Residues

For multimedia artist Carrie Wang, mistranslations have become an art form.

How Le'Andra LeSeur turns history's weight into embodied art.

Artist Alejandro García Contreras is a child of myths modern and ancient.

The radical quintet, born of protest, who've never sacrificed their message.

Angelo Madsen Minax gets beneath the skin.

The electronic duo HxH on following their sonic impulses.

Jenson Leonard's disembodied King of Pop channels Black dystopia.

Autumn Knight's performance leaves space for chance.

On "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa," the white wander, and finding a part of myself.

A new video work on how machines (mis)translate immigrant lives.

A new book charts the sweeping, fluid––and even wet––history of digital feminism.

Through Dawn Kim’s enigmatic photographs, novelist Lynne Tillman ponders the very act of looking.

What can the art of machinima teach us about playing a game outside its own rules?

"Diaspora is oceanic. State-based consolidation of identity is an arid landscape in ruins."

An interpreter and an artist on Japanese-English translation and interpreting for spirit over fidelity.

What—and whom—does technology recognize?

In a new screen-based experience, the artist and Pioneer Works Tech Resident stitches together sound, text, and complex emotions from the unresolved pandemic.

To coincide with a new exhibition and book, a sneak peek at the transformational stitch art of LJ Roberts.

Artist Sam Lavigne on how to derail your digital life.

Whether following a team of botanists or geriatric residents in a senior center, Fall 2020 Pioneer Works Visual Arts Resident Erin Johnson uses video to find beauty—and rebellion—in the power of the collective.

"Antidote" is an online environment and land acknowledgment that gives the "land" back to black freedom realities.

Former Pioneer Works Music Residents Amirtha Kidambi and Shayna Dunkelman sit down to discuss the music industry, its racial and gender dynamics, and how to re-envision its power structures.

Former Spring 2020 Pioneer Works Technology Resident Lai Yi Ohlsen discusses social media, collaboration, and the viral Black body with choreographer Marguerite Hemmings.

Fall 2020 Pioneer Works Technology Resident Umber Majeed uses her uncle’s tourism company, Trans-Pakistan, as a starting point to create alternative and speculative realities that question larger narratives around nationalism, capital, and Western influence.

Pioneer Works' Artistic Director, Gabriel Florenz, sits down to chat with Naeem Juwan on his departure from Spank Rock, settling into himself, and his new project, Startisha.

The transmedia artist and former technology resident is working to create a more compassionate today through the interrogation and development of AI systems.

Former Pioneer Works Tech Resident Ryan Kuo talks with Tommy Martinez about Faith, his “easily triggered” chatbot app.

The former Pioneer Works resident artist talks to Vivian Chui about anti-Asian harassment in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and his latest work breaking down male homosociality.

What frameworks shape our perspective of the world? Algorithms or poetics? Lai Yi Ohlsen shares her projects, code poems and 100 scores, and discusses how the frameworks of tech, poetry, and movement intersect.

The Pioneer Works residency alumnus and former intensive care nurse draws connections between art and medicine, and reflects on his ongoing endeavor to achieve balance.

Explore Fleshold Crossing, a virtual reality artwork in five parts by former Pioneer Works residents, Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, with developer Kenny Smith, and enriched with soundtracks by composer Andrew Clarke.

Alumni Resident Tahir Carl Karmali discusses the evolution of his project PAPERwork and how and why a project might re-enter your life at key moments.