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Category: Contemporary Projects

Color video still of performer Monique Jenkinson performing as her drag persona, Fauxnique. She wears heavy makeup, devouring an image of a hand wearing a large bracelet that appears to have been cut from a fashion magazine; magazine cutouts of other body parts are stuck to her forehead.

Diva Maw

Drag performer Fauxnique exalts in humanity, vulnerability, and decay

By Monique Jenkinson on October 29th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects artandthenovelcoronavirus, drag, fauxnique, feminism, feministart, videoart
One banner says "Let Us Vote!" in bold, colorful neon letters on a black background; next to it, another banner says "The Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t" in neon green on black

Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t

Exposing voter suppression through performance and installation art

By Aram Han Sifuentes on October 1st, 2020 in Contemporary Projects AramHanSifuentes, disenfrancisement, letusvote, officialunofficialvotingstation, voting, votingforall, votingforallwholegallycant
Many masked people wearing red stare at the sky, many with their phones raised to take pictures

The Masked Island

Singapore’s technocracy faces COVID-19

By John Lee on September 10th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects artandthenovelcoronavirus, covid, photoessay, photography, Singapore
A 3-minute, full-color digital animation that collages a series of images produced by the artist to represent wartime conflict

Projections From The Third Half [Cloud Storm]

Zeina Barakeh deconstructs conflict through animation and collage

By Zeina Barakeh on August 6th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects cloudstorm, homelandinsecurity, middleeasternartists, narrativesofwar, palestinianart, polarization, politicalart
A text-based, interactive, choose-your-own-adventure game built on the Twine platform

Domain Errors

Visible or invisible . . . ? An interactive game by Dorothy Santos

By Dorothy R. Santos on July 24th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects, From Art Journal artandvideogames, biosurveillance, biotech, fantasy, gender, race, science fiction
Stanford Express Care nurse Anna Chico, her head and body hidden behind layers of protective gear, wears a smiling portrait affixed over her heart so that people arriving at the COVID-19 testing clinic can see an image of her face

Facing Social Practice: Mary Beth Heffernan in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson

The PPE Portrait Project builds trust between patients and health-care workers during COVID-19

By Julia Bryan-Wilson and Mary Beth Heffernan on June 30th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects, Conversations artandthenovelcoronavirus, covid, PPEPortrait, PPEPortraitProject

Diné COVID PSA

A graphic public-service announcement for the Diné (Navajo) Nation and beyond, by artist, physician, and community organizer Chip Thomas

By Chip Thomas on April 24th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects artandthenovelcoronavirus, chipthomas, covid, diné, jetsonorama, navajo, navajohopisolidarity, painteddesertproject, printouts, psa, publichealth, ryanpinto, shibuddy

Field_Notes: Amalgams at Field_Notes

In the final entry in a series of contributions, Hannah Star Rogers gathers reflections from Alice Smits and Judith van der Elst on the 2018 convening of the Helsinki-based Bioart Society

By AJ Open on July 23rd, 2019 in Contemporary Projects, News + Notes BioartSociety

Processing and Designing Hyperacusis and Tinnitus

Artist Luca M. Damiani reflects on his creative responses to and interpretations of the hearing conditions tinnitus and hyperacusis

By Luca M. Damiani on June 25th, 2019 in Contemporary Projects

Field_Notes: The Technology of Divination

In the second entry in a series of contributions, Hannah Star Rogers convenes reflections from Sam Nightingale and Lisa Swanstrom on the 2018 convening of the Helsinki-based Bioart Society

By AJ Open on May 9th, 2019 in Contemporary Projects, News + Notes BioartSociety

Field_Notes: Expanding the Possibilities of Bioart

In the first entry in a series of contributions, Hannah Star Rogers convenes reflections from Leena Valkeapää, Saara Hannula, and Erich Berger on the 2018 convening of the Helsinki-based Bioart Society

By AJ Open on April 8th, 2019 in Contemporary Projects, News + Notes BioartSociety

Palestine, TX: A Parafiction

Noah Simblist presents a parafictional story about a small American town and the frontier culture of manifest destiny

By Noah Simblist on February 11th, 2019 in Contemporary Projects

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