January (is almost halfway over somehow...)

Hey hi hello!

We're getting settled in to the semester, and we have some updates for you!

Spring hours!

So far, we are set for the following hours this semester:

Monday 10:30 am - 2 pm
Tuesday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Thursday 10 am - 1 pm
Friday 10 am - 4 pm

As always, keep an eye on our Mastodon for updates or check our google calendar.

We are also hosting hours in the smaller, more curated pop-up space on main campus (CASE W250) - check out the CASE calendar as well.

Practitioners - in - Residence

The tail end of the spring semester is packed with visitors! Our first practitioner in residence comes at the end of February, and we'll be sharing project updates and events as we get closer to time. Check out everyone's bios in the meantime! We are so grateful to have Oisín Sheerin curating and coordinating this whole undertaking, and to everyone who shared their brilliant work with us. As always, we wish we could have accepted everyone...

Katherine Guinness

Katherine Guinness (she/her) is a theorist and historian of contemporary art. She is Assistant Professor of Critical Studies in the Department of Art at the University of Maryland, College Park. Previously, she was Assistant Professor and Director of Art History at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), where she also served as the academic director of the downtown Gallery of Contemporary Art (or GOCA). She is the author of Schizogensis: The Art of Rosemarie Trockel (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), co-author of The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube (Stanford University Press, 2024), and co-author of Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art (Intellect, 2024). She has been a guest editor for Art Journal Open and is the co-founder of FEARS, the Female Emerging Artist Residency Series, at UCCS.

Clemens Schöll

Clemens Schöll (he/him) is a media artist, media theorist and software engineer. He focuses on the implications of technology, especially automation, on our heavily mediated society. Schöll’s work brings systemic and structural connections to the surface so that may be experienced, and thus changed. His works range from VR installations to net-art performances, incorporating kinetic elements which directly involve the viewer. His works have been shown at Chaos Communication Congress (2023), Centre Pompidou (2022), Kunsthalle Zürich (2022), Puppentheatermuseum (2020–22), ZAK Spandau (2020) and 48hNK (2019, 2020). Schöll has published, lectured and performed at Ballhaus Ost (2022), at Festpielhaus Hellerau (2022), in ARCH+ 245 (2021) and at the 36th CCC (2019). Together with Daniel Hengst he curated the media-critical exhibition "In VR we trust" for NRW Forum Düsseldorf (2021). Schöll is co-founder of the media art collective THIS IS FAKE as well as the Förderverein Palast der Republik e.V., where he is chairman of the board. Schöll studied fine art and media art at UdK Berlin (Meisterschüler, 2024), HGB Leipzig and FBAUL Lisbon after graduating with a BA in computer science from TU Berlin (2017).

Kamari Carter

Kamari Carter (he/him) is a New York-based artist working primarily with sound, video, installation, and performance. His practice circumvents materiality and familiarity through a variety of recording and amplification techniques to investigate notions such as space, systems of identity, oppression, control, and surveillance. Driven by the probative nature of perception, Carter’s work seeks to expand narrative structures through sonic stillness and found objects. His work has been exhibited at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL; Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum, Providence, RI; Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ; Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY; Wave Hill, New York; Fridman Gallery, New York; and Automata Arts, Los Angeles, among others, and has been featured in publications including Artnet, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, and Whitewall, among others. Carter holds a BFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and an MFA from Columbia University. Kamari Carter is represented by Microscope Gallery in New York City.

Switcheristic Telecommunications
in Collaboration with Jack B. Du

Switcheristic Telecommunications is an art and research duo established in 2020, consisting of Richard Lewei Huang (he/him, PhD candidate at University of Washington) and Yufeng Zhao (he/him, creative technologist at Brilliant.org, incoming MIT Media Lab student). Their practice explores Internet history via creative computing methods, with a focus on collecting and interpreting digital ephemera to find unexpected poetics in historical everyday artifacts. Their previous works include dir.pastinter.net, a searchable directory of historical URLs extracted from printed Internet directory books published in the 1990s-early 2000s; oldweb-cjk, a fork of Rhizome's oldweb.today project with added East Asian language support; and Banner Depot 2000, a multilingual archive of 1990s-early 2000s web banner ads. Through these projects, they have established a practice that stands at the intersection of digital preservation, historical research, and media art.

Jack B. Du (he/him) is an artist and researcher whose practice centers around the experimentation of code as a creative medium. His work often begins in code and ends on paper—through risograph prints, robotic and pen plotter drawings, and crafted forms such as paper cutouts and pop-up books. Notable works include Scribbot, a drawing robot that renders images with scribbly lines, and PAPERCUTTING.art, a web-based simulation of paper-cutting.

Isaac Schankler

Isaac Io Schankler (they/them) is a composer, accordionist, and electronic musician interested in how technology complicates the ways we create and consume music. Their music has been described as "beautiful, algorithmic, organic, dystopian" (I Care If You Listen) and “remarkable listening” (Sequenza21). They have collaborated with a variety of musicians and ensembles, including the Ray-Kallay Duo, Friction Quartet, the SPLICE Ensemble, Autoduplicity, Nouveau Classical Project, gnarwhallaby, the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, Lorelei Ensemble, Juventas New Music Ensemble, Nadia Shpachenko, Scott Worthington, and Meerenai Shim. Additionally, Schankler has written music for acclaimed video games like Ladykiller in a Bind and Analogue: A Hate Story. Schankler is the artistic director of the concert series People Inside Electronics, and Associate Professor of Music at Cal Poly Pomona.

Interested in volunteering?

If you're local to the MAL, we're looking for in-person volunteers! We're especially hoping to find folks who can host open house hours, but we'd also love to hear from you if you have repair skills. Fill out our volunteer interest form if this sounds like you...

Thanks for reading folks, that's all for now! Come visit us if you can -

MAL 🌈