Visible or invisible . . . ? An interactive game by Dorothy Santos
Category: Contemporary Projects
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
Diné COVID PSA
A graphic public-service announcement for the Diné (Navajo) Nation and beyond, by artist, physician, and community organizer Chip Thomas
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
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
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
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
Palestine, TX: A Parafiction
Noah Simblist presents a parafictional story about a small American town and the frontier culture of manifest destiny
Shortest Stories: a book in progress
Maria Porges presents Shortest Stories, an ongoing series that joins collage from found material with abbreviated fiction that functions in dialogue with the images
Making & Being
The collective BFAMFAPhD presents the Making and Being Card Game, a pedagogical tool created for Art Journal Open that encourages students to approach their projects holistically, looking at their own learning goals and the life and death of their projects in relation to their social and emotional needs
Terra Forma: disaster, recovery, and aesthetics of a tsunami coast
Art Journal Open presents Terra Forma, an immersive, interactive digital project and scholarly text by Andrew Yang. Following a 2017 trip to the Sanriku coast of Japan, Yang traces the area’s recovery and rebuilding efforts after the devastation of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Yang explores the terraforming of the coast, “a kind of garden-making on a planetary scale,” pressuring the categories of “natural” and “man-made” in our landscapes
Citation Bombing: Tactical and Symbolic Subversion of Academic Metrification
Zach Kaiser presents his app CitationBomb, as well as his theory and practice of scrambling and hacking the contemporary metrics of academic success. In “overflowing the commodity market for citations,” Kaiser questions the value systems we assign to knowledge production and consumption