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Curated Art Exhibitions
& Citizen Forums

Juried, Local, National, and International

Using art to facilitate allegedly impossible cross-cultural conversations since 2017.

"Sean Spicer is Playing a Game With Reality."

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Contaminated:
Mental Illness & COVID

International juried exhibition & civic forum.

Online. (At the height of the pandemic.) 
May 2020.

 

In this time of uncertainty, COVID-19 -- both at its height and in its aftermath -- has contaminated everything: our homes, our lives, our communication, and even our shared reality. But how can we use art to cleanse and decontaminate our world of the “political plagues” --  cultural divisions, medical inequities, and digital pollution -- that COVID has called greater attention to?  In order to start disinfecting ourselves -- and re-constructing our shared humanity (and reality)  -- the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy and the Institute for Digital Humanity solicited submissions to our juried show “Contaminated.”  Focusing on how COVID-19 has invaded every aspect of our lives -- but curated to catalyze cross-cultural conversations on our post-COVID-19 existence  -- “Contaminated” was hosted (virtually and physically) on May 7th, 2020.

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Thank you to our partners: The Institute for Digital Humanity, North Central University, and Hamline University

IAA Zine Exchanges

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​Given the cheap material and simple production process, zine publication naturally lends itself to collaborative and creative expression.  The IAA has often used zine-making events and zine exchanges as opportunities to facilitate dialogue around issues related to public health, mental health, and cultural politics.   Zine events are a straightforward means for students and communities to playfully offer their own perspectives on issues they normally might not talk about with people they might not normally talk to.

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Thank you to our partners; Hamline University; North Central University; the Institute for Digital Humanity

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"Sean Spicer is Playing a Game With Reality."

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All Bullets Shatter:

Untold Stories of Gun Violence and Trauma
Minneapolis, MN and Online.  May 2022.
 

Over 20,000 bullets were fired in Minneapolis in 2021. These stories of gun violence are always “counted” in fatalities and injuries. But behind the numbers, there is always an “uncounted” human story of trauma for victims and their families that can’t be qualified

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Thank you to our partners:
Guns Down. Love Up.; Project Minnesota; The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives; Institute for Digital Humanity; Second Chance MN; the Urban Educators; North Suburban Center for the Arts; Ohio State; Portland State; George State; Pittsburgh University Prison Writing Project.

Plugging In:
Tech & Surveillance

Minneapolis, MN and Online.  October 2021.

As with every other part of society, technology is changing public safety forever.  The need to ensure basic principles of human and civil rights in the mechanisms of digital public safety has never been more pressing. The IAA and its partners participated in a public discussion and technology workshop focused on surveillance, privacy rights, racial justice, and digital ethics. The event was hosted on October 20, 2021.

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Thank you to our partners:

ACLU MN; Reclaim the Block; Safety Not Surveillance Coalition; Institute for Digital Humanity, Councilman Simon Troutman, Councilman Steve Fletcher.

Digital Rights are Civil Rights: Race and Tech

International juried art exhibition and civic forum.
Minneapolis, MN and online.  February 2021.

The murder of George Floyd made it clear to the world that systemic racism is a life or death issue for people of color in our country.  This issue has only become more pressing in light of recent technological developments:  racist facial recognition software; predictive policing programs that target minorities;  and discriminatory algorithms (in employment, healthcare, education, and criminal justice) that violate our privacy, threaten free speech, and replace human judgment with encoded systemic inequity.
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Thank you to our partners;

ACLU MN; Native Youth Arts Collective; North Central University; the Institute for Digital Humanity; the POSTME Coalition; and City Councilman Steve Fletcher. 

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