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Ekene Ijeoma Has Removed All Bad Design From His Life (Except for Streets) The artist answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.” http://www.curbed.com/2023/02/artist-ekene-ijeoma-interview-21-questions.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part

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What would true diversity sound like?

What would true diversity sound like?

What do the people of the United States sound like? Census language data would give you one kind of answer. But numbers don’t capture all the factors in play—assimilation, the past and present of language, whose voices are prioritized. It’s this gap that multidisciplinary artist Ekene Ijeoma and his group Poetic Justice at the MIT… (more…)

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A Counting

This looks like an amazing project - a ‘voice portait’ of the US, collecting citizens voices to celebrate the many langauges and dialects of the States, recorded via phone calls. 

A Counting invites anyone to call into a hotline and record themselves counting to 100 in any language, algorithmically remixing callers’ voices into tapestries of sound where every number is spoken in a different language, dialect, or accent. Conceived as a series of city-specific iterations, A Counting most recently launched in St. Louis, MO in partnership with The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM).   By “speculating on what a unified society could sound like,” A Counting creates a vocal portrait of intercultural, interlinguistic harmony — a multisensory artwork where people speak to the diversity of their communities in their own voices. 

Ekene Ijeoma is a conceptual artist whose practice encourages new ways of seeing and understanding social issues. Leveraging computational design and conceptual art strategies, Ijeoma translates research and data studies into multimedia and multisensory works of art. In 2019, Ijeoma was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Media Lab at MIT and founded Poetic Justice, a group of critical thinkers and makers who are exploring new forms of justice through art. ​A Counting marks the first major public art project by the group.

The project includes 600 languages spoken in NYC and is travelling from city to city - currently documenting St. Louis. Have a listen and explore here: https://a-counting.us/

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Artist News | Fiscal Sponsorship

Check out two Fiscally Sponsored projects by artists who work at the intersection of arts and social justice.

Folks in and around New York City and Chicago - we encourage you to join NYFA Fiscally Sponsored artists at performances and installations in these two cities this week!

We are delighted to share this interview with Katya Grokhovsky, the project director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial. Join Grokhovsky at a Soft Launch Fundraiser for the Biennial on Sunday, August 4 from 6:00 PM- 8:00 PM at Assembly Room Gallery’s Sidewalk Cellar Space (191 Henry Street, New York, NY 10002), featuring a solo performance by Kathie Halfin.

Ekene Ijeoma’s Deconstructed Anthems will premiere in Chicago at Chicago Arts Club (201 E. Ontario Street, Chicago, IL 60611) in partnership with Illinois Humanities: Envisioning Justice on Friday, August 9 and Saturday, August 10. In this series of music performances and installations, a self-playing piano and/or musicians deconstruct “The Star-Spangled Banner,” repeating it multiple times, removing notes at the rate of mass incarceration in the United States. The performance ends in silence. Deconstructed Anthems recently received a MAP Fund grant and Ijeoma is a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design ‘16.

Are you an artist or a new organization interested in expanding your fundraising capacity through NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship? We accept out-of-cycle reviews year-round. No-fee applications are accepted on a quarterly basis, and our next deadline is September 30. Click here to learn more about the program and to apply. Sign up for our free bi-weekly newsletter, NYFA News, for the latest updates and news about Sponsored Projects and Emerging Organizations.

Image: Kathie Halfin, Live Through It, 2019, Photo Credit: Guido Garaycochea

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Look up, la app que hará que dejes de mirar tu teléfono

Algunos dirían que escribir en el móvil mientras vas andando por la calle es un arte, pero no solo es peligroso, también hace que te pierdas muchos detalles de la ciudad en la que vives. Con el objetivo de hacernos más conscientes de nuestro entorno, Ekene Ijeoma ha creado Look up, una app que consigue que apartes la vista de tu teléfono.

La app te avisa con notificaciones y cambios en la pantalla cada vez que llegas a una intersección, avisándote de que es hora de echar un vistazo al mundo que tienes alrededor.

De momento está disponible solo para Nueva York e incluye un “ranking de energía” para cada intersección, basado en NYC DOT Vision Zero. De esta forma permite identificar los cruces que son más peligrosos para los peatones y avisar con tiempo sobre ellos.

Via | Design Taxi

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Ekene Ijeoma's latest public installation reflects on social inequality to create a place of 'sanctuary at a time of intense hardship and loss' https://bit.ly/3eWhWtv

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Day for Night Unveils Massive Lineup for December Fest

Day for Night Unveils Massive Lineup for December Fest

Day for Night, Houston’s leading art and music festival, are now pleased to offer a limited number of single day general admission tickets for Day for Night 2017.

Single day general admission tickets are $105.00, and will be available starting today Thursday, October 19th at 10AM CT. 2-day General Admission passes and VIP packages are also still available. All tickets are available here.

Day for Night will again be held at POST HTX, the former Barbara Jordan Post Office from December 15-17, 2017. The 1.5 million square foot space will be transformed into a unique stage for artists, musicians, and thinkers. This year, Day for Night will introduce the first annual Day for Night Summit on Friday, December 15, featuring talks with art and technology pioneers Laurie Anderson, Chelsea Manning, Nadya Tolokonnikova (Pussy Riot), and Lauren McCarthy. It has large-scale audiovisual installations, site-specific custom-built structures and symposium that will provide a unique social cultural experience.

The Day for Night 2017 artists are a wide-ranging and diverse group of creators from around the world, from sculptors to coders to engineers: Ryoji Ikeda, Matthew Schreiber, Conditional Studio + Processing Foundation, James Clar, Felicie D’Estienne D’Orves, Kyle McDonald, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Radio Soulwax, VT Pro, The Mill, Hovver, Playmodes, Theodore Fivel, Ekene Ijeoma, Cocolab, Sam Cannon, Vincent Moon and Priscilla Telmon, and Lina Dib.

This year’s lineup will showcase leading musicians including Nine Inch Nails, Thom Yorke, Solange, Justice, St Vincent, Tyler, The Creator, James Blake, Pretty Lights, Jamie XX, Phantogram, Pussy Riot, The Jesus Lizard, Laurie Anderson, REZZ, Nina Kraviz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Cashmere Cat, Cardi B, Perfume Genius, Sky Ferreira, Gas, En Vogue, Lil B, Of Montreal performing Hissing Fauna You Are The Destroyer, Venetian Snares X Daniel Lanois, Princess Nokia, Kimbra, Mount Kimbie, Corbin, Shlohmo, The Album Leaf, G Jones, Forest Swords, Babyfather, Dj Tennis, Tim Hecker, Shabazz Palaces, Andy Stott, Jessy Lanza, Jlin, Priests, Bjarki, Roni Size, Demdike Stare, Saro, Rabit x House of Kenzo, B L A C K I E, Marcus Marr, Hoodcelebrityy, Faten Kanaan, True American, Pearl Crush, Deep Cuts, Tyler Barber, N N O A, Santa Muerte, Kona Fm, Anitra, Narcons, Acid Jeep, XLX, Miguel Flaco, Collin Hedrick, Saul Williams, BOOTS, and Jenny Hval. Complete line-up and more information here.

https://tunecollective.com/2017/10/24/day-for-night-houston/

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By BY SOPHIE HAIGNEY from Arts in the New York Times-https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/arts/design/a-counting.html?partner=IFTTT The artist Ekene Ijeoma has been working on “A Counting,” an art project involving numbers and language, for more than a year. Now, a sign language edition has begun. A Portrait of U.S. Linguistic Diversity, in Sound and Sign New York Times

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Lecture: Isabella Doelwijt

Tuesday 2-2-20

‘'Design as a Social Act’’

Video’s of Ekene Ijeoma installations

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Introducing | NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program Recipients and Finalists

NYFA has awarded $661,000 to 98 New York State artists working in the categories of Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design, Choreography, Music/Sound, Photography, and Playwriting/Screenwriting.

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced the recipients and finalists of the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program, which it has administered for the past 33 years with leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). The organization has awarded a total of $661,000 to 98 artists (including three collaborations) whose ages range from 25-76 years throughout New York State in the following disciplines: Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design, Choreography, Music/Sound, Photography, and Playwriting/Screenwriting. Fifteen finalists, who do not receive a cash award but benefit from a range of other NYFA services, were also announced. A complete list of the Fellows and Finalists follows. 

The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program makes unrestricted cash grants of $7,000 to artists working in 15 disciplines, awarding five per year on a triennial basis. The program is highly competitive, and this year’s recipients and finalists were selected by discipline-specific peer panels from an applicant pool of 2,542. Since it was launched in 1985, the program has awarded over $31 million to more than 5,000 artists. This year, thanks to the generous support of photography nonprofit Joy of Giving Something, NYFA was able to award an additional five Fellowships in Photography, which has the largest application pool of any Fellowship category.

“We are grateful to NYSCA for this annual opportunity to provide nearly 100 artists from New York State with unrestricted cash grants,” said Michael L. Royce, Executive Director, NYFA. “What’s most exciting is that the Fellowship impacts artists of all disciplines and career stages and that these artists are being recognized by a jury of their peers. Beyond the financial aspect, it empowers them to keep creating and exploring new possibilities in their work.”

New York State Council on the Arts Executive Director Mara Manus described how the program makes New York communities more vibrant: “The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship recognizes that artists of all disciplines, backgrounds, ages, and career stages make vital contributions to New York’s creative culture. Over the past 33 years, the Artist Fellowship has been a launching pad and a critical source of support for artists whose work helps build healthy communities in all regions of the state.”

On receiving a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Playwriting/Screenwriting, Brooklyn-based Nabil Viñas said: “It is a deeply moving honor to be recognized by NYSCA/NYFA. I took up screenwriting out of necessity, as it became clear that the voices and stories from my life would not appear in works by others. This fellowship tells me our stories matter, and that my voice is worth hearing.”

For Ben Altman, a Fellow in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design from Danby, NY, the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship represents another facet of support from NYFA: “NYFA has informed my artistic practice throughout my 12 years in Upstate New York, providing professional development, fiscal sponsorship, grant application support, workshops, critique, and timely advice. To be awarded a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is as much a tribute to those inputs as it is an important and very welcome recognition of the work NYFA’s support has helped me to produce.”

To Veena Chandra, a Fellow in Music/Sound from Latham, NY, the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship empowers her to “continue to create, promote, and preserve” musical tradition. “I feel blessed to have been playing Indian sitar music for the last 63 years. I am so grateful to my father, who created an environment for me to learn this beautiful music and taught me from the very beginning of my life. To be recognized for my work in performing and preserving Indian Classical music means a lot to me, especially at this point in my career,” she noted.

Fellowship Recipients, Finalists, and Panelists by Discipline and County of Residence:

Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design Fellows

Ben Altman (Tompkins) Kenseth Armstead (Kings) Shimon Attie (New York) Sonya Blesofsky (Kings) Yeju Choi and Chat Travieso - Yeju & Chat (Kings) * Blane De St. Croix (Kings) Sun Young Kang (Erie) Kyung-jin Kim  (Queens) Ming-Jer Kuo (Queens)*** Lindsay Packer (Kings) Christopher Robbins (Westchester) Jeffrey Williams (Kings)       

Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design Finalists      

Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels (Kings) Justin Brice Guariglia (Kings) Pascale Sablan (New York)    

Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design Panelists    

Ann Reichlin (Tompkins) Ekene Ijeoma (Kings) Nina Cooke John (New York) Victoria Palermo (Warren)      

Choreography Fellows

Ephrat "Bounce" Asherie (New York) Justina Grayman (Queens)**** GREYZONE (Kings) Dan Hurlin (New York) Jaamil Olawale Kosoko (Kings) Shamel Pitts (Kings) Melinda Ring (New York) Same As Sister (Queens)* Rebeca Tomas (Westchester) Kelly Todd (Kings) Donna Uchizono (New York) Vangeline (Kings) Adia Tamar Whitaker (Kings)        

Choreography Finalists      

Parijat Desai (New York) DELIRIOUS Dances/Edisa Weeks (Kings) Netta Yerushalmy (New York)        

Choreography Panelists    

Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp (Monroe) Robin Collen (St. Lawrence) Trebien Pollard (Erie) Marie Poncé (New York) Kota Yamazaki (Kings)  

Music/Sound Fellows

ALMA (Kings)* Lora-Faye Åshuvud (Queens) Newman Taylor Baker (New York) Bob Bellerue (Kings) Leila Bordreuil (Kings) Vienna Carroll (New York) Veena Chandra (Albany) David First (Kings) Micah Frank (Kings) Kate Gentile (Kings) Michael Harrison (Westchester) JSWISS (Kings) Liz Phillips (Queens) Kenneth Kirschner (Kings) Elliott Sharp (New York) Jen Shyu (Kings) Ann Warde (Tompkins) Eric Wubbels (Queens)    

Music/Sound Finalists      

Lily Henley (Kings) Earl Howard (Queens) Tobaron Waxman (New York)    

Music/Sound Panelists    

Toni Blackman (Kings) Sarah Hennies (Tompkins) John Morton (Rockland) Margaret Anne Schedel (Suffolk) Elio Villafranca (New York)        

Photography Fellows

Manal Abu-Shaheen (Queens) Yasser Aggour (Kings) Aneta Bartos (New York) Lucas Blalock (Kings) Matthew Conradt (Kings) Debi Cornwall  (Kings) Robin Crookall (Kings) Tim Davis (Dutchess)****** Eli Durst (Queens) Nona Faustine (Kings) Jonathan Gardenhire  (Kings) Rachel Granofsky (Kings)***** Carlie Guevara (Queens) Gail Albert-Halaban (New York) Daesha Devón Harris (Saratoga)****** Gillian Laub (New York) Jiatong Lu (Kings)****** Diana Markosian (Kings) Rehan Miskci (New York) Rachelle Mozman Solano (Kings) Karina Aguilera Skvirsky (New York) Erin O'Keefe (New York) Paul Raphaelson (Kings) Victor Rivera (Onondaga)****** Jahi Lateef Sabater (Kings) Nadia Sablin (Kings) Derick Whitson (New York) Letha Wilson (Columbia)****** Alex Yudzon (Kings)        

Photography Finalists      

Mike Crane (Kings) Julianne Nash (Kings) Dana Stirling (Queens)

Photography Panelists    

Nydia Blas (Tompkins) Carmen Lizardo (Hudson) Lida Suchy (Onondaga) Sinan Tuncay (Kings) Penelope Umbrico (Kings)

Playwriting/Screenwriting Fellows

Rae Binstock (Kings) Benedict Campbell (Bronx) Sol Crespo (Bronx)**** Amy Evans (Kings) Stephanie Fleischmann (Columbia) Robin Fusco (Queens) Myla Goldberg (Kings) Ryan J. Haddad (New York) Susan Kathryn Hefti (New York) Holly Hepp-Galvan (Queens) Timothy Huang (New York) Fedna Jacquet (New York) Nicole Shawan Junior (Kings)** Serena Kuo (Kings) Kal Mansoor (Kings) Michael Mejias (Kings) Joey Merlo (New York) Rehana Lew Mirza (Kings) Joél Pérez (New York) Keil Troisi (Kings) Nabil Viñas (New York) Craig T. Williams (New York)    

Playwriting/Screenwriting Finalists      

Iquo B. Essien (Kings) Becca Roth (Kings) Sheri Wilner (New York)        

Playwriting/Screenwriting Panelists    

Sheila Curran Bernard (Albany) Clarence Coo (New York) Randall Dottin (New York) David Ebeltoft (Steuben) Julie Casper Roth (Albany) 

* Collaborative artists ** Geri Ashur Screenwriting Award *** Joanne Y. Chen Taiwanese American Artist Fellow **** Gregory Millard Fellows made with the support of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; Gregory Millard Fellowships are awarded annually to New York City residents chosen in several categories. The award was established by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in 1984 in memory of poet and playwright Gregory Millard, who served as Assistant Commissioner of Cultural Affairs from 1978 until his death in 1984 and championed the causes of individual artists. ***** Deutsche Bank Fellow ******Joy of Giving Something Fellow

Funding Support

NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships are administered with leadership support from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Major funding is also provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA). Additional funding is provided by Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, ​Taiwanese American Arts Council​, The Joy of Giving Something Inc., and individual donors.

Find out more about the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program, a $7,000 unrestricted cash grant awarded to individual artists living and working in the state of New York. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for more news and events from NYFA. To receive more artist news updates, sign up for our bi-weekly newsletter, NYFA News.

Images from Top: Lindsay Packer (Fellow in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design ’19), False Fold, 2019, colored light and found objects, Photo Credit: Lindsay Packer; Donna Uchizono (Fellow in Choreography ’19), March Under an Empty Reign (Sextet), 2018, performers Natalie Green and Aja Carthon, Photo Credit: Ian Douglas; Eli Durst (Fellow in Photography ’19), Bread (Cross), 2017, archival pigment print; Veena Chandra (Fellow in Music/Sound ’19), Image Credit: MARS Fotographi

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Ekene Ijeoma makes urgent art in the space between feeling and fact http://bit.ly/2FY3qAM

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When Americans redesigned the American flag

Almost 60 years ago, the United States government changed the design of its flag for the last time, adding a 49th and then a 50th star for Alaska and Hawaii. The final design the Eisenhower administration ran up the flagpole on July 4th, 1960 was practical; it simply shifted from regular lines of stars to staggered rows. It was also the least imaginative option, since, for years before the new flag was chosen, Americans had been submitting their own–completely unsolicited–ideas for a new flag to the federal government.

Today, it’s a curious footnote to American history: the fact that more than 3,000 Americans across the country had–of their own volition–sent in their own designs for the new flag, as the Eisenhower government prepared to select a new flag design to accommodate the two new stars in the late 1950s.

Sometimes people sent in actual flags with their proposed changes. One design, by one Harold Brown of Los Angeles, replaced the stars with the emblem of the then-nascent United Nations. Other times they sent in hand-made mock-ups. “This was an especially popular project for elementary school children who expressed their ideas with construction paper, crayons, tempera paint, and tiny stick-on stars,” the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library notes. Some incorporated slogans, like “From the state that is large, to the one that is small, all fifty offer peace and goodwill to one and all,” or the Latin “Sine Metu,” or “without fear.” Other designs reflected the strong iconography of the era, like Washington, D.C.’s J. Osowoski, who proposed putting the stars against a blue continent undergirded by red stripes.

[Photo: Atelier Editions]

Many of the designs saw the light of day for the first time in 2016, when the publisher Atelier Éditions put out a large-format book of the submissions called Old Glory. “Officially no competition for the flag’s design then was ever enacted by the Eisenhower administration, although of course such patriotic flag-making was wholly encouraged, [except by] many irate American flag manufacturers, who now possessed thousands of obsolete 48- and 49-starred American flags,” Atelier Éditions’ Kingston Trinder told Co.Design at the time.

This week, Atelier Éditions announced a fundraiser for the book through July, when 20% of proceeds will go to the American Civil Liberties Union.

[Photo: Atelier Editions]

The designs can feel almost transgressive to our eyes, partially because it’s been a generation since the flag changed at all and partially because of the way the flag is wielded by political groups today. Especially this year, it can be hard to know how to think about American symbols like the flag–the perceived disrespect of which has become a favorite grievance of the current administration (and the NFL). How do you celebrate independence on a day when a sitting president rails against core constitutional tenets? What does it mean to be a proud American, when the definition of American is being narrowly restricted and policed in increasingly arbitrary ways at the behest of a ruling political party? The artist Ekene Ijeoma, writing in the Architect’s Newspaper this week, suggests getting more engaged with American symbols and how we use them. “It’s time to repurpose some of these flag codes to create more nationwide visibility, solidarity, and accountability for issues like police brutality or, furthermore, reimagine American symbols like the flag,” he concludes.

These decades-old flags, cobbled together by grade-schoolers and engaged citizens during an era when American democracy was being reaffirmed after World War II, look almost naive from 2018. Yet they’re also a welcome reminder that participation–and creative action–are their own tools.

When Americans redesigned the American flag published first on https://petrotekb.tumblr.com/