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Agora Digital Art

The Network for Women in Digital Arts Promoting women’s creativity Agora Digital empowers the digital artists’ community by promoting and sharing great artworks made by women in the New Media Art. Agora Digital Art is a certified social enterprise that initiates dialogue around Digital Art and Technology. We are building a vibrant community to embrace the Digital Art experience, to explore the new developments related to art and technology, to engage with a growing Digital Art net Stay tuned, subscribe to our e-news: https://agoradigital.art

  1. 22.07.01 Agora Podcast: Gertrūda Gilytė presents "Neuroplasticity or I Love You Gertrūda"

    02/07/2022

    22.07.01 Agora Podcast: Gertrūda Gilytė presents "Neuroplasticity or I Love You Gertrūda"

    Residency Curator: Elizabeth Richardson Learn about this whimsical residency ►► here Join us for the Hubs Party on 19 July 2022, at 6 pm BST | 7 pm CEST Have you ever thought of knitting a love letter to yourself? Gertrūda Gilytė’s durational project: Neuroplasticity or I Love You Gertrūda, does just that. Gilytė merges knitting and TikTok-based video performance to explore self-help discourse and the rise of online mindfulness trends. Gertrūda Gilytė uses personal development as performance, exploring how self-development practices and personal vulnerabilities may be explored as an artistic tool. Neuroplasticity or I Love You Gertrūda examines personal development through knitting, a craft and method that has proven health and wellbeing benefits, including improving neuroplasticity, lowering blood pressure and slowing the onset of dementia, as well as reducing loneliness, anxiety and depression. “Neuroplasticity” refers to the means by which neural networks may be formed or reinforced through new skills or movements. This project represents Gilytė’s desire to also explore “the object” and its place within art history. Gilytė has made a daily commitment to knitting “I love you”s into neon green scarves and documenting her process on TikTok until one of her scarves is sold in the art market. Her definitive goal of attributing art market value to a self-improvement object seeks to reflect the means by which personal development practices are becoming increasingly commodified. This critique is amplified through the use of TikTok as a performance space and tool, in which Gilytė submerges within a narrative of influencer culture and mainstream personal development trends. Gilytė documents this process through daily TikTok videos that take place in various performative settings, accompanied by voice-overs that explore both her personal development and the performative aspects of a digital mindfulness persona. The artist questions the sincerity of her performance throughout, as Gilytė illuminates in one TikTok: “knitting is somehow seen as being a really wholesome activity, domestic and fragile maybe, […] but does it remain the same way if it’s purely performative? If, for example, I’m not wholesome at all but want to trick you, to appear this way?” About the artist Gertrūda Gilytė (born 1992, Lithuania) is a New Media artist whose work revolves around the theme of “personal development as a performative practice”. In 2022, she finished her MA in Art in Context at the University of Arts, Berlin. In 2016, she graduated from Sculpture Department at Vilnius Academy of Arts.  In 2015, she graduated in Political Science at Vilnius University. #AgoraDigitalArt #GertrudaGilyte #ILoveYouGertruda #Neuroplasticity #WomenInNewMedia

    15 min
  2. 22.03.10 Agora Residency: X-pop by Leah Roh

    17/03/2022

    22.03.10 Agora Residency: X-pop by Leah Roh

    For this #womensmonth, discover the artist residency project X-pop by @leahroh ►► More info  What comes into your mind when you think about Oriental women? Are they smiley discreet yellow faces, are they K-pop chic or cynical like in the Squid Game series? In this work called X-pop, Leah Roh confronts the covert and overt racist depictions of East-Asian archetypes from pop culture, in a gamified satirical web-based VR experience. The viewer will experience the X-pop, a virtual celebration of Hollywood’s “Asian-American” community, in Mozilla Hubs. About the artist Leah Roh (b. 1991 – USA) is a Brooklyn-based 3D artist and educator. She builds computer-generated experiences that explore the ways in which interactive technologies can bridge the gap between new media and pop culture. Through 3D animation and game engine software, Leah designs engaging experiences based on her personal relationship with overt and covert systemic racism and sexism as a Korean-American woman, stemming from the inequities in representation in mainstream media. Her practice examines how virtual mediums can cultivate accessible spaces for cultural engagement and be applied for experiential education and storytelling. She is a NEW INC alum and currently teaches Experiential Art at Pratt Institute’s New Media programme and 3D design at NYU’s Integrated Design Media programme. About @AgoraDigitalArt Agora Digital Art is a certified social enterprise. We are one of the most dynamic creative hubs in London. We champion artists who have something to say. We bring diverse communities and artists together. With your generous support, we will build the best digital network. ►► Donate via Paypal #leahroh #3Dartist #xpop #kpop #kdrama #koreanamerican #madeinusa #womenindigitalart #AgoraDigitalArt #internationalwomensday #venusofmetaverse

    47 min
  3. 13/03/2022

    22.03.13 Recentering #2: Vanessa Murrell from DATEAGLE ART

    Hosted by Bethan Carrick @bethanelericarrick Vanessa talks to Beth about DATEAGLE ART’s recent projects and discusses the everyday considerations that curators and gallerists go through to reach sustainable goals. Revealing how exhibition-making is not a simple path from artist to viewer, instead of being a constant mediation of multiple webs, Vanessa considers the path to achieving sustainability through curation. DATEAGLE ART is a London-based contemporary art platform highlighting emerging and under-represented artists, founded in 2017 by curatorial duo Martin Mayorga and Vanessa Murrell. The pair have established a diverse, creative community through their intimate approach to connecting with artists. Cultivating online journal content, studio visits, interviews, offline exhibitions and public programming, the platform engages in an extensive discourse, observed through the lens of the artists they work with. Originating from Spain, Vanessa Murrell is an art curator, educator and writer based in London. Concerned with the inclusivity of emerging artists and neglected sectors, she co-founded the contemporary art platform DATEAGLE ART in 2017. She has interviewed 150+ UK artists, co-curated exhibitions introducing 50+ artists and expanded her activities with commissions, exhibitions, educational initiatives and public programming. Her texts have been published in  Coeval, Dazed, émergent, Flash Art, METAL, Ocula, Soft Punk and Something Curated About @AgoraDigitalArt Agora Digital Art is a certified social enterprise. We are one of the most dynamic creative hubs in London. We champion artists who have something to say. We bring diverse communities and artists together. With your generous support, we will build the best digital network. ►► Donate via Paypal #DigitalArt #NewMediaArt #AgoraDigitalArt #Gateagleart

    28 min

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The Network for Women in Digital Arts Promoting women’s creativity Agora Digital empowers the digital artists’ community by promoting and sharing great artworks made by women in the New Media Art. Agora Digital Art is a certified social enterprise that initiates dialogue around Digital Art and Technology. We are building a vibrant community to embrace the Digital Art experience, to explore the new developments related to art and technology, to engage with a growing Digital Art net Stay tuned, subscribe to our e-news: https://agoradigital.art

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