Name: Second Sundays: December 2019
Start: 2019-12-08
End: 2019-12-08
Location: Pioneer Works

December Second Sundays is made possible by YouTube Learning.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Second Sundays: 
December 2019

December Second Sundays is made possible by YouTube Learning.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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During the golden years of Ethiopian music, as documented in the Ethiopique series, Hailu Mergia was Ethiopia’s most popular keyboard player. He was also the bandleader for the legendary Walias Band.

Hailu Mergia

Lucien Samaha’s A History of Digital Photography brings together three decades of the artist's work—a time period that corresponds with the rise of digital photography; in 1990, Samaha was the inaugural recipient of Kodak’s Professional Photography Division scholarship, becoming the first person to use Kodak’s DCS 100 Professional Digital Camera System outside the factory floor. Since then, the artist’s pioneering experiments with the form have reflected this radical new era of image-making. This exhibition gives us a deeply intimate account of this history, through Samaha’s obsessive chronicling of the people and places around him. 
The invention of digital photography was revolutionary, enabling faster, easier, and more spontaneous images; storage capacities that would have been previously unimaginable; and post-processing that could distort or change the image entirely. Samaha exploited these attributes to create an archive of over a million photographs from his time working as a TWA flight attendant, DJ, and Kodak employee. These archives include the very first digital photographs of a cat, a dinner party, and a couple gazing at their own image instantaneously captured into the screen of a Digital Storage Unit. These “firsts” are shown alongside vitrines of ephemera and every digital camera he has used.
Even when abstract and experimental, Samaha’s work always remains personal. A hallway installation displays irregular, overlapping snapshots that form a dynamic, panoramic overview of Mondo 107, a weekly party he produced and DJed for five years at The Greatest Bar on Earth, on the 107th floor of New York’s One World Trade Center. The last photos of Mondo 107 were taken just days before the building was destroyed on September 11th, 2001. Around the corner hang Samaha’s portraits of friends lost to AIDS, printed on paper with inks that dry slowly over time, leaving the images streaked. Nearby, another series of photographs show the manipulated faces of Viennese transit riders, taken from seventy hours of video and subsequently scanned, cropped, projected onto a mirror, then re-photographed.
As one of the medium’s first adopters, Samaha knew digital photography since its birth, and was able to realize its immense potential when most analog photographers and the marketplace regarded it with doubt and suspicion. As he has seen this technology grow from something scarce to something widely accessible, his work stands out as singular. 
Lucien Samaha: A History of Digital Photography is made possible with generous support from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. This exhibition is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
#ahistoryofdigitalphotography
About the Artist 
Lucien Samaha (b. 1958, Beirut) is a New York-based photographer whose work has been shown internationally, including in exhibitions at the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt and at the Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland. He was a finalist for the 2004 Nam June Paik Award. After his time at TWA, Samaha worked for Eastman Kodak Company and then as a DJ on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center, continuing to document his hours at work and his personal life.

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Lucien Samaha: A History of Digital Photography

<div>Jaimie Warren is a multidisciplinary artist and the Co-Director and Co-Creator of the community arts project and fake public access tv show Whoop Dee Doo. Warren is a NYFA Fellow and has been awarded residencies with the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, BRICworkspace, Abrons AIRspace, and American Medium. Warren is the recipient of the Baum Award and is featured in Art21’s documentary series “New York Close Up.”</div>
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<div>Warren has taught workshops with the Museum of Modern Art, the Art21 Education Department, the Museum of Art &amp; Design, the Brooklyn Arts Council SU-CASA Program, NurtureArt, Dia: Beacon, and Abrons Arts Center. They received a U.S. Presidential Teaching Award, presented by Barack Obama in 2013.</div>

Jaimie Warren

LJ Roberts lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and creates large-scale textile installations, intricate embroideries, artist books, and collages. Their work investigates the overlaps of queer and trans politics, activism, protest, narrative, and craft. Roberts’s work has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, San Francisco, CA; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; The 8th Floor, New York, NY; Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA; the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY; the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA; the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL; the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, CA; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA; the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin, ME; and the Museum of the City of New York, NY. Roberts has been the recipient of the Fountainhead Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University and residencies at IASPIS-Stockholm, the MacDowell Colony, QueensLab, Ox-Bow School of Art, ACRE, the Textile Arts Center, and the Bag Factory in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2015, Roberts was one of nine recipients of the White House Champions of Change Award for LGBTQI Artists.

LJ Roberts

Jenny Perlin is an artist working between Brooklyn and Berlin, Germany. Her practice in 16mm film, video, and drawing works with and against the documentary tradition, incorporating innovative stylistic techniques to emphasize issues of truth, misunderstanding, and personal history. Her projects look closely at the ways in which social machinations are reflected in the smallest fragments of daily life. In her films, Perlin often combines handwritten text and drawn images, embracing the technical flaws of analog technologies.

Jenny Perlin

Hypercomf is a multidisciplinary, conceptual design identity, materialized as a fictitious company profile. Founded in 2017 by artists Ioannis Koliopoulos and Paola Palavidi and based out of Greece, Hypercomf produces site- and time-specific projects. Focused on collaborations with other artists, their main research themes are organic and digital networks and information, man-machine duality, comfort and discomfort. This research results in films, audiovisual installations, costumes, tapestries, multi-functional wearables, and discomforting soft seating spaces.
Hypercomf is a utopian business and production model evolving through a developing, impromptu narrative, created to investigate the state of self-branding and living the act of persuasion, using humor and all the necessary qualities to accommodate and bewilder.

Hypercomf's residency is made possible with support of Outset Contemporary Art Fund (Greece).

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Rachel Stern (b. 1989, NYC) is a photographer whose work considers the intersection of beauty and power. Using materials culled from suburban strip malls she creates images which enter into an accessible discourse and, in the spirit of ‘bread and roses’, demand immediate access to beauty. Her work is a kitsch paradise, a queer-washed history, and an attempt at hope. She received her BFA in Photography and the History of Art and Visual Culture in 2011 from the Rhode Island School of Design, attended Skowhegan in 2014, and graduated from Columbia University in 2016 with an MFA in Visual Arts.

Rachel Stern 

Maia Chao is an interdisciplinary artist from Providence, RI. Chao has shown at the Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown Art Museum, Brown University, RISD Museum, Tufts University Art Galleries, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery at Parsons. She has been commissioned by The Shed, The New School, and the Center for Reconciliation in Rhode Island. Chao has been a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, served as Andrew W. Mellon Artist in Residence at Haverford College, and received a Van Lier Fellowship from the Asian American Arts Alliance of NYC. A Fulbright grantee, Chao holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is co-creator of Look at Art. Get Paid. She was an artist in residence at Pioneer Works (2019-20). She is currently faculty at RISD Sculpture.

Maia Chao

Jordan Harper White is a Creative Director and Founder of TIME WITH SPACE, a Manhattan think tank experimenting in technology and social messaging. Inspired by physical space, relational identity, and reconstructive storytelling in the digital age, Jordan is contributing to the exchange of multi-sensory ideas that transcend subculture and mainstream norms. While in residence, White will develop “Invisible Victims," an AR app to visualize the impacts of gun violence and how that relates to geographical proximity to trauma centers. The goal is to provide community members, activists, researchers, civic leaders, and futurists with a unique, creative experience that contextualizes the problem for the use data in designing smarter cities

Jordan Harper White

Surabhi Saraf is a media artist and founder of Centre for Emotional Materiality. Her practice explores our complex relationship with technology through multimedia works. Saraf is the recipient of the Eureka Fellowship Award, the Djerassi Resident Artist Award, and the Artist + Process + Ideas Residency. She has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke and Hosfelt Gallery. She has performed at the Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Biennial, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, NETMAGE 10 International Live Media Festival, and Soundwave Biennial ((5)), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Asian Art Museum. Her videos have been shown at Times Square, Blanton Museum, the Hunter Museum of American Art among others.

Surabhi Saraf

Mimi Onuoha is a Nigerian-American artist and researcher whose work highlights cultural contradictions within applications of technology. Her multimedia practice focuses on the ways in which people are differently abstracted, represented, and missed by data and digital systems. She has spoken and exhibited domestically and abroad in venues like Mao Jihong Arts Foundation (Chengdu) and Le Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), and La Gaitê Lyrique (Paris). Her writing has appeared in Quartz, Nichons-nous Dans L'Internet, FiveThirtyEight, and K. Verlag. In 2014 she was selected to be in the inaugural class of Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellows, and in 2017 she was nominated as a Technical.ly Brooklyn Artist of the Year.

Most recently, she was the 2018-19 Creative-in-Reference at Olin College of Engineering.

Mimi Onuoha

Grayson Earle is a new media artist and educator. He has worked as a Visiting Professor at Oberlin College and the New York City College of Technology. He is the co-creator of <a href="https://bailbloc.thenewinquiry.com/about.html">Bail Bloc</a> and a member of The Illuminator art collective. Recent displays of his work include Kate Voss Galerie and the Brooklyn Museum. He has presented his work and research at The Whitney Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, Radical Networks, the Magnum Foundation, and Open Engagement.

Grayson Earle

Aki Onda is an artist, composer, and curator.  He creates compositions, performances, and visual artworks from those sound memories, and he is particularly known for his “Cassette Memories” —works compiled from a “sound diary” of field-recordings collected by using the cassette Walkman over a span of last three decades. Onda has presented his work at institutions and festivals including The Kitchen, MoMA, P.S.1 MOMA, REDCAT, Time-Based Art Festival, Images Festival, documenta 14, Louvre Museum, Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Cartier, Présences électronique, Argos, Bozar, ICA London, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Nam June Paik Art Center, Sound Live Tokyo, and many others.

Aki Onda

A preview and discussion of Retro Tech, a new YouTube Originals series starring Marques Brownlee. In the show Marques and special guests explore the classic tech products that changed the world forever.

Retro Tech Screening

YouTube Learning presents a one-day only interactive exhibit featuring some of the greatest vintage tech-driven products that defined pop culture and changed the world as we know it. This exhibit celebrates the launch of Retro Tech, a new YouTube Originals series with YouTube creator Marques Brownlee. In this new series, Brownlee and special guests unbox, review, and unearth the stories around nostalgic tech products exploring the history, impact on society, and innovators who made the product come to life.

Retro Tech

Stop by the converted vintage Airstream darkroom to learn more about FREE FILM : USA, take a workshop on silver gelatin printing, and meet the artists who just completed their four-month-long American photography road trip.

Free Film USA 

Join us in the Garden to gaze at the stars through telescopes with the Amateur Astronomers Association of NY.

Stargazing with the Amateur Astronomers Association

Draw what you think the AI-driven home assistant looks like. Using suggested prompts, speak to Alexa, then draw what you think they look like. Children and adults alike are highly encouraged to participate.

Draw What You Think Alexa Looks Like

The Fashion Tech Workshop is a design collective that represents innovation and creativity through fashion. We remix and remake clothing so that it’s comfortable, influential, and empowering. We are pioneers, reimagining the future by challenging the limitations placed on us by the status quo.

Fashion x Tech Workshop Presentation 2019

Join the students and teachers of the Beacon after school program in collaboration with Pioneer Works for an evening of arts and crafts. This showcase is an opportunity for the community to see the students’ in class projects and give the students a chance to teach their family, friends, and neighbors what they learned during Out of the Black Box, a workshop series which helps children in primary school uncover the magical logic of electronic circuits through art-making.

Out of the Black Box: Showcase

Through a multimedia installation, publication, and website, Visual Arts residents Hypercomf explore the urban ecosystem via interactions between humans and urbanophile organisms.

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Photographer Kaja Silverman re-interprets the Ten Bridesmaids parable, which connects preparedness and the second coming, as a description of the advent of the photograph. Inspired by Silverman, Visual Arts Resident Rachel Stern re-interprets this parable yet again using her own family and friends.

GIVE THE FOOLISH FIRE

Join Visual Arts Resident Maia Chao in a marathon reading of her own acceptance and rejection letters. Guests will be invited to read one of Chao&#8217;s letters aloud, read their own, or just listen.

Acceptance & Rejection with Maia Chao

Award-winning online radio station 8 Ball Radio is taking over our Media Lab. After their live DJ set, listen to their livestream of the concert at 7pm at 8ballradio.nyc

8 Ball Radio

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 brings together three decades of the artist’s work—a time period that corresponds with the rise of digital photography; in 1990, Samaha was the inaugural recipient of Kodak’s Professional Photography Division scholarship, becoming the first person to use Kodak’s DCS 100 Professional Digital Camera System outside the factory floor. Since then, the artist’s pioneering experiments with the form have reflected this radical new era of image-making. This exhibition gives us a deeply intimate account of this history, through Samaha’s obsessive chronicling of the people and places around him.

The invention of digital photography was revolutionary, enabling faster, easier, and more spontaneous images; storage capacities that would have been previously unimaginable; and post-processing that could distort or change the image entirely. Samaha exploited these attributes to create an archive of over a million photographs from his time working as a TWA flight attendant, DJ, and Kodak employee. These archives include the very first digital photographs of a cat, a dinner party, and a couple gazing at their own image instantaneously captured into the screen of a Digital Storage Unit. These “firsts” are shown alongside vitrines of ephemera and every digital camera he has used.

Even when abstract and experimental, Samaha’s work always remains personal. A hallway installation displays irregular, overlapping snapshots that form a dynamic, panoramic overview of Mondo 107, a weekly party he produced and DJed for five years at The Greatest Bar on Earth, on the 107th floor of New York’s One World Trade Center. The last photos of Mondo 107 were taken just days before the building was destroyed on September 11th, 2001. Around the corner hang Samaha’s portraits of friends lost to AIDS, printed on paper with inks that dry slowly over time, leaving the images streaked. Nearby, another series of photographs show the manipulated faces of Viennese transit riders, taken from seventy hours of video and subsequently scanned, cropped, projected onto a mirror, then re-photographed.

As one of the medium’s first adopters, Samaha knew digital photography since its birth, and was able to realize its immense potential when most analog photographers and the marketplace regarded it with doubt and suspicion. As he has seen this technology grow from something scarce to something widely accessible, his work stands out as singular.


 is made possible with generous support from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. This exhibition is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

 (b. 1958, Beirut) is a New York-based photographer whose work has been shown internationally, including in exhibitions at the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt and at the Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland. He was a finalist for the 2004 Nam June Paik Award. After his time at TWA, Samaha worked for Eastman Kodak Company and then as a DJ on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center, continuing to document his hours at work and his personal life.

A History of Digital Photography

Lucien Samaha’s A History of Digital Photography brings together three decades of the artist&#8217;s work—a time period that corresponds with the rise of digital photography; in 1990, Samaha was the inaugural recipient of Kodak’s Professional Photography Division scholarship, becoming the first person to use Kodak’s DCS 100 Professional Digital Camera System outside the factory floor. Since then, the artist’s pioneering experiments with the form have reflected this radical new era of image-making. This exhibition gives us a deeply intimate account of this history, through Samaha’s obsessive chronicling of the people and places around him. 
The invention of digital photography was revolutionary, enabling faster, easier, and more spontaneous images; storage capacities that would have been previously unimaginable; and post-processing that could distort or change the image entirely. Samaha exploited these attributes to create an archive of over a million photographs from his time working as a TWA flight attendant, DJ, and Kodak employee. These archives include the very first digital photographs of a cat, a dinner party, and a couple gazing at their own image instantaneously captured into the screen of a Digital Storage Unit. These “firsts” are shown alongside vitrines of ephemera and every digital camera he has used.
Even when abstract and experimental, Samaha’s work always remains personal. A hallway installation displays irregular, overlapping snapshots that form a dynamic, panoramic overview of Mondo 107, a weekly party he produced and DJed for five years at The Greatest Bar on Earth, on the 107th floor of New York’s One World Trade Center. The last photos of Mondo 107 were taken just days before the building was destroyed on September 11th, 2001. Around the corner hang Samaha’s portraits of friends lost to AIDS, printed on paper with inks that dry slowly over time, leaving the images streaked. Nearby, another series of photographs show the manipulated faces of Viennese transit riders, taken from seventy hours of video and subsequently scanned, cropped, projected onto a mirror, then re-photographed.
As one of the medium’s first adopters, Samaha knew digital photography since its birth, and was able to realize its immense potential when most analog photographers and the marketplace regarded it with doubt and suspicion. As he has seen this technology grow from something scarce to something widely accessible, his work stands out as singular. 
Lucien Samaha: A History of Digital Photography is made possible with generous support from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. This exhibition is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
#ahistoryofdigitalphotography
About the Artist 
Lucien Samaha (b. 1958, Beirut) is a New York-based photographer whose work has been shown internationally, including in exhibitions at the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt and at the Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland. He was a finalist for the 2004 Nam June Paik Award. After his time at TWA, Samaha worked for Eastman Kodak Company and then as a DJ on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center, continuing to document his hours at work and his personal life.

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Lucien Samaha’s A History of Digital Photography brings together three decades of the artist&#8217;s work—a time period that corresponds with the rise of digital photography; in 1990, Samaha was the inaugural recipient of Kodak’s Professional Photography Division scholarship, becoming the first person to use Kodak’s DCS 100 Professional Digital Camera System outside the factory floor. Since then, the artist’s pioneering experiments with the form have reflected this radical new era of image-making. This exhibition gives us a deeply intimate account of this history, through Samaha’s obsessive chronicling of the people and places around him. 
The invention of digital photography was revolutionary, enabling faster, easier, and more spontaneous images; storage capacities that would have been previously unimaginable; and post-processing that could distort or change the image entirely. Samaha exploited these attributes to create an archive of over a million photographs from his time working as a TWA flight attendant, DJ, and Kodak employee. These archives include the very first digital photographs of a cat, a dinner party, and a couple gazing at their own image instantaneously captured into the screen of a Digital Storage Unit. These “firsts” are shown alongside vitrines of ephemera and every digital camera he has used.
Even when abstract and experimental, Samaha’s work always remains personal. A hallway installation displays irregular, overlapping snapshots that form a dynamic, panoramic overview of Mondo 107, a weekly party he produced and DJed for five years at The Greatest Bar on Earth, on the 107th floor of New York’s One World Trade Center. The last photos of Mondo 107 were taken just days before the building was destroyed on September 11th, 2001. Around the corner hang Samaha’s portraits of friends lost to AIDS, printed on paper with inks that dry slowly over time, leaving the images streaked. Nearby, another series of photographs show the manipulated faces of Viennese transit riders, taken from seventy hours of video and subsequently scanned, cropped, projected onto a mirror, then re-photographed.
As one of the medium’s first adopters, Samaha knew digital photography since its birth, and was able to realize its immense potential when most analog photographers and the marketplace regarded it with doubt and suspicion. As he has seen this technology grow from something scarce to something widely accessible, his work stands out as singular. 
Lucien Samaha: A History of Digital Photography is made possible with generous support from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. This exhibition is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
#ahistoryofdigitalphotography
About the Artist 
Lucien Samaha (b. 1958, Beirut) is a New York-based photographer whose work has been shown internationally, including in exhibitions at the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt and at the Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland. He was a finalist for the 2004 Nam June Paik Award. After his time at TWA, Samaha worked for Eastman Kodak Company and then as a DJ on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center, continuing to document his hours at work and his personal life.

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Jaimie Warren is a multidisciplinary artist and the Co-Director and Co-Creator of the community arts project and fake public access tv show 

. Warren is a NYFA Fellow and has been awarded residencies with the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, BRICworkspace, Abrons AIRspace, and American Medium. Warren is the recipient of the Baum Award and is featured in Art21’s documentary series “New York Close Up.”Warren has taught workshops with the Museum of Modern Art, the Art21 Education Department, the Museum of Art & Design, the Brooklyn Arts Council SU-CASA Program, NurtureArt, Dia: Beacon, and Abrons Arts Center. They received a U.S. Presidential Teaching Award, presented by Barack Obama in 2013.

<div>Jaimie Warren is a multidisciplinary artist and the Co-Director and Co-Creator of the community arts project and fake public access tv show Whoop Dee Doo. Warren is a NYFA Fellow and has been awarded residencies with the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, BRICworkspace, Abrons AIRspace, and American Medium. Warren is the recipient of the Baum Award and is featured in Art21’s documentary series “New York Close Up.”</div>
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<div>Warren has taught workshops with the Museum of Modern Art, the Art21 Education Department, the Museum of Art &amp; Design, the Brooklyn Arts Council SU-CASA Program, NurtureArt, Dia: Beacon, and Abrons Arts Center. They received a U.S. Presidential Teaching Award, presented by Barack Obama in 2013.</div>

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LJ Roberts lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and creates large-scale textile installations, intricate embroideries, artist books, and collages. Their work investigates the overlaps of queer and trans politics, activism, protest, narrative, and craft. Roberts’s work has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, San Francisco, CA; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; The 8th Floor, New York, NY; Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA; the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY; the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA; the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL; the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, CA; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA; the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin, ME; and the Museum of the City of New York, NY. Roberts has been the recipient of the Fountainhead Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University and residencies at IASPIS-Stockholm, the MacDowell Colony, QueensLab, Ox-Bow School of Art, ACRE, the Textile Arts Center, and the Bag Factory in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2015, Roberts was one of nine recipients of the White House Champions of Change Award for LGBTQI Artists.

LJ Roberts lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and creates large-scale textile installations, intricate embroideries, artist books, and collages. Their work investigates the overlaps of queer and trans politics, activism, protest, narrative, and craft. Roberts’s work has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, San Francisco, CA; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; The 8th Floor, New York, NY; Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA; the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY; the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA; the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL; the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, CA; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA; the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin, ME; and the Museum of the City of New York, NY. Roberts has been the recipient of the Fountainhead Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University and residencies at IASPIS-Stockholm, the MacDowell Colony, QueensLab, Ox-Bow School of Art, ACRE, the Textile Arts Center, and the Bag Factory in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2015, Roberts was one of nine recipients of the White House Champions of Change Award for LGBTQI Artists.

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Jenny Perlin is an artist working between Brooklyn and Berlin, Germany. Her practice in 16mm film, video, and drawing works with and against the documentary tradition, incorporating innovative stylistic techniques to emphasize issues of truth, misunderstanding, and personal history. Her projects look closely at the ways in which social machinations are reflected in the smallest fragments of daily life. In her films, Perlin often combines handwritten text and drawn images, embracing the technical flaws of analog technologies.

Jenny Perlin is an artist working between Brooklyn and Berlin, Germany. Her practice in 16mm film, video, and drawing works with and against the documentary tradition, incorporating innovative stylistic techniques to emphasize issues of truth, misunderstanding, and personal history. Her projects look closely at the ways in which social machinations are reflected in the smallest fragments of daily life. In her films, Perlin often combines handwritten text and drawn images, embracing the technical flaws of analog technologies.

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Hypercomf is a multidisciplinary, conceptual design identity, materialized as a fictitious company profile. Founded in 2017 by artists Ioannis Koliopoulos and Paola Palavidi and based out of Greece, Hypercomf produces site- and time-specific projects. Focused on collaborations with other artists, their main research themes are organic and digital networks and information, man-machine duality, comfort and discomfort. This research results in films, audiovisual installations, costumes, tapestries, multi-functional wearables, and discomforting soft seating spaces.
Hypercomf is a utopian business and production model evolving through a developing, impromptu narrative, created to investigate the state of self-branding and living the act of persuasion, using humor and all the necessary qualities to accommodate and bewilder.

Hypercomf’s residency is made possible with support of Outset Contemporary Art Fund (Greece).

Hypercomf is a multidisciplinary, conceptual design identity, materialized as a fictitious company profile. Founded in 2017 by artists Ioannis Koliopoulos and Paola Palavidi and based out of Greece, Hypercomf produces site- and time-specific projects. Focused on collaborations with other artists, their main research themes are organic and digital networks and information, man-machine duality, comfort and discomfort. This research results in films, audiovisual installations, costumes, tapestries, multi-functional wearables, and discomforting soft seating spaces. 
Hypercomf is a utopian business and production model evolving through a developing, impromptu narrative, created to investigate the state of self-branding and living the act of persuasion, using humor and all the necessary qualities to accommodate and bewilder.
Hypercomf&#8217;s residency is made possible with support of Outset Contemporary Art Fund (Greece).
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Hypercomf is a multidisciplinary, conceptual design identity, materialized as a fictitious company profile. Founded in 2017 by artists Ioannis Koliopoulos and Paola Palavidi and based out of Greece, Hypercomf produces site- and time-specific projects. Focused on collaborations with other artists, their main research themes are organic and digital networks and information, man-machine duality, comfort and discomfort. This research results in films, audiovisual installations, costumes, tapestries, multi-functional wearables, and discomforting soft seating spaces. 
Hypercomf is a utopian business and production model evolving through a developing, impromptu narrative, created to investigate the state of self-branding and living the act of persuasion, using humor and all the necessary qualities to accommodate and bewilder.
Hypercomf&#8217;s residency is made possible with support of Outset Contemporary Art Fund (Greece).
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Rachel Stern (b. 1989, NYC) is a photographer whose work considers the intersection of beauty and power. Using materials culled from suburban strip malls she creates images which enter into an accessible discourse and, in the spirit of ‘bread and roses’, demand immediate access to beauty. Her work is a kitsch paradise, a queer-washed history, and an attempt at hope. She received her BFA in Photography and the History of Art and Visual Culture in 2011 from the Rhode Island School of Design, attended Skowhegan in 2014, and graduated from Columbia University in 2016 with an MFA in Visual Arts.

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Maia Chao is an interdisciplinary artist from Providence, RI. Chao has shown at the Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown Art Museum, Brown University, RISD Museum, Tufts University Art Galleries, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery at Parsons. She has been commissioned by The Shed, The New School, and the Center for Reconciliation in Rhode Island. Chao has been a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, served as Andrew W. Mellon Artist in Residence at Haverford College, and received a Van Lier Fellowship from the Asian American Arts Alliance of NYC. A Fulbright grantee, Chao holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is co-creator of Look at Art. Get Paid. She was an artist in residence at Pioneer Works (2019-20). She is currently faculty at RISD Sculpture.

Maia Chao is an interdisciplinary artist from Providence, RI. Chao has shown at the Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown Art Museum, Brown University, RISD Museum, Tufts University Art Galleries, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery at Parsons. She has been commissioned by The Shed, The New School, and the Center for Reconciliation in Rhode Island. Chao has been a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, served as Andrew W. Mellon Artist in Residence at Haverford College, and received a Van Lier Fellowship from the Asian American Arts Alliance of NYC. A Fulbright grantee, Chao holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is co-creator of Look at Art. Get Paid. She was an artist in residence at Pioneer Works (2019-20). She is currently faculty at RISD Sculpture.

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Jordan Harper White is a Creative Director and Founder of TIME WITH SPACE, a Manhattan think tank experimenting in technology and social messaging. Inspired by physical space, relational identity, and reconstructive storytelling in the digital age, Jordan is contributing to the exchange of multi-sensory ideas that transcend subculture and mainstream norms. While in residence, White will develop “Invisible Victims,” an AR app to visualize the impacts of gun violence and how that relates to geographical proximity to trauma centers. The goal is to provide community members, activists, researchers, civic leaders, and futurists with a unique, creative experience that contextualizes the problem for the use data in designing smarter cities

Jordan Harper White is a Creative Director and Founder of TIME WITH SPACE, a Manhattan think tank experimenting in technology and social messaging. Inspired by physical space, relational identity, and reconstructive storytelling in the digital age, Jordan is contributing to the exchange of multi-sensory ideas that transcend subculture and mainstream norms. While in residence, White will develop “Invisible Victims,&#8221; an AR app to visualize the impacts of gun violence and how that relates to geographical proximity to trauma centers. The goal is to provide community members, activists, researchers, civic leaders, and futurists with a unique, creative experience that contextualizes the problem for the use data in designing smarter cities

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Surabhi Saraf is a media artist and founder of Centre for Emotional Materiality. Her practice explores our complex relationship with technology through multimedia works. Saraf is the recipient of the Eureka Fellowship Award, the Djerassi Resident Artist Award, and the Artist + Process + Ideas Residency. She has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke and Hosfelt Gallery. She has performed at the Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Biennial, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, NETMAGE 10 International Live Media Festival, and Soundwave Biennial ((5)), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Asian Art Museum. Her videos have been shown at Times Square, Blanton Museum, the Hunter Museum of American Art among others.

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Mimi Onuoha is a Nigerian-American artist and researcher whose work highlights cultural contradictions within applications of technology. Her multimedia practice focuses on the ways in which people are differently abstracted, represented, and missed by data and digital systems. She has spoken and exhibited domestically and abroad in venues like Mao Jihong Arts Foundation (Chengdu) and Le Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), and La Gaitê Lyrique (Paris). Her writing has appeared in 

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Most recently, she was the 2018-19 Creative-in-Reference at Olin College of Engineering.

Mimi Onuoha is a Nigerian-American artist and researcher whose work highlights cultural contradictions within applications of technology. Her multimedia practice focuses on the ways in which people are differently abstracted, represented, and missed by data and digital systems. She has spoken and exhibited domestically and abroad in venues like Mao Jihong Arts Foundation (Chengdu) and Le Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), and La Gaitê Lyrique (Paris). Her writing has appeared in Quartz, Nichons-nous Dans L&#8217;Internet, FiveThirtyEight, and K. Verlag. In 2014 she was selected to be in the inaugural class of Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellows, and in 2017 she was nominated as a Technical.ly Brooklyn Artist of the Year.
Most recently, she was the 2018-19 Creative-in-Reference at Olin College of Engineering.

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Grayson Earle is a new media artist and educator. He has worked as a Visiting Professor at Oberlin College and the New York City College of Technology. He is the co-creator of 

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Grayson Earle is a new media artist and educator. He has worked as a Visiting Professor at Oberlin College and the New York City College of Technology. He is the co-creator of <a href="https://bailbloc.thenewinquiry.com/about.html">Bail Bloc</a> and a member of The Illuminator art collective. Recent displays of his work include Kate Voss Galerie and the Brooklyn Museum. He has presented his work and research at The Whitney Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, Radical Networks, the Magnum Foundation, and Open Engagement.

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Aki Onda is an artist, composer, and curator. He creates compositions, performances, and visual artworks from those sound memories, and he is particularly known for his “Cassette Memories” —works compiled from a “sound diary” of field-recordings collected by using the cassette Walkman over a span of last three decades. Onda has presented his work at institutions and festivals including The Kitchen, MoMA, P.S.1 MOMA, REDCAT, Time-Based Art Festival, Images Festival, documenta 14, Louvre Museum, Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Cartier, Présences électronique, Argos, Bozar, ICA London, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Nam June Paik Art Center, Sound Live Tokyo, and many others.

Aki Onda is an artist, composer, and curator.  He creates compositions, performances, and visual artworks from those sound memories, and he is particularly known for his “Cassette Memories” —works compiled from a “sound diary” of field-recordings collected by using the cassette Walkman over a span of last three decades. Onda has presented his work at institutions and festivals including The Kitchen, MoMA, P.S.1 MOMA, REDCAT, Time-Based Art Festival, Images Festival, documenta 14, Louvre Museum, Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Cartier, Présences électronique, Argos, Bozar, ICA London, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Nam June Paik Art Center, Sound Live Tokyo, and many others.

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Second Sundays

Second Sundays is a free event series that engages Pioneer Works disciplines through live music, food, artists’ open studios, and interactive programs.

Second Sundays is a free event series that engages Pioneer Works disciplines through live music, food, artists’ open studios, and interactive programs.

Second Sundays is a free event series that engages Pioneer Works disciplines through live music, food, artists’ open studios, and interactive programs.

Second Sundays: December 2019

December Second Sundays is made possible by YouTube Learning.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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