For two years, Jason Lord has been wandering and gathering: images, sounds, thoughts, and discarded objects. Gathering is the culmination of 731 consecutive days of walking for at least five miles every day, regardless of weather or inclination.
Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Using critical wit and collaborative co-creation, her projects leverage open-source systems, shareware logic, and flows of capital, in order to investigate issues of economies and empire.
As an interdisciplinary artist, I pull inspiration from international politics and social movements with the goal of offering alternative perspectives based on research and engagement with the community. My artwork examines the political influences of borders, human rights, and refugee resettlement efforts.
Paul Mpagi Sepuya is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography and an Associate Professor in Media Arts at UC San Diego.
My work is centered around spaces that contribute to creations of community, personal identity, and lived experiences.
My work over the last four years has been influenced by ideas of familial fragmentation, the disintegration of identity, and emotional disembowelment through means of experimental photographic and printmaking processes.
In such an internationally-connected—even globally-connected—cultural and financial center as Augsburg in the early sixteenth century, what is the importance of the sense of place and locality generated by its citizens and artists, and what might we learn by drilling down to the street-level of activity and interaction taking place there?
