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Artist Research (5/8) - Gregory Halpern

Gregory Halpern is an independent American photographer and professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. While he was still a student of Havard, Halpern created a study of working conditions for the university’s janitorial staff, which resulted in a successful bid for the minimum wage and even being published as a book called Harvard Works Because We Do (2003). He has published eight monographs of work, was made the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his photographs have been featured in many public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Halpern is known for his intuitive style of documentary photography that draws attention to the harsh social realities along with the strangeness of everyday life. This approach led him to photograph things such as life in post-industrial towns of the American Rust Belt and even people or places in the Los Angeles area. One of his monographs, ZZYZX, which won Photobook of the Year at the 2016 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation Photobook Award, stands as his most iconic work, a masterful piece of storytelling that demonstrates the artistry for which he is renowned. In creating this collection of works, Halpern was drawn to the beautiful yet toxic atmosphere of Los Angeles.

References:

https://www.all-about-photo.com/photographers/photographer/1240/gregory-halpern

https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/gregory-halpern/

https://independent-photo.com/news/gregory-halpern-zzyzx/

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Artist Research #5: Danny Lyon

Introduction/Background: 

Danny Lyon is an American born photographer and filmmaker born on March 16, 1942 and raised in New York. Lyon’s work is primarily influenced and inspired by his Jewish identity, especially since he grew up around the time of World War II. He first got into photography when he hitchhiked to Cairo, Illinois during the summer of 1962. He then went to college at the University of Chicago in 1963 where he received a BA in history. During his time at the University he was hired as a photographer at the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Under this committee, Lyon spent two years photographing activists of SNCC fighting against racial violence and discrimination. These photos and many others were very influential in that they promoted change and improvement in society. Thanks to him, “SNCC began to develop its public image” (Sncc digital, people).  Lyon even helped young teenage girls, deprived of food and water, escape from jail through his bravery of secretly taking photos of them. It sounds a little creepy, but his intentions were pure and for the right cause. Danny Lyon takes a very personal approach to his photographic work by participating in the lives of his subjects. In his older work, Lyon used to purposely withhold showcasing his personality in his photos because he wanted his subjects to shine through. But now he acquires first hand knowledge of the experiences that the subject encounters, which gives his work a personal touch to them. The subjects of his photographic work typically, “deviate from societal norms, yet he is dedicated to communicating their character and sensibility honestly, sympathetically, and nonjudgmentally” (icp, biography). 

Notable works: 

His photobook The Bikeriders (1968) is a good example of what his main focus in photography is; civil rights issues. This project was seen as one of the most defining works of the 1960s and also gave younger photographers a voice to look up to that was their age. This book depicts the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club’s first hand stories and personalities. Lyon was personally involved in the Outlaws at one point in his life, so he wanted to share about himself while also speaking on issues about how America views and treats those on the outskirts of society. He does this by offering a “gritty yet humane perspective” of these individuals. 

Awards/Nominations: 

Danny Lyon has won a total of 6 awards in his lifetime. These include the following: 

1969: Guggenheim Fellowship from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

1978: Guggenheim Fellowship from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

1980s: Fellowship in Film making from the Rockefeller Foundation[citation needed]

2011: Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism, Missouri School of Journalism, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

2015: Lucie Awards, "Achievement in Documentary" category

2022: Induction into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum.

Personal thoughts: 

From researching Lyon, I have really come to respect him and his work and what it means. He has done a lot of good for society through his photographs, which I think makes him one of the best photographers. If I have learned one thing from this class, it’s that photography tells a story and communicates a message meant to move and challenge viewers' ways of thinking. It’s more than just showing a pretty flower or a cute dog, but taking photos in a way that is moving and meaningful. It is evident that Lyon takes photos in that way. Even through making projects that focus on himself, he is able to point out and challenge ideas of overarching problems in society. I can see myself using his influence to create captivating interior spaces in the future. Not only that but he has influenced me to think critically about the sort of spaces I will be creating. I want to start thinking about the purpose I will have for designing interiors, and what I will do to make them personal to me in a way that’s also personal to the client. 

Works Cited: 

https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/danny-lyon?all/all/all/all/0

https://snccdigital.org/people/danny-lyon/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Lyon

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Bikeriders.html?id=VWqCngEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description

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SDL - Photographer Research; Bryan Schutmaat

Photographer Bryan Schutmaat is based in Texas, and both domestically and internationally, his work has been frequently exhibited and published. Among the many honors he has received are the Daylight Photo Award, the Center's Gallerist Choice Award, and the Aperture Portfolio Prize. An Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer's Fellowship was awarded to Bryan in 2016. In 2014, he was also named one of PDN's 30 new photographers to watch.

The Silas Finch Foundation published his debut monograph, Grays the Mountain Sends, in 2013 to widespread praise from critics around the world. It was shortlisted for the Aperture/Paris Photo First Book Award, won the photobook category in the New York Photo Awards, and was named one of the finest photobooks of 2013 by The Washington Post and many other publications.

About Grays the Mountain Sends: This project explores the lives of working people who live in small mountain towns and mining settlements in the American West by combining portraits, landscapes, and still lives in a sequence of images. Using a large format view camera and drawing inspiration from Richard Hugo's poetry, his goal has been to convey the experiences of people he's met in environments that evoke strong feelings in me while also making subtle narrative suggestions. This piece of work is ultimately a study on landscapes, small town life, and, more importantly, the interior landscapes that define ordinary men.

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The Fellowship : Beginning of the End (Seoul)

FEVER : DEAR DIARY

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Eugene Richards: In This Brief Life PhotoBook from DEVELOP Tube on Vimeo.

"In This Brief Life" is a collection of some fifty years of photographs by Eugene Richards, from his earliest pictures made of sharecropper life in the Arkansas Delta throughout his lifetime as a photographer. With your help and support of the Kickstarter campaign, he’ll produce a book that speaks of the wonder and diversity of life, of sorrow and exaltation, of war and peace, of today and yesterday. This project will only be funded if it reaches its goal by Wed, November 30 2022 12:00 AM EST. Learn more about the project, its rewards, and lend support at kickstarter.com/projects/eugenerichards/in-this-brief-life

Eugene Richards is a photographer, writer, and documentary filmmaker who has authored seventeen books, the most recent being "The Run-On of Time" (Nelson-Atkins Museum, 2017), a career retrospective in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the George Eastman museum, and "the day I was born" (Many Voices Press, 2020), the story of six men and women who are living in the memory-laden Mississippi Delta of Arkansas. Among numerous honors, Richards has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for coverage of the disadvantaged.

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DIANA MARKOSIAN - QUINCE: COMING OF AGE IN CUBA Miss Rosen for Magnum Photos

After being awarded the 2018 Elliot Erwitt Fellowship Grant to travel to Cuba for one month, Diana Markosian set forth to explore the exquisite moment of transformation, as a girl becomes a woman in society, and the way this experience informs the feminine identity. The ensuing project, Quince, which is made up of portraits and imagery from locally made magazines, will be shown at Paris Photo, in the Grand Palais, from November 8-11.

“A lot of my work is about the past and memory. It is less about going somewhere and more about finding my way into that country and my understanding of what that country represents for me,” the Armenian-American artist explains.

Born in Moscow in 1989, Markosian’s early years were shaped by living through the total collapse of the Soviet Union. She discovered an immediate and intimate parallel between her childhood experiences and the lives of those she encountered during her visit, “The 90s in Cuba was a time that is referred to as the ‘special period’ — a moment when the country, which was dependent on the Soviet Union, was in total economic collapse. It’s something I experienced first hand living in Moscow and Yerevan as a child.”

In sharing these stories, Markosian felt a connection to the lives of those she met in Cuba, and realized the story she was searching for could be found deeper in the countryside. She began traveling outside of Havana, going from town to town, until she arrived in Matanzas, famed as the birthplace of the Afro-Cuban music and dance traditions of danzón and rumba.

Here, she met a few girls and their parents, who struck up a conversation by showing Markosian a photobook that was made for their daughter’s quinceañera, a Latin American tradition celebrating a girl’s 15th birthday. As Markosian leafed through the book, she became intrigued.

Read the Full Story at Magnum Photos

Top: Diana Markosian Girls stand outside their friend’s quinceañera venue as they wait for their big entrance © Diana Markosian | Magnum Photos

Middle: Diana Markosian Teens gather in the courtyard of a church as they prepare for their friend’s quinceañera festivities © Diana Markosian | Magnum Photos

Bottom: Diana Markosian A girl rides around her neighbourhood in a pink 1950s convertible as her community gathers to celebrate her 15th birthday © Diana Markosian | Magnum Photos

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LA / In-Between

Tyler Calkin-Low, Small Gesture 18 (hug), ABS 3D Print, 12”x7”x6”, 2019

In-Between curated by Liz Nurenberg May 28 – June 19, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday May 28, 7-10pm

“And the in-between is the realm of the life of lines.”

“Turning to the atmosphere, we have seen how the air we breathe is of the in-between: it does not

lie between us but is the very medium in which our lives are mixed and stirred.” - Tim Ingold in The Life of Lines,

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles is proud to present In-Between, a group exhibition featuring Tyler Calkin-Low, Marjan Hermozi, Emma Kemp, Carmen Mardónez, Soyoung Shin and Anthony Bodlović.

Tyler Calkin-Low is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who examines social habits and anxieties through play and improvisation. His multi-modal practice uses objects, performance, video, augmented and virtual reality, machine learning, and motion capture, often in recursive combination. Responding to current developments in consumer technologies, and most recently to pandemic tech practices, he constructs interactive and immersive propositions for interpersonal experience.

His work has been exhibited and performed in art and educational institutions around the world, including in Venice; Beijing; Kathmandu; Gimpo, South Korea; Guadalajara, Mexico; London; Berlin; New York City; and Los Angeles. He received his MFA in Art and Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts and is currently an Assistant Professor and Head of Digital Media at the University of Nevada, Reno where he teaches critical theory and experimental practices in video, immersive and interactive media, and digital fabrication.

Marjan Hermozi was born to an Iranian family in Tehran. Her father and uncle were in the advertising industry and in her early life she grew up in a very busy house that was like an around- the-clock ad agency. This very free and creative environment gave Marjan her initial love and passion for making art and storytelling. In 1969 her family sent her to Switzerland and then to England where she went to boarding school and art school. Marjan received her MFA from Slade School of Fine Arts (UK), and her BFA (honors) from the university of North London (UK) and completed her foundation studies at Chelsea School of Art (UK). She studied with some of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st century. She is an international artist and her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in several countries including Japan, Korea, England, Germany and the USA. Recent gallery shows include Royal Academy of Art, PØST, Track 16, CSUN gallery, Torrance Art Museum and others.

Marjan Hormozi is the recipient of several awards and fellowships including the Cheltenham fellowship (UK), Artist in Residence at the Stroud Museum (UK), Artist in Residence at the University of North London (UK) and Visiting Lecture at Slade School of Fine Arts (UK). Her work has appeared in several publications and is included in private collections nationally and internationally. Since 1986 Marjan Hormozi has served educational institutions in the United Kingdom and the United States as a teacher, including lead faculty and program Director in foundation Studies. Marjan Hormozi is a recognized expert in field of Figurative Art. She has designed and created drawing, painting and foundation curriculum for several colleges.

Professor Hormozi is currently the Area Head for ‘Drawing Form’ and ‘Drawing Studio’ at Otis College of Art and Design and teaches Drawing and Painting at Otis College of Art and Design and California Institute of the Arts, (CalArts). She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Emma Kemp is a writer and artist concerned with transdisciplinary research practices. She is co- founder of studio collaborative BAKERSFIELD. Her book, Blue Pool: Cecelia, in collaboration with photographer JoAnn Walters and published by Image Text Ithaca, was shortlisted for the Aperture Photobook Awards 2018. She is a recipient of the Al Larvick Conservation Fund grant for an archival documentary project called Barbara. Emma teaches at Otis College of Art & Design and is the Program Coordinator for CalArts’ Summer Institute Studio Residency.

Carmen Mardónez (Santiago of Chile, 1988) is a Chilean textile artist living in Los Angeles since 2017. Her artwork seeks to radically reimagine intimate spaces of memories, dreams, and discovery, exploring variations around traditional embroidery by combining oversized formats, textile sculpture and the recovery of textile waste.

Carmen studied History and Arts in the Catholic University of Chile, a master’s degree in Community Psychology at the University of Chile, and has training on art therapy and traditional knitting on horsehair. Her artwork has been exhibited in Baik+Khneysser, Brea Gallery and SoLa Gallery, among others, and her practice has been supported by scholarships and grants from “All She Makes”, “Repaint History”, and “Not Real Art”. Most recently, Carmen has completed art residencies at Helms Design Center and Art at the Blue Roof.

Soyoung Shin and Anthony Bodlović are artists residing in Los Angeles who spend their days researching human interactions through their lenses of art therapy, spirituality, engineering, fashion design, and education. Their collaborative performances are often fueled by their magical thinking and their shared experiences of being raised by immigrants. Searching for meaning in bouncy castles and reality TV, the two investigate human experiences through parody and play, recreating an alternative version of Americana and their Mother’s Land to understand where we came from, and where we are going.

photos by Gemma Lopez

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Mark Steinmetz

Mark Christopher Steinmetz Is an American Photographer Born in Manhattan, New York City on March 31, 1961. He had gone to study photography in Yale School of art and left after one semester and eventually lived in Athens, Georgia where he continues his work. The subject of his work is of people who were caught in the middle of their ordinary lives. 

A book that shows his prime work is 'Summertime' a book that presents black and white photos of children who lived in Boston, New England, and Chicago in 1984 and 1991. The photos show images of children and young adults relaxing in the world around them during their summer free time. Many of them are hanging out near their homes, cars, or gathering their summer snacks. They are also curled up and leaning their heads on their hands or knees as if they were struggling to be comfortable in the summer heat. However, the photos also depict images of the kids going out on a date, or having fun in the water, or having conversations with each other under the sun. Overall, these photos show a time when kids are just enjoying the liberty to not have to be anywhere or doing anything. The rest of his work consists of the same thing, of people or places that are in the middle of their mundane lives. These photos are of highways, restaurant workers, sports fields, or people sitting on park benches. Mark Steinmetz has published many photos and photobooks along with this collection. He has also won the Guggenheim Fellowship award from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1994.

The emotion from these photos shows the lethargy and freedom children have during the summer time. The children look bored and uninterested, but many adults can feel a sense of nostalgia from these images. These children have the time to be out of school and do nothing, usually hanging out with their friends or near open spaces usually doing nothing and conserving their energy. I like these photos because of the relaxing tone they possess.

About — Mark Steinmetz 

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Deborah Willis 

Deborah Willis, Untitled, 2010 (top photo)

Cover and Spread from Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968 (Random House, 1968). (bottom photo)

The influential curator and photographer Deborah Willis has pioneered with her work that have been featured at the Smithsonian Institution museums. She is a professor at the arts and sciences at NYU Tisch school where she teaches students on ethnicity, arts, photography, visual culture, and the photographic history of slavery and emancipation. She’s an author, has received multiple fellowships, and her work has won a NAACP. She believes photography can be transformative not only for the viewer but for the photographer as well. 

https://aperture.org/editorial/why-deborah-willis-thinks-the-photobook-can-be-transformative/

https://www.thephoblographer.com/2021/02/16/7-legendary-black-photographers-we-want-to-show-love-for/

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Artist Research #2: Robert Frank

Introduction/Background:

Robert Frank was an American filmmaker and photographer born in Switzerland in 1924 and died in 2019. He began to take interest in photography early on in life and became an apprentice under several photographers as a teenager. Later on, he was able to find work as a commercial photographer in 1947. This led him to leave Zurich where he lived all his life, and move to America. Living in a country that wasn’t his own, “Frank assumed the unique position of an outsider and voyeur who unobtrusively captured the tensions of the geographic, economic, racial, and religious diversity of the US” (Moma, intro). By 1973, his photographs expressed a more personal and filmic sensibility. He specifically captured people in the difficulties of daily life. Frank once explained, “There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment” (artnet, artworks). 

Notable works: 

The Americans was a photobook that Robert Frank released in France, 1959. This work caused a revolution among photographers and documentarians. It is one of the most influential photo books published of all time. The Americans had influence for many reasons. One reason for this is that it challenged the documentary tradition which previously had been viewed as something transparent and having no thoughts, emotions, or a viewpoint. However, Frank broke these rules by documenting more of the darker side of America which hadn’t been shown before. This work was also influential because it challenged the aesthetic of photography. During the 1950’s, photography maintained the aesthetic of “clean, well-exposed, and sharp photos” (Eric Kim, Intro).  Frank’s photographs, on the other hand, looked the complete opposite from the standards of how the aesthetic should look like. Critics saw his prints as “flawed by meaningless blur grain, muddy exposure, drunken horizons, and general sloppiness” (Eric Kim, Intro). His photos caused many to think that he had contempt for “quality work” and no discipline in technique. However, Frank learned that in order for his photographs to be effective and create an emotional response, he needed to experiment with different techniques, meaning that some “rules” were going to get broken. 

Awards/Nominations:

Robert Frank has won a total of four awards. These include the following: 

1955: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

1996: Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography from the Hasselblad Foundation.

2002: Edward MacDowell Medal, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH.

2015: Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Halifax, Canada.

Personal thoughts: 

From researching Robert Frank and his work, I have come to admire him as an artist a lot. He’s not afraid to break the rules even when it causes him a lot of criticism. Through him breaking rules and experimenting, he is now widely recognized and admired by many. This inspires me to do the same with my own work as an artist. In my work as a future interior designer, I can create a new unique design or just experiment with different techniques to create a unique furniture style. Either way, I see following Robert Frank's ways will make an impact in the world of art.

Works cited: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frank#Awards

https://www.moma.org/artists/1973

https://www.artnet.com/artists/robert-frank-2/

https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2013/01/07/timeless-lessons-street-photographers-can-learn-from-robert-franks-the-americans/

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Gregory Halpern “It’s hard to know when to stop. I remember putting my camera away on a trip home and being relieved it was out of sight. I never feel that way, so that was clearly a sign. I haven’t kept track, but I shot maybe 700 to 1000 rolls of film.” - Gregory Halpern, Photographer. Halpern is talking about his book ‘ZZYZX’ which he worked on for five years, partly supported by a ‘Guggenheim’ fellowship. Shot in Southern California, starting out on the eastern fringes of the state then moving slowly westwards towards Los Angeles and the Pacific, it’s named after an “unincorporated community” in the Mojave desert - and has a similar sense of the outsider. Halpern (born in 1977 in Buffalo, New York) was initially drawn to Los Angeles because it “felt impossible to describe”. This sense of the inscrutable comes through in the work - published as a Photobook by ‘MACK’ (winning the 2016 ‘Paris Photo-Aperture Photobook of the Year’) - and exhibited in Autumn 2016 at Webber Gallery in London. The scribblings held by dirty hands don’t really make any sense; the images don’t add up to a conventional story or narrative. But they do work together to create a coherent whole; a journey of sorts across the landscape, seemingly from day to night. Having originally studied history and literature at ‘Harvard’ Halpern was inspired by the deliberate evasions of novelists - by the way they leave holes (in the narrative). ‘ZZYZX’ was derived from Halpern's dreams - which often seem to take place in the same imaginary location. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #design #words #pictures #southerncalifornia #beauty #emptiness #diaspora #dreamscapes #omahasketchbook #eastofthesunwestofthemoon #californiacollegeofarts #harvard #photographer #teacher #guggenheimgrant #zzyzx #gregoryhalpern (at Zzyzx, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWaWkk3sfxo/?utm_medium=tumblr

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the votes are in and it's decided

showed my curious mother what came in the fellowship pack and flipped through the photobook together, trying to show her the members and which ones i like, and she mentions how different yeo looks with blonde hair (compared to the black hair in my pcs) and she prefers the black hair. then i show her san and she goes "mMmmm" NABSIWJSIWH then i show her woo and she also goes MMM so yes, the jury has decided that woosan are the visuals of ateez, sorry everyone else </3

but as we flipped through some more, she also said "wow they're all gorgeous aren't they" like Yes Mother why do u think i am suffering constantly???? a group of eight visuals yes yes

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The Artists for Digital Rights Network (A4DRN) announces participants for Artists for inaugural Artists for Digital Rights Program

The Artists for Digital Rights Network (A4DRN) is hosting the Artists for Digital Rights Program 2021, a program that invites artists from the Philippines and Indonesia to undergo workshops on disinformation and produce an output that surfaces the complexities of disinformation in their local contexts.

Selected by a jury composed of advocacy workers from the Philippines and Indonesia, the following artists working across different disciplines such as video, photography, performance, creative writing, computer science, and architecture, will be presenting their work in an artistic publication and roundtable discussion to launch at the end of July. The program was made possible after receiving seed-funding from Doublethink Lab (DTL) and Innovation for Change-East Asia (IC4-EA).

Sofia Tantono (Indonesia)

Sofia Tantono is a writer whose works have been published in Anak Sastra, Yuwana Zine (Issues 2 and 3) and Klandestin. Besides literature, her interests span politics and various humanities disciplines from sociology to theology. When not writing, she can be found reading, browsing the internet and keeping herself updated on the news. She can be found on Instagram @sofias.writing and her blog https://sofiatantono.wordpress.com/. For her project, Sofia Tantono will be presenting a short story titled "Our Favourite Liar", which will explore disinformation as a socio-cultural phenomenon in Indonesia through three epochs in the country's landscape: Suharto's New Order, the year before the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election and the COVID-19 pandemic. She aims to illustrate how disinformation that benefits powerful groups often festers in an Indonesian civil society distrustful of the government when said disinformation comes from sources purportedly not of large institutions.

Gabriel Brioso (Philippines)

Gabriel Brioso is an interaction designer, visual artist and architect based in Metro Manila, Philippines. He graduated Cum Laude in De La Salle - College of St. Benilde's (DLS-CSB) BS-Architecture program in 2017. His work operates on the central theme of exploring the intersections of art, architecture, craft, and design. He has been involved in several noteworthy exhibitions during the past years including The Oxymoron of Patterns in the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2015), The 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (2018), and the Authenticity Zero Collective in the Gateway Gallery in Cubao (2019). He has collaborated with DLS-CSB's Center for Campus Art (CCA) on several exhibitions including The Oxymoron of Patterns (2016), Architecture=Durable (2016), and Naichayu (2017). Gabriel Brioso’s project is a digital AR object: “The Disinformation Interface” which aims to probe the allure of the social media experience in parallel with the underlying withdrawn disinformation structures that operate within it.

Marian Hukom (Philippines)

Marian Hukom is a Manila-based visual artist. A graphic designer by profession and illustrator by craft, she loves making and publishing her own comics. Her books usually range from neon autobiographies, fantasy, slice of life, and also advocacy driven content. Once an avid gig and convention goer, Marian is now a homebody doodling the night away. As a virgo workaholic, she keeps busy with her organizations, multiple hobbies, and ongoing books. Marian Hukom will be working on an autobiographical comic "Screen time", depicting her own experience with disinformation. With screens flowing as vertical narrative panels, it aims to show a POV of this experience and it's journey.

Kiki Febriyanti (Indonesia)

Kiki Febriyanti is an artist and filmmaker based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Kiki holds a Bachelor’s degree majoring in Indonesian Literature, she also completed John Darling Fellowship 2015 “Visual anthropology” at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and had held artist residency at the International Center of Graphic Arts MGLC in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2019. Recently her video work took part in the Every Woman Biennial London 2021 exhibition. Her works are focusing on the topics of gender, human rights, and culture. Kiki will be working on her project "Click Bite" which explores the instant consumption habits of people on the internet that cause cyber-bullying.

Waki Salvador (Philippines)

Waki creates experimental work through the different mediums he chances upon - digital, traditional, film, music, and code. He blends these together to create noisy and brash art. Currently, he is focusing on creating net-based installations that explore disruptive aesthetics and themes. Visit him on social media @urlcompost. Waki is working on his project "Constructed Misdirection", a website that visualizes the descent into the rabbit hole of links being clicked due to disinformation.

Adrian Mulya (Indonesia)

Adrian Mulya is an independent photographer based in Jakarta. A self-taught photographer who explores humanity through pictures. He published Winners of Life (2016), a photobook of Indonesia women who survived the 1965 genocide. He also worked on a collective memory project about his Chinese Indonesian identity So Far, So Close. Adrian Mulya will work on a project called “Serabutan”, exploring the work conditions of people in the gig economy era. The project starts with exploring how the media is glorifying the merger of 2 tech companies Gojek and Tokopedia, contrasting it with the lived experiences of the drivers

Mariah Reodica (Philippines)

Mariah Reodica is a filmmaker, writer, media archivist, and musician based in Manila, Philippines. Her background as a musician–not formally trained, but ouido,–reflects in her practices of filmmaking and writing. She was awarded the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize for Art Criticism at the 2019 Ateneo Art Awards, and currently maintains the column Platforms in The Philippine Star’s Arts and Culture section. She has been an artist-in-residence at Asia Culture Center, Gwangju (2018); Load na Dito Projects (2020); WSK (2019); and Larga Artist Residency, Silay City (2019). Reodica is affiliated with the COCONET Digital Rights Network and Imagine a Feminist Internet-SEA. Her band The Buildings recently released their second album on Japan-based label Call and Response Records. Mariah Reodica will be working on a written artistic response to the transmission of ideas and conversations via online spaces, taking the internet as more than an abstract appendage to reality, but a public space in itself.

Alfred Marasigan (Philippines)

Heavily inspired by emotional geography, slow television, and magic realism, Alfred Marasigan conducts serendipitous research and transmedial practices in real time. Guided by time as storage, the moment as artwork, and self-evidence as knowledge, he orchestrates live collaborative ensembles of audiences, histories, actions, materialities, agents, and phenomena ultimately as ongoing efforts to create spaces for various makeshift, convoluted, and anachronistic Filipino queer narratives, among them his own. Marasigan graduated in 2019 with an MA in Contemporary Art from UiT Arctic University of Norway's Kunstakademiet i Tromsø and is a Norwegian Council of the Arts Grantee for Newly Graduated Artists. Currently based in Manila, he is now a faculty member of Ateneo de Manila University’s Fine Arts Department for 6 years. Alfred will work on his project, The B.A.O.A.N.G Directory. The B.A.O.A.N.G (Bertud, Agimat, Orasyon, Albularyo, Nyoroscope, at Gayuma) Directory is a live, developing database of pages dedicated to alternative medicine, folk belief, and contemporary spirituality in the Philippines. Drawing from the garlic (bawang in Tagalog and bawang putih in Indonesian) as method, it ultimately seeks to remap the potential roots of cultural resistance to standard counter-disinformation strategies and present time-tested yet left-field approaches to online truth-seeking epistemologies.

Christina Lopez (Philippines)

Christina Lopez is a 25 year old visual artist based in Manila. Her contemporary art practice ranges from the traditional sense of image production to methods more involvedwith new media. She is interested in the capacity of art to present alternative possibilities; to theorise, to test certain boundaries that are currently in place. There is specific intent to explore power, including its relations, structure, and implications. Recently, she has been producing work that utilizes paranoia as a tool for divination, one that navigates through the obfuscation omnipresent in the production and dissemination of new technologies. The forms she chooses to represent these concepts often involve digital-physical fusion, reflecting that the virtual is inseparable from material realities. By grasping at what is seen and unseen progress is viewed as something that is neither good nor evil, and arguments are presented with commitment to what the future could be. Her work can be found inside and outside of privatised spaces and institutions. She has exhibited in Hong Kong,UK, and the Philippines. She shares her ongoing project: “I will be working on a new iteration of my previous work titled “Portraits (Proxies)”, with a renewed focus on the delineation between humans, trolls, and automata. I am particularly interested in how one can decide and establish what is real from that which is not real in terms of identity and being, and whether or not this delineation should exist in the first place. The work will still make use of StyleGAN generated portraiture, and alongside I will work with a text generation GAN to create ‘profiles’.”

Mirjam Dalire (Philippines)

Mirjam Dalire is a multidisciplinary artist based in Negros Oriental, Philippines. She works with photography, internet-based installation, video, sound, and painting. Mirjam often uses virtual spaces as a staging point for confrontations with her immediate environment, employing satire and humor in her process. Mirjam Dalire will be working on her work, “Death of NoSTrAdAmUs_420” which she will be revisiting “The End by NoSTrAdAmUs_420” a video work on conspiracy theories that she made in 2019. In this new project she will be exploring developing local online hoaxes, two years after The End was released.

*UP Internet Freedom Network President Mac Andre Arboleda is the Project Lead of the Artists for Digital Rights Network