ABOUT THE ARTISTS

American Artist makes thought experiments that mine the history of technology, race, and knowledge production, beginning with their legal name change in 2013. Artist is a 2021 LACMA Art & Tech Lab Grant Recipient, 2021 Regents’ Lecturer at UCLA, resident at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, and an instructor of critical theory at the School for Poetic Computation. Their previous residencies include Recess, EYEBEAM, and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. They have exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art; MoMA PS1; Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and Nam June Paik Center, Seoul. They have had solo museum exhibitions at The Queens Museum, New York and The Museum of African Diaspora, California. 

Hannah Black is an artist and writer working across installation, video, performance and text. In her often collaborative work, she uses her own writing as a starting point and blends theoretical, historical and personal material. Black’s recent solo and collaborative shows include Beginning, End, None, Performance Space, New York (2019); Some Context, Chisenhale Gallery, London (2017); and Screens Series: Hannah Black, New Museum, New York (2016).

Mimi Ọnụọha is a Nigerian-American artist creating work about a world made to fit the form of data. By foregrounding absence and removal, her multimedia practice uses print, code, installation and video to make sense of the power dynamics that result in disenfranchised communities' different relationships to systems that are digital, cultural, historical, and ecological. Ọnụọha has spoken and exhibited internationally and has been in residence at Studio XX (Canada), Data & Society Research Institute (USA), the Royal College of Art (UK), Eyebeam Center for Arts & Technology (USA), and Arthouse Foundation (Nigeria, upcoming). She lives and works in Brooklyn.

Sondra Perry makes videos, performances, and installations that foreground digital tools as a way to critically reflect on new technologies of representation and remobilize their potential. Perry was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and currently resides in Newark. She received her MFA from Columbia University and her BFA from Alfred University. In 2015, Perry’s work appeared in the Greater New York exhibition at MoMA/PS1. Other exhibitions include Resident Evil at The Kitchen, New York, Typhoon Coming On at Serpentine Galleries, London; Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon at The New Museum, New York; and Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, Seattle Art Museum. The artist has participated in residencies including CORE at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Experimental Television Center. 

E. Jane is an interdisciplinary artist and musician based in Brooklyn, New York. Inspired by Black liberation and womanist praxis, their work incorporates digital images, performance, sculpture, installation, and sound design. Since 2015, Jane has been developing the performance persona MHYSA, an underground popstar for cyber resistance. MHYSA operates in Jane’s Lavendra/Recovery (2015-)—an iterative multimedia installation—and out in the world. Their new album NEVAEH came out in February 2020 on Hyperdub records in London. E. Jane received their MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Art History from Marymount Manhattan College. They were a 2016 recipient of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a 2019-2020 artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and are currently a Harvard College Fellow in New Media as a part of SCRAAATCH.

Stephanie Dinkins is a transmedia artist who creates platforms for dialog about race, gender, aging, and our future histories. Dinkins’ art practice employs emerging technologies, documentary practices, and social collaboration toward equity and community sovereignty. Dinkins is a professor at Stony Brook University where she holds the Kusama Endowed Professor in Art. Dinkins earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and is an alumna of the Whitney Independent Studies Program. Dinkins is a 2021 United States Artist Fellow and Knight Arts & Tech Fellow. Previous fellowships, residencies and support include the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Data and Society Research Institute Fellowship, Sundance New Frontiers Story Lab, and The Laundromat Project. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Hyperallergic, Wired, and the BBC.

Bianca Dominguez  is an artist, curator, healing arts practitioner and educator residing in Brooklyn, New York. She founded Medicine For the People, an ongoing curatorial project bringing together BIPOC healers and artists to cultivate communal sacred spaces and to engage in the intersectionalities of social practice and healing through the arts. She was a collaborative artist alongside Tanya Aguinia at the MAD Museum, located in Manhattan, performing Performance Crafting: Backstrap Weaving in 2018. She also has showcased at Arts Gowanus in Brooklyn, NY and in Staten Island at the Newhouse Center of Contemporary Art. Currently she is attaining a BA in visual arts at Columbia University and is the lead teaching artist at Church Street School for Music and Art in TriBeCa. 

Mae Miller is a researcher, curator, and museum educator. Her work engages the politics, histories, and aesthetics of global Black freedom struggles. Miller is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Geography from the Graduate Center, City University of New York in 2020 and recently completed the Museum Professionals Institute at the Studio Museum in Harlem. She has previously lectured at Vassar College, and developed youth educational programming at the Museum of the City of New York, Gunnersbury Park Museum (London, UK), and Columbus College of Art and Design (Columbus, OH, USA). Her first solo-curated exhibition, A Thousand Secrets, will open at Apexart Gallery in New York City in June 2022 and explores themes of relational worldmaking through oceanic crosscurrents.

Gee Wesley is an arts organizer born in Monrovia, Liberia, and based in New York where he works as a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Media and Performance at The Museum of Modern Art. Prior to joining MoMA, Wesley held roles as Program Director at Recess (Brooklyn, NY), Curatorial Fellow at SculptureCenter (Queens, NY), Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia, PA), visiting instructor at Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY), and adjunct faculty in the Curatorial Practice MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD). Wesley is a co-founder and board member of Ulises, a nonprofit art bookshop based in Philadelphia. He received his M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies, at Bard College