Apr 8th 2021

American Artist: If I Was ****, I Would Die

@ DePaul School of Design

Online

Opening Thursday, April 8th, from 12PM - 1:30PM

In this DePaul School of Design event, Artist explores process, precision, multi-temporality, blue identity, and looting.

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About the Talk
Join us for a talk by multidisciplinary new media artist American Artist, whose work examines Black labor and visibility within networked life. Their practice makes use of video, installation, new media, and writing to explore process, precision, multi-temporality, blue identity, and looting.

About American Artist
AMERICAN ARTIST (b. 1989 Altadena, CA, lives and works in New York) is an artist whose work considers black labor and visibility within networked life. Their practice makes use of video, installation, new media, and writing. Artist is a resident at Red Bull Arts Detroit and a 2018-2019 recipient of the Queens Museum Jerome Foundation Fellowship. They are a former resident of EYEBEAM and completed the Whitney Independent Study program as an artist in 2017. They have exhibited at the Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco; the Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Koenig & Clinton, New York. Their work has been featured in the New York Times, Artforum, and Huffington Post. They have published writing in The New Inquiry and Art21. Artist is a part-time faculty at Parsons School of Design and teaches critical theory at the School for Poetic Computation.

For more information visit https://americanartist.us/

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