2022 COLLOQUIUM PROGRAMMING:

*Several video recordings are password-protected, with a single password that was sent to current students from the graduate programs office.

Members of the public who are interested in viewing the password-protected recordings of the discussions, workshops, and other programming from the Art After Audiences colloquium should contact the MassArt graduate programs office at gradprogram@massart.edu.

2022 COLLOQUIUM VISITING ARTISTS + SPEAKERS

Violet Forest (Violeta López, b. 1990) is a digital artist / creative technologist and cofounder of cybertwee. She completed her Masters in Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute Chicago (2016) in the Art & Technology program and has worked as a UX Design Technologist and front-end developer. Her practice involves working creatively with emerging technologies and tools such as VR/AR, 3D, GAN art, computer vision, and web art. Currently she is focusing on minting her work as NFTs on Foundation and Hic et nunc.

Carla Gannis is an transmedia artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She produces works that consider the uncanny complications between grounded and virtual reality, nature and artifice, science and science fiction in contemporary culture. Fascinated by digital semiotics, Gannis takes a horror vacui approach to her artistic practice, culling inspiration from networked communication, art and literary history, emerging technologies and speculative design. Gannis’s work has appeared in exhibitions, screenings and internet projects across the globe. Gannis holds a BFA and MFA in Painting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Boston University, respectively. Currently, she is Industry Professor at New York University (NYU) in the Integrated Design and Media Program, Department of Technology, Culture and Society, Tandon School of Engineering. She is a Year 7 Alum of NEW INC, in the XR: Bodies in Space track, New York, NY.

Julieta Gil is a visual artist based in Mexico City. She holds an MFA from the Media Arts program at UCLA. In 2020, she received the Lumen Prize for Art and Technology, Gold Award. She was a grant recipient of Mexico’s National Fund for Culture and Arts in the field of art and technology research and production, 2015-16. Her work has been presented in museums and galleries internationally. Gil’s creative research incorporates three dimensional form. Whether it’s creating installation, sculpture, 3D renderings or animation, she works with computers as means to reflect on how we are altered by the digitization of our material existence. She’s interested in the overlaps that occur in the interaction between physical and digital realities. Through her work, she creates narratives that reflect upon institutional pasts, presents, and futures. Her work touches upon ides of feminism, subversive technologies, fiction and memory and how these can be used to resignify, reimagine and reshape our understanding of institutions, and monuments to be more precise.

María Angélica Madero is an artist interested in virtuality and the materiality of language. She’s Founding Faculty at London Interdisciplinary School, a new university based on a radical approach to interdisciplinary education. Maria Angélica has been part of several collectives such as UHIM (Heterogeneous Unity of Moving Images), (Play)ground-less, Carnaval Digital and No te oigo (contemporary music). Recent shows include Design in an age of crisis, 2021 (London Design Biennale at the Somerset Gallery) Facing oneself, 2021 (Surrey Art Gallery, Canada), Escaleras futuras, 2020 (El Parqueadero, Museo del Banco de la República de Colombia) Simbiosis Entrópica, 2020 (Museo de Arte de Pereira, Colombia), Wrong Biennale, Megalith, 2019 (curated by Metameth Labs, Svalbard, Norway). She is interested in participation, emancipation, and social transformation through education. From 2015 to 2020 she was Head of Art at El Bosque University..

Camilo Pachón is a multidisciplinary artist based in Bogotá, Colombia, who explores the ritual, political, spiritual and transformative dimensions of the mask as an ever-present cultural artifact. His work uses the ancestral technology of mask-making to open doors for identity shifts, the exploration of agency, freedom, sexuality, and the relationship between body and nature. His work is socially engaged and spans a wide range of mediums and formats, from photography and film to performance and installation. For over 8 years, Camilo has traveled throughout the Caribbean and the streets of Barranquilla (Colombia), investigating the traditional costumes and carnival culture, the spiritual, socio-political and cultural implications of celebration as a form of public assembly. Camilo has exhibited his work in Colombia, as well as internationally in countries including Germany, United States, Spain, France, and Switzerland. His work is an anthropological exploration of unlikely contexts, in which the viewer is immersed in a universe that goes beyond the image, embodying rituals, spiritual characters, and other-worldly symbolisms.