Draft:Amelia Winger-Bearskin

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Amelia Winger-Bearskin (born 1979[1]) is an American artist and educator. Her work deals with artificial intelligence, ethics, and climate justice, among other topics.

Early life and education[edit]

Winger-Bearskin was born in 1979, and grew up in Oklahoma and New York. As a child she would accompany her mother during performances of their tribe's (Seneca Cayuga Nation) traditional stories . Winger Bearskin studied opera at Eastman School of Music[2], and holds an MFA from the University of Texas, Austin in Transmedia.[3] She also has a Master's Degree from NYU Tisch's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).[4] She has formerly taught at Vanderbilt University. In 2021 she was artist and technologist in residence as part of the Stanford Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning (VAF). She was a Mozilla Fellow embedded at MIT Co-Creation Studio in 2020.[5]

She is currently a Banks Endowed Preeminence Chair of AI and the Arts: Digital Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida's Digital Worlds Institute.  She is the founding director of the UF AI Climate Justice Lab.[6]

Career[edit]

Winger-Bearskin works in a variety of media including photography, video, installation, poetry and performance. Her works often reference or play on concepts taken from traditional Haudenosaunee stories and the history of indigenous peoples in North America set against themes introduced by contemporary technology.

Selected Exhibitions[edit]

Winger-Bearskin has shown work at:

  • 2023 - Underwater Listening Room Governor's Island, New York, for LMCC[7]
  • 2023 - Midnight & To Body, NXT Museum, Amsterdam[8]
  • 2023 - SKYWORLD/CLOUD WORLD at the Whitney Museum of American Art[9]
  • 2022 - Honor Native Lands collaboration with NOCS and REI[10]
  • 2020 - Billboard Project, For Freedoms[11]
  • 2020 - Wampum Codes podcast[12]
  • 2019 - Monsters (with Wendy Redstar)[13]
  • 2017 - Your Hands Are Feet (with Sarah Rothberg)[14]
  • 2014 - Stupid Hackathon[15]
  • 2014 - "Say Indian", La biennale d'art contemporain autochtone, 2e édition (Art Biennale of Contemporary Native Art) at Art Mur (Montreal, Canada)[16]
  • 2011 - Creation Story, solo video installation, Verbo Performance Art Festival, Atrium Gallery at the Gwen Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI[17]
  • 2011 - Galeria Vermehlo, Sao Paulo Brazil (Interactive Live Performance)[18]
  • 2011 - Heir Today / Gone Tomorrow at the Austin Mexican Cultural Center (June) Austin TX[19]
  • 2011 - Material Apparatus, Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Museum of Art, Nashville, TN[20]
  • 2010 - Opera Space 204, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN (video installation)
  • 2010 - Free Bruises, Pink LIne Project, Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington DC (Performance)[21]
  • 2010 - Square Dance / Round Dance, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens Georgia (Performance)[22]
  • 2010 - Square Dance/ Round Dance at the Frist Center for Visual Arts Nashville, Tennessee (Performance)[23]
  • Flowers and Vocal Performance at Tama TUPADA Action and Media Art Festival in the Philippines, Manila Philippines (2 Performances)[24]
  • 2010 - Crying on Cue and The State of Things Pan-Asia09 Performance Art in Seoul South Korea (Performance and Video Screening)[25]
  • 2009 - Look Like You've Been in a Fight Cabaret, 10th Annual Open Art Performance Art Festival, Beijing China (Live Performance)[26]
  • 2009 - Memory of Light, Gallery 32, Solo show of the work of Regina Vater with a collaborative performance video, London, England[27]
  • 2009 - Changement de Pieds at gallery F, Nashville TN with Carlin Wing and Charlene Winger-Bearskin.[28]
  • 2007 - Scope Art Fair, Lincoln Center, member of [PAM], New York, NY (Live Performance)[29]
  • Volitant Gallery, Femme Fantastique, Live Performance, Austin, TX[30]
  • Chelsea Art Museum, Video Art in the Age of the Internet, Video installation, New York, NY[31]
  • National Botanical Gardens, Transnatura, Coimbra, Portugal.[32]

Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim Museum, and the McCord Museum.

Awards[edit]

In 2022 she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Award for her project CLOUD WORLD / SKYWORLD.[33]

Her 2018 virtual reality piece Your Hands Are Feet from won an Alternative Realities Prize from Engadget and Verizon Media.[34]

Her video art was selected as a part of Storytelling: La biennale d'art contemporain autochtone, 2e édition (Art Biennale of Contemporary Native Art) at Art Mur (Montreal, Canada).[35] She has been a featured artist at numerous international performance art festivals since 2008 in cities not limited to: Beijing, China, Manila, Philippines, Seoul, South Korea, Sao Paulo, Brazil, New York, NY, and Washington, DC. She presented her performance art at the 2012 Gwangju Art Biennial and created an interactive portion of The Exchange Archive at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 2013.  Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim Museum, and the McCord Museum.

Publications[edit]

  • Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice[36]
  • Our Environment[37]

Talks and Keynotes[edit]

  • Keynote: New Haven Art & Ideas Festival[38]
  • Creativity in the Age of AI; Stanford Arts[39]
  • Tech As Art: Supporting Artist Who Use Technology as a Creative Medium; National Endowment for the Arts[40]
  • Reseeing the Present, Rewriting the Past; Sundance Institute[41]
  • Future Art Ecosystems; Serpentine Gallery[42]
  • Human Rights and Web3 for Activists; Amnesty International[43]
  • From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future; Eyebeam[44]
  • How Can Artists Reshape Politics; Sundance Film Festival[45]

Other projects[edit]

Winger-Bearskin is cofounder of the Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon. She is also the host of the podcast Wampum Codes and founder of the ethical framework for software development of the same name.

Personal life[edit]

Amelia is an enrolled member of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, Deer Clan on her mother's side; her late father was Jewish/Baha'i. She was born in Rochester, NY and has one son.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Democrat and Chronicle from Rochester, New York". Newspapers.com. 1993-12-29. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  2. ^ "Amelia Winger-Bearskin". www.uncsa.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  3. ^ "Amelia Winger-Bearskin (MFA, 2008) launches Sky/World Death/World for The Whitney Museum of American Art | Department of Art and Art History - The University of Texas at Austin". art.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  4. ^ "ITP Alum has a new book coming out through MIT Press!". tisch.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  5. ^ "Amelia Winger-Bearskin | Mozilla Fellow at Co-Creation Studio". MIT Open Documentary Lab. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  6. ^ "AI Climate Justice Lab – Digital Worlds Research". Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  7. ^ Pontone, Maya (2023-07-31). "In Governors Island, Seven Video Artists Imagine Radical Futures". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  8. ^ "Midnight & To Body by Amelia Winger-Bearskin". Nxt Museum. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  9. ^ "Amelia Winger-Bearskin: Sky/World Death/World". whitney.org. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  10. ^ "Nocs Provisions partners with Indigenous artist and REI". Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building | Green design & innovation for a better world. 2022-11-02. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  11. ^ Sayej, Nadja (2020-10-12). "Indigenous Peoples' Day: the latest US billboard project to send a message". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  12. ^ "Amelia Winger-Bearskin Is Using A.I. Art To Tell Indigenous Stories". UPROXX. 2021-12-30. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  13. ^ Levin, Erica (2023-07-04). "Monsters, 2019". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  14. ^ Mustatea, Kat. "How This VR Creator Can Make Your Eyes Fall Out Of Your Head". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  15. ^ D'Anastasio, Cecilia (2016-02-08). "Inside the Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon". Vice. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  16. ^ "Art Mûr – La Biennale d'art contemporain autochtone". Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  17. ^ "Amelia Winger-Bearskin: Creation Story | Frostic School of Art | Western Michigan University". wmich.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  18. ^ Ferreira, Beth (2011-07-05). "Verbo 2011". Bitsmag.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  19. ^ Brenner, Wayne Alan (July 15, 2011). "'Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow'". www.austinchronicle.com. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  20. ^ "News and Event Archives Prior to July 2015". Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  21. ^ Fischer, Jonathan L. (2010-10-22). "Party Pooped". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  22. ^ Boland, Lynn (2010-06-30). "Holbrook's Trunk: Amelia Winger-Bearskin at AthFest". Holbrook's Trunk. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  23. ^ Square Dance/Round Dance - Amelia Winger-Bearskin, retrieved 2023-08-14
  24. ^ "Vanderbilt University". news.vanderbilt.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  25. ^ "Video: "Live Art: Learning to Cry on Cue"". Vanderbilt University. Nov 4, 2010. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  26. ^ winger-bearskin, Amelia (2009-09-19), Look Like you've been in a fight Cabaret: Beijing, retrieved 2023-08-14
  27. ^ "Sala Brasil + Gallery 32: Regina Vater: Memory of Light | 23 June – 19 Aug 2009". Sala Brasil + Gallery 32. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  28. ^ Nolan, Joe (2009-05-07). "Changement de Pieds at gallery F". Nashville Scene. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  29. ^ "[PAM] Cinema Scope | post.thing.net". post.thing.net. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  30. ^ Castillo, Salvador (October 12, 2007). "Femme Fantastique". www.austinchronicle.com. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  31. ^ "Perpetual Art Machine - Video Art in the Age of the Internet". kunstaspekte.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  32. ^ "VIDEOARTE". coisas-e-coisas.hi7.co. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  33. ^ Busch, Anita (2017-08-15). "MacArthur Foundation Awards $5.7M To Support Diversity For Documentary Filmmakers". Deadline. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  34. ^ ArtDesignEntertainmentMultimediaVideoWriting. "'Your Hands Are Feet' puts you inside a psychedelic egg yolk". Christopher Trout. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  35. ^ "Art Mûr – La Biennale d'art contemporain autochtone". Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  36. ^ "Collective Wisdom". MIT Press. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  37. ^ "Vol. 2 Our Environment – Data Science by Design". datasciencebydesign.org. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  38. ^ "Keynote: Amelia Winger-Bearskin". International Festival of Arts and Ideas. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  39. ^ Creativity in the Age of AI: AI, Art & the Seneca Creation Story, retrieved 2023-08-14
  40. ^ Meet the Artist: Amelia Winger-Bearskin #TechAsArt, retrieved 2023-08-14
  41. ^ Reseeing the Present, Rewriting the Past, retrieved 2023-08-14
  42. ^ Future Art Ecosystems 2 Live: Amelia Bearskin-Winger, retrieved 2023-08-14
  43. ^ Human Rights & web3 for Activists: Salon #4 hosted by Amnesty International & Fight for the Future, retrieved 2023-08-14
  44. ^ Amelia Winger-Bearskin and Valencia James at Eyebeam's From the Rupture, retrieved 2023-08-14
  45. ^ How Can Artists Reshape Politics? Panel at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, retrieved 2023-08-14
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