{"id":9141,"date":"2020-10-08T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=9141"},"modified":"2025-02-23T22:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T04:23:07","slug":"american-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2020\/10\/08\/american-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"American Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thursday, October 08,\u00a07:00 p.m.<\/span>\u2013<\/strong><\/em>8:15 p.m. CT<\/strong><\/em>
\n<\/span><\/span>Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema<\/p>\n

Live captions available.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Join us for a talk by multidisciplinary new media artist\u00a0American Artist, whose work examines Black labor and visibility within networked life. Their video,\u00a0Blue Life Seminar<\/em>, is on view in the Gene Siskel Film Center\u2019s virtual cinema from October 4\u201310. American Artist will be joined in conversation by shawn\u00e9\u00a0michaelain holloway and Jon Chambers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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American Artist, Blue Life Seminar, 2019. Courtesy of the artist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

American Artist\u2019s multidisciplinary practice spans new media, sculpture, and writing. In acclaimed projects like\u00a0My Blue Window<\/em>\u00a0(2019), Artist criticizes artificial intelligence, mimicking the aesthetic of first-person games to lay bare the structural biases built into seemingly neutral policing technologies. In others, Artist imagines technologies that position Blackness as the basis of virtual creative possibility. Artist\u2019s legal name serves as a foundation for these projects, suggesting that an \u201cAmerican artist\u201d is Black, while at the same time resisting identification by digital systems.<\/p>\n

Artist is a resident of Red Bull Arts Detroit, and a 2018\u201319 recipient of the Queens Museum Jerome Foundation Fellowship. They are a former resident of EYEBEAM and completed the Whitney Independent Study program as an artist in 2017. They have exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and Koenig & Clinton, New York. Their writings have been published in The New Inquiry, the New Criticals, and Art21. Their work has been featured in the New York Times, Artforum, ARTnews, and the Huffington Post, among others. Artist is a part-time faculty at Parsons School of Design and teaches at the School for Poetic Computation.<\/p>\n

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Blue Life Seminar
\n<\/strong>October 4\u2013October 10
\nGene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema<\/p>\n

Originally installed as the centerpiece of the exhibition\u00a0I\u2019m Blue (If I Was \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 I Would Die)<\/em>,\u00a0Blue Life Seminar<\/em>\u00a0is a chilling lecture on policing and state violence. Delivered by a blue figure whose features are drawn from the\u00a0Watchmen\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Doctor Manhattan and the Black, former Los Angeles Police Officer Christopher Dorner, the piece turns on the nature of \u201cBlue Life,\u201d an identity constructed by members of law enforcement in response to Black Lives Matter. Artist draws parallels between Doctor Manhattan, who self-exiled after becoming weaponized by the United States government, and Dorner, who shot and killed four people, including two cops, after publishing a manifesto on the LAPD\u2019s racist culture and excessive use of force. \u201cI am a man who has lost complete faith in the system,\u201d the disillusioned figure declares, cautioning, \u201cmany of you who identify as blue are Black.\u201d<\/p>\n

American Artist, USA, 2019, 19:31 minutes<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, October 08,\u00a07:00 p.m.\u20138:15 p.m. CT Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Live captions available. Join us for a talk by multidisciplinary new media artist\u00a0American Artist, whose work examines Black labor and visibility within networked life. Their video,\u00a0Blue Life Seminar, is on view in the Gene Siskel Film Center\u2019s virtual cinema from October 4\u201310. American […]<\/p>\n

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