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
The Cost of Precarity: Contingent Academic Labor in the Gig Economy
Kristen Galvin and Christina M. Spiker discuss the adjunctification of the academy and what has been sacrificed by this new paradigm of the gig economy
Social Histories: An Inquiry from the Integrated Arts Research Initiative
Joey Orr and Imani Wadud present their reflections on ongoing transdisciplinary programming, exhibition work, learning, and social action through the Integrated Arts Research Initiative at the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
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
Take This Hammer (After Leadbelly): Extended Version
Margo Handwerker and Richard Saxton of the collective M12 Studio offer observations and critiques of the process of applying for and reporting on grants in the United States
In Tehran: A Conversation with Iranian Gallerists
This roundtable conversation among Iranian gallerists, available in English and in Persian, explores the politics and particularities of gallery ownership in Tehran
At Home in the World: The FotoFest 2018 Biennial of Indian Photography
Sophia Powers reviews the 2018 exhibition India/Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art, and its accompanying catalogue by the same name
Beyond Survival in Art and Art History: Fifteen Futures Already Alive
Amy K. Hamlin offers fifteen propositions for “thinking otherwise”—a text that serves as a kind of imaginary syllabus asking what the future of art history might look like
Palestine, TX: A Parafiction
Noah Simblist presents a parafictional story about a small American town and the frontier culture of manifest destiny
Creating Good-Enough Containers: Reflections on Queerness in Community-Based Museum Education
Artist and museum educator Kerry Downey reflects on making space for queerness within and outside of institutions through participatory art making
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