took her students through a project of learning vocabulary through taste, sound, texture, smell, and visual thinking.

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critical dialogue series, tyler school of art

October 8, 2014

On October 8, 2014, I participated in the critical dialogue series, at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, presenting on art, technology and collaborative practice.

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YES IS A WORLD – 2014 National Council of Arts Administrators Conference

September 7, 2014

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yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skillfully curled)
all worlds

from “love is a place” by E.E. Cummings

 

I’m honored to be invited by Mel Ziegler to speak at the 42nd annual gathering of the National Council of Arts Administrators in September, alongside a truly amazing line up of speakers: Richard Lloyd, Stephen Tepper, David Owens, Saralyn Reece Hardy, Pablo Helguera, Jon Rubin and Ruby Lerner.

From their web site: “The world is the new studio. Artists are involved in an ever-expanding production involving constituents beyond the art world and beyond the market place. As educational institutions, how do we respond to this massive shift in artistic attitude? Is there a balance to be found between 19th and 20th century models and the new 21stcentury practice centered around global and social interconnectedness? This conference will investigate the expanding field of art by exploring the influences of globalization, art education, and integrated practice. We will carefully look at our role as educators of creativity, influencers on our institutions as a whole, and members of our local and global communities.”

I’ll be speaking on the topic “The Art and Science of Collaboration”. Visuals from my presentation are available here on Prezi.

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Wild Style

May 24, 2014

ArtlinkWalltoWallCoverWILD STYLE a story of 1980s New York graffiti through the lens of hip hop culture: an interview with Charlie Ahearn in  WALL TO WALL: graffiti art, vol 34 no 1, 2014, of Artlink.

Wall to Wall was co-guest edited by Annemarie Kohn and Charity Bramwell. The issue offers readers a chance to compare their attitudes to graffiti art with those of a range of authorities from rappers and writers to scholars and critics. The issue covers the birth of this art movement and subcultural genre in New York four decades ago and its current role within the constantly shifting politics of public space in cities across the planet including Asia and the Arab world where the richness of calligraphy-based graffiti art and its influences on the art form in other countries adds a new dimension. Interviews and stories of many of the key artists from the past as well as documentation from cities around Australia add a personal note.

Read my interview with Charlie here: 34_1_artlink_ page 36-39

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Flock House Project Sets Up in Old Market and North Omaha

May 8, 2014

Flock House Project KMTVJustin Pazera, of KMTV in Omaha speaks to Mary Mattingly and Amanda McDonald Crowley about Flock House Project Omaha.

by Justin Pazera CREATED May 8, 2014

News article is available on the KMTV site.

 

 

 

 

Justin Pazera returned to the Old Market to talk with us as the Flock House Omaha was being installed.

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