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DWeb for Creators Information Session

Join us online for an information session for the DWeb for Creators Intensive! Learn about the course, meet the artist-educators that will be leading the classes, and participate in a live Q&A.

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.

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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, project manager of Distributed Press, and a contributor to Hypha Worker Co-operative. They are also the Director of Fellowships of DWeb Camp, 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 (b. 1994, Vietnam) is a design researcher who practices design and research as interventions to address and reform asymmetrical power relations through the lenses of decoloniality and decentralization. She's lived in Vietnam, Japan, the UK, and Germany where she's worked in open-source and public-interest technology, international development, humanitarian aid, pedagogical design, documentary photography, and film-making. When ngọc isn't busy distilling data into insights or contemplating ways of decolonial being, she enjoys working with clay, doing Kendo (Japanese sword-fighting), and taking long walks in the mountains.

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 a Time-Based Media specialist who has been assisting Museum of the Moving Image with born-digital art and artifacts since 2017. A graduate of New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, Harsanyi has worked on major time-based media conservation projects for artist studios, galleries, museums, auction houses, and private collectors such as bitforms, Jenny Holzer, Sotheby’s, and Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. From 2017-2020 Harsanyi also facilitated over 200 exhibitions across 26 locations under Wallplay as Director of Programming.

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.

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