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“a space in fourteen traces” opens next Thursday, April 30th at the Gelman Gallery. - Join us for a series of activations and performances happening throughout the opening reception from 5-8PM. A closing reception with more performances will take place the May 22nd from 3-5PM. If you’re lucky, you can catch some of the artists re-activating through the month of May, from the 1st until the 31st. - a space in fourteen traces is an ecosystem composed by fourteen interventions to the networks that sustain the Gelman Gallery and its structures. Here, Margeaux Abeyta, Charlston Britton, Lloyd-Princeton Cange, Benjamin Carrasco, Megita Denton, Sarina Hermanto, Margaret McCreery, Spencer Peterson, Rey Reyes, Meri Sanders, Edgar Solorzano, AnneMarie Torresen, Echo Yan, Nicolas Franco Zamudio, Del Ziegman, and curator Vida Zamora asks us to consider how land, place, viewership, socialities, histories, relationships, and affiliations always already co-constitute and renegotiate the exhibition space. Whether gathering over twelve weeks or singularly responding to the collective, these artists’ proposals ponder the current space’s eco-geographic and socio-institutional context, weaving site and its relations through an emerging inquiry: How can we stand in one place and hold its many worlds at once? - See you on the flip side!

D+M Visiting Artist Lecture Series Analia Segal📍TH, Apr 23 11am || CIT 4th floor Analia Segal studio practice is driven by research and conceptual concerns that integrate a dynamic, wide and ever-expanding range of mediums and processes, from sculpture and installation to photography, video, drawing, sound and most recently performance. The works intend to reveal her ever-present preoccupations of what defines “home”, what shapes one’s identity, what constructs the self as well as the shifting codes that define the migrant and female experience. @csdmm https://www.pratt.edu/people/analia-segal/ #digitalart #digitalmedia

D+M Visiting Artist Lecture Series Cat Mazza📍TH, Apr 9 11am || CIT 4th floor Cat Mazza (b. 1977 Washington DC) is a visual artist whose combination of craft and digital media explores the overlaps between textiles, technology and labor. Mazza has received fellowships from Creative Capital, the Now+There Accelerator, the Rockefeller Foundation and MacDowell Colony. Her animation Knit for Defense is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection. Mazza’s recent sculptures Electroknit Dymaxion was on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (2020) and Taking the Cure at the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park (2018-2020). Her past work has shown at the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), the Museum of Arts and Design (New York City), Triennale Design Museum (Milan), the Jönköpings läns Museum (Sweden) and the Milwaukee Art Museum. She has also exhibited at new media festivals The Influencers (Barcelona); Futuresonic (Manchester) and Ars Electronica (Linz). Her work has been noted in multiple publications including Artforum, Modern Painters, American Craft and various books on art, craft and politics. Mazza is Professor of Art at University of Massachusetts Boston (2007-present). She was an early staff member of the New York City art and technology center Eyebeam from 1999-2002. She holds a MFA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2005) and a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University (1999). / #risd #risddm #textileart #digitalmedia

This Thursday, March 19! Paula Matthusen and Olivia Valentine’s sound performance as - between systems and grounds - merging textiles construction and real-time electronics. @risdmuseum in the Grand Gallery, with admission 4-5pm and free to all from 5-7pm. Presented by Studio for Research in Sound & Technology, Department of Digital + Media, and RISD Museum

This Thursday @risdmuseum - between systems and grounds - sound performance. With admission from 4-5pm and free to all from 5-7pm. Paula Matthusen and Olivia Valentine bring their collaboration merging textiles construction and real-time electronics. Don’t miss it!

D+M Visiting Artist Lecture Series Edith Vázquez📍TH, Mar12 11am || CIT 4th floor Edith Vázquez is an award-winning audiovisual artist and PhD in Arts and Design from UNAM. Her practice explores the intersection of art, science, and light, reconfiguring historical imagery through dance, optics, and visual experimentation. By transforming archival images and histories of violence into immersive visual languages of resistance, Vázquez creates works that resonate across film and installation. She is the director of The Eyes of Charcot, presented internationally as both an immersive installation and a screendance film. /watch?v=YCFuHNzchcs

This is AnneMarie ( @atorresen ), a D+M grad and former math teacher striving to make math welcoming to all. I will trade you a zine for ~30 minutes of your time helping me fold wire in a computational pattern. Your wire will become part of my thesis installation, and your name will be listed as a contributing artist. I've scheduled folding events in Fletcher 203 on Wed 3/4 at 11am and Wed 3/11 at 5pm, and a couple more in the College Building the week of 3/16. I'll add more times as necessary and add them to this >>>>> RSVP form: tinyurl.com/risd-fold Feel free to message me with questions :) It will be fun! Math is gr8! Bring a friend!

SOUP: A Sympoietic Encounter A presentation of work from Sympoiesis Studio at the RISD Digital + Media department by: @delziegman @vdzm__ @meredithsanderss @atorresen @comedydisaster with the mentorship of @czimme and assistance from @sarrrrrahtts Join us Sunday, December 7th at Brown University’s McCormack Theater (70 Brown St, Providence) for a series of performances, happenings, installations, and films made throughout the semester. We will start at 5pm (est) for research presentations and *SOUP!* followed by the activations and encounters from 6pm-7pm Come practice SOUPoiesis!!!

D+M Visiting Artist Lecture Series Nadav Assor📍TH, Nov13 11am || CIT 4th floor Nadav Assor’s layered videos, sound work, installations and performances engage real and imagined places and personal stories in an embodied, visceral, and critical manner. The work is produced and mediated through lo-fi, handmade technological systems, often based on appropriated military-industrial systems, driven by and for the body, generating intimate human connections and new, fragmented perspectives.  Assor’s work has been featured in film festivals, museums, galleries, and live venues across North America, Europe, and Asia. Recent venues include Gallery 400 Chicago, Arsenal Berlin, the Oberhausen Film Festival, Video Vortex XI at Kochi-Muziris, India, Hong-Gah Museum Taipei, La Casa Encendida Madrid, Edith-Russ Haus Oldenburg, Transmediale Festival Berlin, the Soundwave Biennial San Francisco, Residency Unlimited NYC, Julie M Gallery Toronto + Tel Aviv, Fridman Gallery NYC and more.  Assor’s work has been reviewed in publications such as Artforum, Hyperallergic, the Chicago Tribune, the Bad at Sports podcast, Art Monthly UK and Haaretz, and featured in “Rêvolution Digitale”, an overview of international digital art by CANAL’s Museum TV channel. Many of his single channel video works as well as some multichannel ones are distributed via Video Data Bank, Chicago.  He is a Professor of Studio Art at Connecticut College, where he also directs the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, and is an alumni fellow of the MIT Open Documentary Lab (2019-2022) and a current researcher with the Lab’s AR and Public Space working group. /

We are excited to announce the 2025 Digital + Media Biennial at Sol Koffler Gallery: In Media Res. Twenty-five media and emergent practice works from different artists will be showcased from October 31st until November 9th at 169 Weybosset St, with performances and an opening reception on Thursday, October 30th at 7pm. In this exhibition, artists propose a relation to memory that is not self-referential, but contingent to media. Using “tertiary retention” as a guiding factor, they explore the imbrication of affect in media, as well as the porosity of its resulting mnemonic excess. Participants: @atorresen @loriismagneto @sarrrrrahtts @yich.uanwang @yuval_gur @hanyi_ventisette @y2s2_222 @ruoxiliii @annie_huu_hello @yliu.cn @yuri.lxl @juzipi123 @samtenthij @salma_hassaan @nicfrazam @vdzm__ @ayakawa2025 @rosanna.xyz @milliiiiiooo @2dnot4d @halloweeneffect @aerinuomiiciii @kekexiaopenyou @n0.orbit Programmers: @vdzm__ @loriismagneto @y2s2_222 @aerinuomiiciii Special thanks to @sizod for the technical and technological guidance, to @mariela_yeregui and @adela_goldbard for the mentorship with most of these works, and to @s3g for your support organizing this exhibition. Graphics by @yuri.lxl

D+M Visiting Artist Lecture Series Liat Berdugo📍TH, Oct23 11am || CIT 4th floor Liat Berdugo is an artist and writer whose work investigates embodiment, labor, and militarization in relation to capitalism, technological utopianism, and the Middle East. Her work has been exhibited and screened at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), MoMA PS1 (New York), Transmediale (Berlin), V2_Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam), and The Wrong Biennale (online), among others. Her writing appears in Rhizome, Temporary Art Review, Real Life, Places, and The Institute for Network Cultures, among others, and her latest book is The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East (Bloomsbury/I.B.Tauris, 2021). She is one half of the art collective, Anxious to Make, and is the co-founder of the Living Room Light Exchange, a monthly new media art series. Berdugo received an MFA from RISD and a BA from Brown University. She is currently an associate professor of Art + Architecture and director of the User Experience / User Interface (UX/UI) minor at the University of San Francisco. Berdugo lives and works in Oakland, CA. /bio-contact

D+M Visiting Artist Lecture Series Esteban Agosin📍TH, Sep25 11am || CIT 4th floor Esteban Agosin is a sound and electronic media artist originally from Valparaiso, Chile. In 2024, he received a PhD in Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) at the University of Washington. He lives and works in New York and is an assistant professor of Digital Arts and Media at Stony Brook University. His work engages with the question of how technology provides a perspective to observe and understand our natural, social and political environment. And also, inquiring on the aesthetic possibilities of using art and technology in order to re-imagine and speculate about our environment. His work involves sound and media installations, robotic objects, and media performance, and it has been presented in art festivals and solo exhibitions in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, the United States, Spain, Finland, and France. Furthermore, Esteban has worked as an educator at different universities in Chile, Argentina, and the United States, teaching and investigating the intersection of sound, media, and technology. https://estebanagosin.cl/