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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Border Control – New Media Caucus

    Presenting and supporting the Border Control Symposium & Exhibition. . . BORDER CONTROL: The New Media Caucus is gathering artists and scholars to critically engage relevant topics around borders and boundaries. These concepts, both tangible and ephemeral, are closely tied to the ways in which humanity has always made sense of the world. Borders can…

  • Shifting Lenses

    Presented by Transformer Station, the Small Hall Performance series is back with performances by Megan Young, Gregory King, Kyle Kidd, and Collaborators. The 2019 Small Hall Performance series is hosted in conjunction with Transformer Station’s I Sing the Body exhibition. August 8 & September 26, 7-8PM $5 admission at the door; Transformer Station members free