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New teaching position: this fall I began a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Digital Arts Media in the Art Department at Clemson University. My courses include beginning and advanced new media and art curation/festival organizing seminars.
current_generator.v1 is currently on view in the faculty exhibit, Artists Teaching:Teaching Artists, in the Lee Gallery at Clemson University through Dec 6th, 2024.
My photo portrait of Violeta Luna was published on Hyperallergic as the cover image for the article, How Can Grantmakers Support Artists of Color?
5th annual Open Air Media Festival: Friday May 31 at FilmScene in Iowa City. experimental works curated from a national open call by guest curators. Saturday June 1st, Iowa-based artists will present installations and performances in outdoor locations surrounding PS1 Close House. The historic building will also be illuminated by our inaugural artist in residence.
My 2015 documentary, Juan Jaula es John Cage, made in collaboration with Guillermo Galindo, will be on view at ExTeresa Arte in Mexico City as part of Galindos retrospective, “All our atoms give body to thousands of lives before ours.” April 25 through July 21, 2024
Limited edition VHS puzzle now for sale through Shapeshifters Cinema in Oakland, CA: shop.shapeshifterscinema.com
Two open calls for Open Air Media Festival 2024, due March 1st: https://www.publicspaceone.com/openair
I will be chairing a panel session titled, "Teaching Digital Art in the Age of Machine Learning" during the Mid-America College Art Association Virtual Conference on March 21st – 23rd, 2024.
Artist Talk: Intermedia Unbound, Department of Art and Art History, University of Maine, February 1, 2024
Portrait of Guillermo Gómez-Peña published for the 2023 Artistic Legacy Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Dancing with Fear series made in collaboration with La Pocha Nostra screened during the Inverse Performance Art Festival at The Momentary in Bentonville, AR, Nov 2-5, 2023.
Open call for the inaugural artist in residence for Open Air Media Festival is now live: publicspaceone.com/openair-artist-in-residence-2024 This residency is funded by a National Endowment for the Arts(NEA) Grants for Arts Projects and a Warhol Foundation Grant.
The Gatekeepers excerpt (Coyolxāuhqui & Cōātlīcue) featuring Yunuen Rhi will screen at Blum & Poe Gallery in Los Angeles on June 16, 2023 during the ACID-FREE art market. The screening is curated by Elizabeth Vasquez in partnership with the Philosophical Research Society. A second screening of the same program will be shown at The Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles on Saturday, September 16th.
Open Air Media Festival in partnership with Public Space One in Iowa City has just received a Grants for Arts Projects from the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA). This funding will support an expanded version for next year's, 2024 festival including multiple locations for site-specific projects, a national open call for our video screening program selected by guest curators, and the ability to host an artist in residence. I am thrilled to receive this support and continue to grow this project.
Photograph from my Salton Sea series will be included in the book, What Makes a Lake? Tracing Movement, published by Another Earth, a publishing project created by artists Abbey Meaker, Cristian Ordóñez, and Estefania Puerta. https://another-earth.com/books