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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…