Unraveling Together in "Unbounded Unleashed Unforgiving" on New Art City

About New Art City

‍New Art City launched in March of 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the multiple closures of exhibition spaces. The platform and community is a virtual 3D multiplayer art space created by d0n.xyz with contributions by Benny Lichtner and Martin Mudenda Bbela. New Art City gives all artwork a global stage, which transforms traditional art and offers a new native format for digital art. We are an artist run organization and we are dedicated to supporting artists in everything we do, especially those who face barriers in the traditional fine art world. That's why we provide virtual space to those who are denied physical space, and why we promote and amplify work by queer artists and artists of color. We are building a system which empowers artists to realize the impossible, and dream a new type of art.

Unbounded Unleashed Unforgiving Artists

Agatha Park
(She/Her) Agatha Sunyoung Park is a new media artist who creates works on issues of cultural identity(both physical and virtual) and women’s experiences. She has presented her work at SIGGRAPH, the College Arts Association Conference and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art. She studied 3D animation, new media and participatory art at the School of Visual Arts(BFA) and Harvard University(MDes).

Alex Saum
(she/her) Alex Saum is a poet whose work explores the intersection of female representation in digital media and online spaces as these relate to offline environments in the Capitalocene. Her digital artwork and poetry have been exhibited in galleries and art festivals in the United States and abroad. She is also an Associate Professor of New Media and Contemporary Spanish Literature at UC Berkeley, part of the Executive Committee of the Berkeley Center for New Media and the board of directors of the Electronic Literature Organization. She held a 2020 Arts Research Center poetry fellowship.

Anastasiia Raina
(she/her) Anastasiia Raina is an artist, researcher, and an Assistant Professor at Rhode Island School of Design. She graduated from the Yale School of Art with an MFA in Graphic Design. In her research-based practice, Raina is interested in exploring the aesthetics of technologically mediated natures through machine vision, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and the incorporation of biomaterials into the artistic vernacular. She draws upon scientific inquiry and collaborations with scientists as a means for generating new methodologies and forms in design.

Annette Isham
(she/her) Annette Isham currently lives and works in Denver, Colorado. Isham received her B.A. in Studio Art at the University of Richmond (Virginia) and an M.F.A. from The American University in Washington, D.C. Isham has exhibited nationally, most recently showing the series, Among The Multitudes, at CURRENTS International Media Festival in Santa Fe and her film Unfolded at Side Stories in RiNo Denver. Isham recently completed a residency at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, CO and she is currently teaching 4D and Animation at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design.

Bev Yockelson
(it/its) as bev yockelson awoke one morning from uneasy dreams it found itself transformed in its bed into a gigantic insect. c’est la vie, i guess. bev holds a BA in creative writing with a minor in film studies from the university of san francisco, and an MFA in multidisciplinary art from the mount royal school of art at MICA. bev currently lives in queens, ny with its partner nico and their fat cat, calloway. see more work at www.bevyockelson.com or follow bev on twitter @transrobocop.

Mindy Seu
(she/her) Mindy Seu is a designer and researcher. She holds an M.Des from Harvard's Graduate School of Design and a B.A. in Design Media Arts from University of California, Los Angeles. As a fellow at the Harvard Law School's Berkman Klein Center for the Internet & Society, she began the Cyberfeminism Index, which was later commissioned by Rhizome and presented at New Museum. She has also been a fellow at the Internet Archive, co-organizing the Arts Track of the inaugural Decentralized Web Summit. Formerly she was a designer on 2×4's Interactive Media team and the Museum of Modern Art’s in-house design studio. She has given lectures and workshops at Barbican Center, CalArts, Parsons, Pratt, RISD, Berkeley Art Museum, and A-B-Z-TXT, among others. Seu joined the faculty of California College of the Arts in 2016, and Rutger’s Mason Gross School of the Arts and Yale’s School of Art in 2019.

Caroline Sinders
Caroline Sinders is a machine-learning-design researcher and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of  technology’s impact in society, interface design, artificial intelligence, abuse, and politics in digital, conversational spaces. Sinders is the founder of Convocation Design + Research, an agency focusing on the intersections of machine learning, user research, designing for public good, and solving difficult communication problems. As a designer and researcher, she has worked with Amnesty International, Intel, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation, and others. Sinders has held fellowships with the Harvard Kennedy School, the Mozilla Foundation, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Eyebeam, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, and the International Center of Photography. Her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, Omidyar Network, the Open Technology Fund and the Knight Foundation. Her work has been featured in the Tate Exchange in Tate Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum, MoMA PS1, LABoral, Ars Electronica, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Slate, Quartz, Wired, as well as others. Sinders holds a Masters from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Overworld (Constance Harris, Laura Rachel Conway, Brittney Banaei)

We are Overworld. We are a trio of Colorado, New Jersey, and Luisiana based performers and multimedia artists interested in kissing at the intersection of art and technology. You can watch.

Devin Harclerode
(she/her) Devin Harclerode holds an MFA in Painting + Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth, and a BFA in Painting from The University of Florida. Her work uses speculative discourse to rival oppressive phenomena in contemporary society. She conjures mythologies to explore fluidity (teasing the slips between speculation and the material), softness (weaponizing the malleable and bruised), and monster birth (alter egos for reproductive disembodiment). Recent solo and two person exhibitions include Loopholes (2020) at Fuller Rosen, Portland, OR, Boundaries (2020) at Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT, Prolapse (2018) at Public Pool Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and Maternity Leave: Para-natural Pregnancies (2017) at Sediment Gallery, Richmond, VA. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at The University of Florida.

Eva Davidova
(she/her) Eva Davidova is an interdisciplinary artist with focus on new media(s), information, and their political implications. Disrupting and challenging a singular narrative, she combines influences from ancient mythology with the current technological moment and the impending ecological catastrophe. Davidova has exhibited at the Bronx Museum, the Everson Museum, the Albright Knox Museum, CAAC Sevilla, La Regenta, and CBBAA Madrid among others. She is a member of NEW INC, the NEW MUSEUM Incubator.

German Lavrovskii
(he/him) German Lavrovskii (b. 1995, Moscow) is a research based artist whose interests include queerness, care, reproduction, and the prototyping of the future. Starting out in fashion and codes of self-design and moving into postdigital plastic arts, Lavrovsky is interested in contemporary visual economies of gender and historical experiments with postnuclear family relationships. All of his work can be seen on public platforms and is open code and free of copyright. He lives and works in Moscow.

A.M. Darke
(she/ he/ sir) A.M. Darke is an artist designing radical tools for social intervention. Still in the class war. Now in the pandemic. He’s in the combination class war and pandemic. Assistant Professor of Digital Arts and New Media, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, she directs The Other Lab, an interdisciplinary, intersectional feminist research space for experimental games, XR and new media at UC Santa Cruz. Darke's recent work includes ‘Ye or Nay?, a Kanye West-themed game about Black culture, and he is currently developing the Open Source Afro Hair Library, a 3D model database for Black hair styles and textures.

Jeremy Diamond
(any) Jeremy Diamond is a metalsmith, digital fabricator, and interdisciplinary artist currently operating out of Athens, Georgia, where they are pursuing their MFA at the University of Georgia. Diamond’s research is concerned with the interaction between the human body and objects, and the effect of that interaction on one’s lived experience.

Jill Miller
(she/her) Jill Miller is a visual artist who works across a wide range of media, from video installation to public practices (and many hybrids in between). She often collaborates with individuals and local communities in the form of public interventions, workshops, and participatory community projects. She describes humor as “the greatest social lubricant” for opening up meaningful conversations about difficult subjects. In past work, she: lived in the remote wilderness in search of sasquatch (Waiting for Bigfoot), assisted mothers who were harassed for breastfeeding in public (The Milk Truck), and organized teenage girls who were closing the gender gap by learning to edit Wikipedia (WOW! Editing Group). In 2019, she received an Artists in Communities Grant from the California Arts Council to create the first commissioned socially engaged artwork at the Palo Alto Art Center and the Mitchell Park Library. Miller is an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley in the Department of Art Practice and the Berkeley Center for New Media. She is affiliated faculty at the Berkeley Food Institute and Global Urban Humanities, and she teaches courses that use creative strategies to address food insecurity through community-building and activism.

Laura Splan
(she/her) Laura Splan creates tactile artworks that connect the materialities of science and technology to poetic subjectivities of the everyday. Her biomedical themed artworks have been commissioned by The CDC Foundation, exhibited at the Museum of Arts & Design and are represented in the collections of the Thoma Art Foundation and The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Articles including her work have appeared in The New York Times, Frieze, American Craft, and Discover Magazine. She has taught courses including “Embodied Interfaces” and “Data as Material” at Stanford University. She is currently a Creative Science member of NEW INC, the New Museum’s cultural incubator.

Lauren Klotzman
(they/ them) Lauren Klotzman is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator. They studied art and poetics at Sarah Lawrence College and Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and are interested in nostalgia, plagiarism, and appropriation in media, hardware, and software. They have published with Hyperallergic, Salon, TROLLTHREAD, and The Operating System. Their recent work and research explore hardware obsolescence, digital entropy, marginalized technologists, and the 1990s. They are a firm believer in lo-fi decadence.

Amanda Stojanov
(she/ her) Amanda is a media artist who investigates how innovations in communication technologies affect perceptions of identity, agency, and visibility, emphasizing concepts of embodiment and the "historically constituted body" within a networked-society. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in venues such as the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and Ars Electronica, Linz. Her work has also been featured in publications like Artillery magazine, The New York Times, and The Associated Press. Amanda holds an MFA in Media Arts from UCLA. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Monmouth University, NJ.

Luïza Luz y Vi Amoras
Luïza Luz (She/They): www.luizaluz.com  
Brazilian multimedia artist interacting with organic and digital to  create experiential learning platforms for social criticism and  integration among human beings, culture and environment. Lives  now in Berlin, Germany, and is a master student at Art in Context  Institut, Berlin University of Arts.  

Vi Amoras (She/Her): https://www.behance.net/victoriamoras @viamoras  Visual artist working with different media such as painting,  performance, costume design, video art and installation. Her work  as a Vj is based mainly on authorial videos and projection of live  paintings. Always looking to develop her artistic work with less  environmental impact, she uses the surrounding nature as a source  of inspiration and personal empowerment.

Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. (Jenifer K Wofford, Reanne Estrada, Eliza O. Barrios)
Reanne “Immaculata” Estrada, Eliza “Neneng” Barrios, and Jenifer “Baby” Wofford have worked collaboratively as Mail Order Brides/M.O.B., a trio of Filipina-American artists engaged in an ongoing conversation with culture and gender for over 20 years. M.O.B. is based in SF and LA, California.

Criticaldías
@ Criticaldías is an artistic research duo made up of Anyely Marín Cisneros and Rebecca Close. Since 2013 they have been giving workshops and conducting collective research that investigates feminist methodologies and critical pedagogies. They have developed numerous projects on memory, archives and art/activist histories.

Anyely Marín Cisneros investigates the politics of the body and its connection with racial logics. Master in Critical Theory and Museum Studies. Student of the doctoral program in History of Science at UAB. She currently teaches history, gender and medicine at the same university. She has taught in formal and informal spaces for 15 years.

Rebecca Close is an artist and poet. Author of valid, virtual, vegetable reality (2018), a book which considers the relationship between technology, language and desire. They are PhD candidate in Art at Aalto University, Finland, with a thesis on reproductive work from a queer Marxist perspective.

Maria van der Togt
(she/her) Maria van der Togt explores the role of space in a post-human world through writing and multimedia installations. Continuously dissecting the new structures of awareness that manifest within us as a result of today’s technostructure. Her installations move and manipulate the actual through lines of code. Fictioning the non-fictional. Her work pushes to start conversations on worlding in a digital age.

Otrus Extraviadus
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We are an artistic collective from Bogotá, Colombia; started by three female artists.

Otrus Extraviadus, is a latent body in continuous implosion and expansion, opens spaces to poetic and political events through the construction of networks of affection and online-offline experiments.

Is perhaps, being something else that is not yet known what form it has, more than a result, it is a conversation, a process that has no destination yet. Because there are certain things that can’t be understood at a conceptual level, you have to live/feel them. Conceive it as a subject to review, open source, pirate software for continuous discussion and incessant precipitation of bodies.

Serra
(she/her/they) Serra is a 3D artist/ multimedia designer currently based in Istanbul. Recently graduated from University for Creative Arts completing studies in Graphic Design: Visual communication BA in 2020. She defines her design practice as a playground that signifies playfulness, experimentation, exploration, and research. “Playground” is also meant to function as a gateway to contribute to potential futures by design thinking and maintaining ethical values as a designer; making conscious choices in the area of work and study. Her current work is heavily influenced by media cultures and futurism as well as language; codes, and metaphors. She does experimental video art and 3D animation as her practice alongside research as well as editorial and motion graphic design as a freelancer.

Yvette Granata
(she/her) Yvette Granata is Assistant Professor of Digital Media at the University of Michigan in the Department of Film, Television, and Media and the Digital Studies Institute. She creates immersive installations, interactive environments, video art, and hypothetical technological systems. She writes about digital culture, digital feminism, media theory and technosocial life.

Tamara Johnson/ Trey Burns
Tamara Johnson (b. 1984, Waco, TX) currently lives in Dallas, TX and works primarily in sculpture, installation and video. Johnson obtained her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007 and her MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2012. Her recent projects have been exhibited at The Nasher Sculpture Center, The Blanton Museum of Art, Carillon Gallery at Tarrant County College, the FT Worth Modern Museum, ex ovo gallery as well as various spaces in New York such as Socrates Sculpture Park, The CUE Art Foundation, Wave Hill, Maria Hernandez Park, SPRING BREAK Art Show, Microscope Gallery, NURTUREart, Black Ball Projects, and the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art. Johnson has received grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Foundation for Contemporary, the Santo Foundation, a Faculty Development Grant from Southern Methodist University (SMU) where she currently works as a Visiting Lecturer in Sculpture and most recently an NEA Grant in conjunction with Wassaic Projects in NY.

Trey Burns (b. 1984, Goldsboro, NC) currently lives in Dallas, TX and is primarily a lens-based artist, but also works as a curator, multimedia producer, and serial collaborator. Burns attended the Savannah College of Art & Design and received an MFA in 2008. In 2018, he started Sweet Pass Sculpture Park with his wife Tamara Johnson; as a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization they are dedicated to experimentation, community engagement, and creating systems that exist in the gaps between ideas of gardens, green spaces, and public spaces while supporting contemporary art. Burns has had solo exhibitions at et al Projects (Brooklyn, NY), The May Gallery (New Orleans, LA), The Hand (Queens, NY) and been shown at the Ecole Nationale d’Architecture Paris, Malaquais Gallery (Paris, France) Pavillion Vendôme (Clichy-la-Garenne, France), the St. Paul’s Cultural Center (Chicago, IL), Wassaic Projects (Wassaic, NY), ex ovo (Dallas, TX), Trestle Gallery (Brooklyn, NY). In 2020 he received an ArtsActivate grant from the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture and teaches creative computation at SMU beginning in the fall of 2020.