Art & Art History News - November 15, 2021

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NICKI GREEN is a transdisciplinary artist working primarily in clay. Originally from New England, she completed her BFA in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009 and her MFA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley in 2018. Her sculptures, ritual objects and various flat works explore topics of history preservation, conceptual ornamentation and aesthetics of otherness.

Green has exhibited her work internationally, notably at the New Museum, New York; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Rockelmann & Partner Gallery, Berlin, Germany. She has contributed texts to numerous publications including Transgender Studies Quarterly and Fermenting Feminism, Copenhagen. In 2019, Green was a finalist for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s SECA Award, a recipient of an Arts/Industry Residency from the John Michael Kohler Art Center, among other awards. Green lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Professor Mark Amerika's latest book, My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence, has been accepted for publication by Stanford University Press. The book is the inaugural title in SUP's forthcoming "Sensing Media" series edited by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Shane Denson.

My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence [ACI] grows out of Professor Amerika's recent art experiments with AI language models and artificial neural nets and is arranged as a series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum. Engaging with his cyberpunk imagination to simultaneously embrace and problematize human-machine collaborations, Professor Amerika’s ACI art and writing project draws from jazz performance, Beatnik poetry, Buddhist thought, and Surrealist "psychic automatism" to suggest that his own artificial creative intelligence operates as a finely tuned remix engine continuously training itself to build on the history of avant-garde art and writing.

Professor Amerika has been invited to conduct live performances with his 3-D avatar-other, the ACI, in various international art, robotics, HCI and humanities conferences. Keynote performances have taken place at the Artificial Creativity conference in Malmö, Sweden, and the Quand l’interface nous échappe: lapsus machinae, autonomisation et défaillances // When the Interface Slips Away : Lapsus Machinae, Autonomization and Bugs conference at the National Archives in Paris.

PORTALS
Hellenic Parliament + NEON former Public Tobacco Factory
59 Artists from 27 countries
Exhibition dates: June 11, 2021—December 31, 2021
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"Portals", a group exhibition organized by @neongreece. A collaboration between the Hellenic Parliament and NEON. Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of Greece’s liberation from the Ottoman Empire. The exhibition is co-curated by @elina_kountouri the director of NEON and Madeleine Grynsztejn, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology
Fri, August 20, 2021–Sun, July 10, 2022
Public reception: Friday, August 20th, 5pm - 7pm
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Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology documents international Indigenous artists’ responses to the impacts of nuclear testing, nuclear accidents, and uranium mining on Native peoples and the environment. The traveling exhibition and catalog give artists a voice to address the long-term effects of these man-made disasters on Indigenous communities in the United States and around the world. Indigenous artists from Australia, Canada, Greenland, Japan, Pacific Islands, and the United States utilize local and tribal knowledge, as well as Indigenous and contemporary art forms as visual strategies for their thought-provoking artworks.

The hardcover, fully illustrated catalog will be published in Fall 2021 and features artist statements, interviews and essays by co-curators, art historians, writers, scientists, and activists who will examine art practices and artists’ concerns more in-depth. Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology is supported by the Ford Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

The video "Breath of Wind" by Anna Tsouhlarakis (Navajo/ Creek/ Greek) is a part of the upcoming exhibition, Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology, opening on August 20, 2021.

Image: Courtesy of Anna Tsouhlarakis