The legal rights that protect artwork primarily stem from the Copyright Act of 1976. In Section 107 of this act, there is a provision known as fair use…
Jussi Ängeslevä is an educator at the Berlin University of the Arts and Royal College of Arts in London whose research interests focus on the field of digital…
For this week’s interview, Katie Bell traveled to New York City again where she met with Fred Tomaselli at the James Cohan gallery and virtually streamed class. Tomaselli…
For my final project, I will like to study copyright law and the role Fair Use plays in the contemporary art dialogue. In particular, I would like to…
Victoria Fu is an artist based in San Diego who makes moving image installations using film and video. In creating her work, Fu weaves clips and sound from…
Adeze Wilford is an assistant curator at The Shed who recently curated Howardena Pindell: Rope/Fire/Water. This commission is a powerful video project that addresses the white supremacy and…
Diana Al-Hadid is a large-scale sculpture artist whose work is heavily inspired by those of the past. Overall, Diana’s talk sheds led light on the artist’s process and…
Out of all the interviews we have participated in so far, I would say that Hasan Elahi’s generated the most engaging and thought-provoking dialogue. Elahi is a media…
The New York Times is an independent journalism company that is dedicated to helping people understand the world. Through a series of videos, interviews, photographs, and opinion columns…
Merril Wagner is an abstract artist who is now retired from art making. When we met with her today over Zoom, her studio manager Lilly Pendry joined us…
Drew is an abstract sculptural artist whose work and process differ from the artists we have met with prior. Rather than drawing on his personal experiences, his visual…
Today we virutally visited Brie Ruais in her Brooklyn studio. Ruais is a sculpture artist whose works emulate those of performance art and investigates aesthetic relationships. Beginning with…
This week’s format of hosting guest speakers was a bit different than our previous interviews. Rather than having the industry professionals and students remain at home, Katie Bell…
This week’s guest speaker was Saisha Grayson, the curator of time-based media at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). Similar to Holly Shen, a focal point of our…
Our first guest speaker was Holly Shen, the Deputy Director of the San Jose Museum of Art, a regional Modern and Contemporary art museum. With her extensive background…
In her article “Portrait of An Artist Not to Be Underestimated”, Howardena Pindell examines her 1990 mixed-media work “Scapegoat”. Here, Pindell contextualizes its creation, explaining how this installment…
