DWeb for Creators Information Session

DWeb for Creators Information session
With mai ishikawa sutton, Sarah Grant, ngọc triệuc, Sarah Friend, Regina Harsanyi, and Roxi Shohadaee
Monday, February 26, 2024
10:30 am - 11:30 am PT
Free RSVP
Online
View our FAQ page for more info, or contact us at [email protected] with any accommodation requests.
This informal online information session offers a chance to connect face-to-face with some of the artist-educators leading the upcoming 8-week intensive, DWeb for Creators. Take advantage of this chance to connect with others interested in transforming their art practice using the emergent tools of decentralized technologies and gain insight into its methodology of employing case studies, tools, and hands-on project sessions. This is also a great opportunity to learn more about the mentorship and showcase opportunities that are on offer through this course.
If you have any questions about DWeb for Creators, please submit them in the RSVP form! There will also be an opportunity to ask questions during the session. If you're not able to make it, there will be a recording available to those who sign up on the form.
Artists

mai ishikawa sutton
mai is an organizer and writer focused on the digital commons and other intersections between network technologies and the solidarity economy. They are a co-founder and editor of COMPOST, an online magazine about and for the digital commons. They are a Senior Organizer with DWeb and a Digital Commons Fellow with Commons Network.

Sarah Grant
Sarah Grant is an American artist and professor of media art based in Berlin at the Weise7 studio. Her teaching and art practice engages with the electromagnetic spectrum and computer networks as artistic material, social habitat, and political landscape. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in Fine Art from UC Davis and a Masters in Media Arts from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Since 2015, she has organized the Radical Networks conference in New York and Berlin, a community event and arts festival for critical investigations and creative experiments in telecommunications.

ngọc triệu
ngọc triệu (she/her) is a Vietnamese design researcher and community organizer working at the intersection of human-centered design, digital rights, and public-interest technology. Over the past 6 years, ngọc's worked closely with free, open-source and decentralized project teams and their communities to tackle challenges such as digital safety and security, mis/disinformation, and Internet censorship. She initially joined the DWeb movement in 2022 as a DWeb Fellow then returned to DWeb Camp 2023 to lead the first Design Track—a thematic program dedicated to promote usable security and accessibility in Internet freedom and human rights tools and platforms. She now serves as the DWeb Fellowship Director, bringing her experience in community building and decolonial practices to amplify and expand the program's impact.

Sarah Friend
Sarah Friend is an artist and software developer from Canada and currently based in Berlin, Germany. She is an alumni in the Berlin Program for Artists, a founder and co-curator of Ender Gallery, an artist residency taking place inside the game Minecraft, and an organiser of Our Networks, a conference on all aspects of the distributed web. Recent solo exhibitions include Off: Endgame, curated by Rhizome, Refraction and Fingerprints at Public Works Administration, New York, USA and Terraforming at Galerie Nagel Draxler in Berlin, Germany. She is on the advisory board and was formerly the smart contract lead for Circles UBI, a blockchain-based community currency that aims to lead to a more equal distribution of wealth. She was also the technical lead for Culturestake, a project that uses quadratic voting to lead to better decisions about arts funding. She was a co-founder of bitspossessed, a software development consultancy that operates as a coop, and in 2022 was a visiting Professor of blockchain art at The Cooper Union.

Regina Harsanyi
Regina Harsanyi is the Associate Curator of Media Arts at the Museum of the Moving Image. She also advises artist studios, art museums, galleries, auction houses, and private collectors on preventive conservation for variable media arts, from plastics to distributed ledger technologies. Harsanyi previously facilitated over 200 exhibitions with a creative technology focus as Director of Programming at Wallplay after working as a Registrar at Sotheby’s. She is a graduate of New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, has taught at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University, and lectures globally. Her most recent curatorial work includes the acclaimed exhibition Auriea Harvey: My Veins are the Wires, My Body is Your Keyboard (MoMI, 2024).

Roxi Shohadaee
Roxi Shohadaee is the Creative Producer at Gray Area, producing the Decentralized Web Curriculum for Creators, the Criptech Metaverse Lab VR prototypes and other special projects. Roxi has been collaborating and partnering with Gray Area since 2012, including Urban Prototyping Festival, End of You and the Gray Area Festival. She is also the Executive Director, ARTchitect and Co-Founder of the Design Science Studio, a regenerative cultural incubator for artists founded to build capacity of the creative community to propel the design science (r)Evolution. She is also the Founder + CEO of habRitual: an experiential production, interdisciplinary design and immersive art studio creating for 100% of life. Roxi is a regenerative artivist, protopian futurist, ontological designer, experiential producer, transdisciplinary social sculptor and creative doula. She is a student of living systems, regenerative design and decolonial sustainability. She has over 17 years of experience working at the intersection of art, science, experience and technology. Her quest is to harness this intersectional approach to catalyze social and systemic change through inclusive, transdisciplinary collaborations for the regeneration of our planet and culture.
About the DWeb for Creators Online Intensive
In this 8-week interdisciplinary online intensive, a leading team of global innovators will guide students in an educational adventure into the decentralized future of art and community. Participants will learn how emerging technologies can empower creativity, and transform communities through data, network resilience, and decentralization. With eight knowledge sessions and six optional praxis sessions, the DWeb for Creators course is a truly customizable experience.