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American Artist’s multidisciplinary work considers the intersections of technology, race, and knowledge production.
Since legally changing their name in 2013, they have examined the boundaries and fissures of subject formation under racial capitalism. Their recent projects draw inspiration from Octavia E. Butler’s speculative fiction—what Artist calls “empathetic yet stark narratives about humanity’s perilous patterns and blindspots.” Like Butler, Artist crafts “thought experiments” that stretch and reimagine the terms of the present. Resonances with Butler are thematic as well as personal: Both are among the Black diaspora in Los Angeles (descended from families who fled the racial terror of the Jim Crow South), and both attended the same Pasadena high school.
Several of Artist’s recent works reference Butler’s “Earthseed” novels, Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998),…
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American Artist’s multidisciplinary work considers the intersections of technology, race, and knowledge production.
Since legally changing their name in 2013, they have examined the boundaries and fissures of subject formation under racial capitalism. Their recent projects draw inspiration from Octavia E. Butler’s speculative fiction—what Artist calls “empathetic yet stark narratives about humanity’s perilous patterns and blindspots.” Like Butler, Artist crafts “thought experiments” that stretch and reimagine the terms of the present. Resonances with Butler are thematic as well as personal: Both are among the Black diaspora in Los Angeles (descended from families who fled the racial terror of the Jim Crow South), and both attended the same Pasadena high school.
Several of Artist’s recent works reference Butler’s “Earthseed” novels, Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998),…
