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Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 1 & 2)

eyebeamnyc — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 23:48:01 GMT

Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 3 & 4)

eyebeamnyc — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 23:44:26 GMT

Body of Workers Project Launch at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 4)

eyebeamnyc — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 22:54:39 GMT

Veil Machine is a collaborative project where Cléo Ouyang, Thea Luce, and Empress Wu are creating a new form of digital riot to challenge SESTA/FOSTA and EARN IT. Their project is in collaboration with Kink Out Events to produce Body of Workers (BoW), a private online gallery titled created by and for sex worker artists as an act of resilience against the gentrification of the internet, and a peepshow to the art patron.

Kink Out brings intersecting communities together. As an ever-evolving container, Kink Out is a performance space, screening room, art collaboration, panel discussion, S&M club, call to action, tattoo studio, art auction, and fundraiser for communities most affected by the injustice of censorship, criminalization, and demonization of our lives and livelihoods.

From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam.

This talk was recorded on February 20, 2021, the fourth (and final) day of the festival celebrating Veil Machine in collaboration with Kink Out Events and Dillon Sung in collaboration with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition with talks by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Vincent Southerland, Laurie Jo Reynolds and the Chicago 400, conversations with Juno Mac & Ze Royale, and hosted by nash sheard.

Dillon Sung and the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Launch at Eyebeam's From the Rupture (Day 4)

eyebeamnyc — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 22:45:54 GMT

The SLSC Archive will be a digital, and eventually physical, resource built for civic engagement and open access to thousands of PRA (Public Records Act) documents received from the LAPD and the City of Los Angeles. The archive will support community members, organizers, artists, journalists, and researchers doing work against state surveillance, by providing access to information as well as models and archive tools for organizers who want to develop their own community-based archives locally. The archive represents the ongoing resistance against state surveillance, and aims to contribute to the building of community power towards abolition.

Dillon Sung and the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition at Eyebeam's From the Rupture (Day 4)

eyebeamnyc — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 22:26:47 GMT

This video was presented on February 20, 2021, the fourth (and final) day of the festival celebrating Veil Machine in collaboration with Kink Out Events and Dillon Sung in collaboration with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition with talks by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Vincent Southerland, Laurie Jo Reynolds and the Chicago 400, conversations with Juno Mac & Ze Royale, and hosted by nash sheard.

Roderick Schrock and Deana Haggag at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 4)

eyebeamnyc — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 22:26:42 GMT

Deana Haggag is the President & CEO of United States Artists, a national arts funding organization based in Chicago, IL. Before joining USA in February 2017, she was the Executive Director of The Contemporary, a nomadic and non-collecting art museum in Baltimore, MD, for four years. In addition to her leadership roles, Deana lectures extensively, consults on various art initiatives, contributes to cultural publications, and has taught at institutions such as Johns Hopkins University and Towson University. She is on the Board of Trustees of the Detroit Institute of Arts and The Underground Museum, as well as the Artistic Director's Council of Prospect.5 and Advisory Council of Recess. She received her MFA in Curatorial Practice from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a BA from Rutgers University in Art History and Philosophy.

Roderick Schrock is an arts organizer and curator. As a non-profit executive, he leads the functional capacities of Eyebeam’s direct artist support and guides its focus to realign societal relationships with emergent technologies. He builds institutional capacity in order for artists to gain roles as cultural leaders and conceives and implements programs that elevate their work in society.

He currently teaches in the Curatorial Practice MA Program at the School of Visual Arts and has taught at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM), California College of the Arts, and New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. He is a member of the Guild of Future Architects, sits on the Netherlands America Foundation Cultural Committee, and is a founding board member of Art+Feminism.

Veil Machine and Kink Out in conversation with Nash Sheard at Eyebeam's From the Rupture (Day 4)

eyebeamnyc — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 22:26:17 GMT

Veil Machine is a collaborative project where Cléo Ouyang, Thea Luce, and Empress Wu are creating a new form of digital riot to challenge SESTA/FOSTA and EARN IT. Their project is in collaboration with Kink Out Events to produce Body of Workers (BoW), a private online gallery created by and for sex worker artists as an act of resilience against the gentrification of the internet, and a peepshow to the art patron.

Laurie Jo Reynolds and the Chicago 400 at Eyebeam's From the Rupture (Day 4)

eyebeamnyc — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 22:25:55 GMT

Laurie Jo Reynolds is a policy advocate and artist who challenges the demonization, warehousing, and social exclusion of people in the criminal legal system, often long-term efforts at the margins of political viability. Focusing on the retributive extremes of solitary confinement and public conviction registries, Reynolds collaborates with justice advocates, state officials, cultural workers, and people directly affected by violence and incarceration to encourage policies that truly prevent victimization and restore and rehabilitate, rather than damage, people in the justice system.

The Chicago 400 are parents, grandparents, veterans, providers, mentors, church members, hard workers, and faithful friends. We are also people with past convictions that require registration who are experiencing homelessness and therefore have to re-register weekly at Chicago Police Headquarters or receive a new felony conviction. Most of us are homeless due to housing banishment laws. The Chicago 400 Alliance are the individuals and organizations supporting us in our shared public safety goals: prevent crime, support survivors, and hold people accountable for harm—then let people with past convictions move on w/ our lives. For real. We are believers in God, peace, restoration, and in the possibility that our lives will change with the support of people like you.
Twitter: @Chicago400
www.chicago400.net

Joining today from the Chicago 400 are:
Terrance Chism
JC Clark
Steven Diggs
Benjamin Head
Robert Priest
Thomas C. Williams

Juno Mac and Ze Royale at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 4)

eyebeamnyc — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 22:25:06 GMT

Juno Mac is a sex worker and activist with the Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM), a sex worker-led collective based in the UK. Along with Molly Smith, she is the co-author of REVOLTING PROSTITUTES: The Fight For Sex Workers' Rights, published in 2018.

Ze Royale is a writer, performance artist, sexual anarchist, and pleasure activist whose philosophy of subjectivity and individualism is threaded in all of their work. Provocation, eccentricity, and erotic neurosis are shown through visual representation. Ze performs in text, film, and via chanting rituals in the music duo Zoid^. New work: performance installation called Daymares.

Body of Workers with Kink Out Events at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 4)

eyebeamnyc — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 22:24:21 GMT

Body of Workers is a private gallery created by and for sex worker artists. BoW intends to serve as an art sanctuary for sex workers, an act of resilience against the gentrification of the internet, and a peepshow to the art patron

Please note the Body of Workers website is still a prototype and is only supported on your desktop with Chrome.

Vincent Southerland, Dillon Sung, and Hamid Khan at Eyebeam's From the Rupture (Day 4)

eyebeamnyc — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 22:24:08 GMT

Vincent Southerland is the inaugural Executive Director for the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at NYU Law. He has dedicated his career to advancing racial justice and civil rights. Southerland spent seven years at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), where he was a Senior Counsel engaged in litigation and advocacy at the intersection of race and criminal justice.

Dillon Sung is a multimedia artist and community organizer based in Southern California. Dillon's research as a Ph.D. student and Provost Fellow of American Studies & Ethnicity at USC is on the question of migrant self-determination and the conditions of possibility for full participation for stateless peoples—considering the historical function of Korean statelessness in particular. Her interdisciplinary work analyzes how affective practices—such as grief, missing, wanting of possibility—can generate resistive subject formations for the speculative potential of stateless socialities in imperiling the notion(s) of citizenship, settler colonialism, and nation-statehood. She also informs and engages her research with an art practice through discourses of fine art—namely social practice—and performance studies. She is a 2019 – 2021 Imagining America PAGE Co-Director and the lead artist in developing the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Archive as a 2020 – 2021 Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future Fellow at Eyebeam.

Hamid Khan (stoplapdspying@gmail.com): Hamid Khan is an organizer and coordinator with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. The mission of the coalition is to build community-based power to dismantle police surveillance, spying, and infiltration programs. The coalition utilizes multiple campaigns to advance an innovative organizing model that is Los Angeles-based but has implications regionally, nationally, and internationally. As founder and former Executive Director of South Asian Network (1990-2010), Hamid helped create the first grassroots community-based organization in Los Angeles committed to informing and empowering thousands of South Asians in Southern California to act as agents of change in eliminating biases, discrimination, and injustices. Hamid also serves on the board of May First Technology, a membership organization that engages in building movements by advancing the strategic use and collective control of technology for local struggles, global transformation, and emancipation without borders.

Vincent Southerland at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 4)

eyebeamnyc — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 22:01:44 GMT

Valencia James and the Volumetric Performance Toolbox at Eyebeam's From the Rupture

eyebeamnyc — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 22:00:53 GMT

Developed in response to the shuddering effects of Covid-19 on performers worldwide and their ability to connect with live audiences, Volumetric Performance Toolbox offers accessible, user-friendly technology built to empower creators to perform from their own living spaces for a virtual audience. VPT ushers in new possibilities for the creation of and experience of live performance in immersive web environments, while focusing on the creation of a product that requires minimal equipment or previous technical expertise. The toolbox aims to build an expansive community amongst the creators the tool is built for: Movement Artists of all backgrounds, orientations, and abilities, with priority on Black, Indigenous, POC, disabled, and other marginalized communities.

This talk was recorded on February 19, 2021, the third day of the festival celebrating Aladin Borioli (APIAN) and Valencia James (Volumetric Performance Toolbox) with talks by Aza Raskin, Kara Gilmour, LaJuné McMillan, conversations with Amelia Winger-Bearskin & Valencia James, Paige Mulhern, Shay Willette, & Aladin Borioli, and hosted by Lauren Ruffin.

Sasha Costanza-Chock at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 4)

eyebeamnyc — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 22:00:47 GMT

Sasha Costanza-Chock (they/them or she/her) is a researcher and designer who works to support community-led processes that build shared power, move towards collective liberation, and advance ecological survival. They are known for their work on networked social movements, transformative media organizing, and design justice. Sasha is a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a joint appointment in Media Arts & Sciences at the MIT Media Lab and the Department of Urban Studies+Planning. They are a Senior Research Fellow at the Algorithmic Justice League (ajl.org) and a Faculty Affiliate with the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Sasha is a board member of Allied Media Projects (alliedmedia.org) and a member of the Steering Committee of the Design Justice Network (designjustice.org). Sasha is the author of two books and numerous journal articles, book chapters, and other research publications. Their new book, Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need, was published by the MIT Press in 2020.

nash sheard at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 4)

eyebeamnyc — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 22:00:22 GMT

nash leads EFF's grassroots, student, and community organizing efforts. As the lead coordinator of the Electronic Frontier Alliance, nash works to support the Alliance's member organizations in educating their neighbors on digital-privacy best practices, and advocating for privacy and innovation protecting policy and legislation.

nash's work is informed by lived experience with aggressive and militarized policing in the United States, Honduras, and Palestine, including racial profiling, the effects of biased broken windows policing tactics, and police brutality. nash has worked extensively to help mitigate the damage of harmful interactions with law enforcement online and in over-policed communities. Before joining EFF, as co-founder of Black Movement Law Project and a member of Mutant Legal, nash spent close to a decade training communities in crisis on how to document police conduct, exercise their legal rights, counteract state repression and actively participate in their own legal defense.

APIAN, The Intimacy Machine Launch at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 3)

eyebeamnyc — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 22:00:15 GMT

Since 2014, the DIY humanities research project called Apian has followed an ongoing and open-ended ethnography which explores the age-old interspecies relationship of bees to humans and humans to bees. Apain’s project takes the form of The Intimacy Machine, a new digital artwork in the form of a web platform that will serve as a refuge where humans are able to have egalitarian encounters with bees without the need for physical proximity

Volumetric Performance Toolbox Fellows at Eyebeam's From the Rupture (Day 3)

eyebeamnyc — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 21:59:31 GMT

Amelia Winger-Bearskin and Valencia James at Eyebeam's From the Rupture (Day 3)

eyebeamnyc — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 21:59:15 GMT

Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist/technologist who helps communities leverage emerging technologies to effect positive change in the world. She is a Senior Technical Training Specialist at Contentful in the SF Bay Area. In 2016 she went on to found and direct the DBRS Innovation Lab, an applied research lab that specialized in developing creative uses of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies.

Volumetric Performance Toolkit reimagines immersive web spaces as a site for addressing the need for more equitable representation of humans in mediated performance. Volumetric Performance Toolbox offers accessible, user friendly technology built to empower movement artists to perform from their own living spaces for a virtual audience.

APIAN's Intimacy Machine at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 3)

eyebeamnyc — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 21:58:18 GMT

The Intimacy Machine is a digital artwork and web platform exploring the age-old interspecies relationship between bees and humans. It presents a multi-dimensional artist-led ethnographic study on the effect of emerging for-profit technologies utilized within the world of beekeeping. The work points to the broader implications of these interventions across the larger agricultural industry, and offers a blueprint or call for technology that takes into account the perspective of bees and knowledge collected over thousands of years of human and bee relationships. How can technology open up opportunities for more intimate and thorough interspecies relationships?

This video was presented on February 19, 2021, the third day of the festival celebrating Aladin Borioli (APIAN) and Valencia James (Volumetric Performance Toolbox) with talks by Aza Raskin, Kara Gilmour, LaJuné McMillan, conversations with Amelia Winger-Bearskin & Valencia James, Paige Mulhern, Shay Willette, & Aladin Borioli, and hosted by Lauren Ruffin.

LaJuné McMillian at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 3)

eyebeamnyc — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 21:55:11 GMT

LaJuné McMillian is a new media artist and creative technologist creating art that integrates performance, extended reality, and physical computing to question our current forms of communication. LaJuné has had the opportunity to show and speak about their work at National Sawdust, Creative Tech Week, and Art && Code’s Weird Reality. LaJuné was previously the Director of Skating at Figure Skating in Harlem, where they integrated STEAM and figure skating to teach girls of color about movement and technology. They have continued their research on Blackness, movement, and technology during residencies at Eyebeam, Barbarian Group, and Barnard College.