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  • Open Space in Armenia

    The Open Space platform as part of the Armenia Art Fair is designed to present contemporary art within a larger context and scale, not through galleries, but through individual artists, curatorial projects, and off-spaces. This year’s focus, curated by Eva Khachatryan, asks artists to respond to the outdoor area of the Mergelyan Institute (Yerevan Computer…

  • Wongface Celebration

    Jordan Wong’s Super Mega Wonder 1999 – first envisioned as part of SPACES’ group exhibition A Public Trust curated by Megan Young – finds its forever home in Cleveland! The public sculpture is seven feet tall, designed with inspiration from toy boxes and covered with Wong’s signature graphics. It is now open for exchange, sitting…

  • NMC Member Showcase

    New Media Caucus Member Showcase The NMC showcase is a curated series of rapid-fire presentations by NMC members. It has proven to be an excellent forum to get to know the work of fellow members in a lively atmosphere and is the signature offsite event of the New Media Caucus (even virtually). Food and select…

  • Myers School of Art Showing

    On Friday, January 28 2022 at 6:00pm, Megan Young will present a work-in-progress screening of a new experimental film. Sign Stealing: Fuzzy Boundaries compares communal, care-based methods of surveillance to contemporary, technology-based systems. This work asks if we can re-tool emerging technologies to better serve our most vulnerable populations. It combines performance elements, clips from…

  • See Sign Stealing in Ann Arbor

    The Sign Stealing project has been selected for inclusion as part of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Off the Screen! Programming. A 6-Channel video installation will be presented in partnership with the University of Michigan in the North Quad community space. Additionally, Megan Young will present a community engaged workshop considering the surveillance landscape and…

  • Walking the Drone

    As part of the residency and public engagement with Akron Soul Train, Megan Young’s SIGN STEALING project explores the rise in state sanctioned domestic surveillance and militarized responses to civilian gatherings. AST is hosting a free public engagement in downtown Akron where participants explore how aerial surveillance affects physicality and perception. Those attending will engage…

  • SLSA Arts Lounge Session

    Soci­ety for Lit­er­a­ture, Sci­ence and the Arts Conference Presented by Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design Sep­tem­ber 30 — Octo­ber 3 (online) Megan Young is chairing a special Arts Lounge session, “Living Code & Sharing Abundance” on in conjunction with SloMoCo. Panelists include: Christy Bolingbroke, Greg Corness, Jie Qi, Katya Rozanova, Kate Sicchio, and Roopa…

  • Games for Change Festival

    Check out the 2021 Games for Change Festival! Megan Young was delighted to serve as a reviewer for this year’s competition. About the festival: Games continue to be a powerful tool to inspire, connect, and change the world, supporting today’s most pressing challenges around social justice and civic issues, education, health and more– we’ve seen…

  • CEC ArtsLink Residency

    Megan Young has been awarded a 2021 CEC ArtsLink – Arts Prospect Residency to Yerevan, Armenia. She will research feminist social practices, anti-oppression work, and engage the community through arts interventions.   Learn more.

  • SloMoCo Gatherings

    Megan Young chaired one of three summer SloMoCo gatherings on Friday, July 30, 2021. The Living Code & Sharing Abundance event featured introductions by select microresidents, presents creative practice works, and invites participation in a guest seminar with Thomas F. DeFrantz considering the concepts of mutual aid within movement and computing fields. This organizational theory…

  • SloMoCo MicroResidency

    I’m jazzed to be part of some collective body+tech workgroups this spring! SloMoCo – an initiative of the Movement & Computing Conference (MOCO)– is an experiment in refiguring the conference form via global collaborations in collective knowledge-production, cybernetically informed learning-making structurations, and telematically mediated field practice. The Spring Phase runs January-May 2021.

  • Open Call for Time-Based Works

    I’m curating an online + on ground exhibition opening in April. . .  Columbia College Chicago, in partnership with SPACES, invites all Columbia alumni to submit work to our first-ever time-based, online exhibition: Coming Suddenly, Passing Strangely. Works are now being accepted that navigate transition and change. We invite artists to share their experiences: breaking new…

  • Downtown Field Trip

    Sign up to join local artists on on Saturday, September 26, 2020 from 3-5pm in exploring Cleveland’s pubic monuments. This public engagement, designed in conjunction with The Monument Lab’s self directed activity guide of the same name, explores questions of art and justice within public spaces. We will meet in Cleveland’s Public Square at 3PM,…

  • For Freedoms Congress

    Taking time to connect and deepen my practice through the For Freedoms Congress. . .  Hundreds of artists, curators, arts administrators, and academics are gathering in Los Angeles in advance of the 2020 United States elections. Thanks to generous support from For Freedoms and SPACES, I am fortunate to join as an Ohio representative.  The first…

  • Cleveland Magazine has announced it a “Can’t Miss” gallery exhibition! Come to the opening reception for Past Due on Friday, January 24, 2020 from 6-8PM. The group exhibition features artists’ speculative approaches to reparations in the USA with methods of their devising. The gallery is at 410 E 30th Street in Cleveland and the exhibition…