ART EXHIBITONS and CIVIC FORUMS

DR M AS CREATIVE DIRECTOR / CURATOR / DESIGNER / HOST

ARTS/CULTURE HOMEINSTALLATIONS
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You can't fix AI, our colleges, our democracy, free speech, disinformation, or privacy without fixing the arts and culture.

In this time of uncertainty, technology has contaminated everything: Our homes, our lives, our bodies, and even our shared reality.

My teams use art and aesthetic advocacy
to cleanse and decontaminate our world of the digital pollutions that are key to healing the country / the 21st century.

CREATIVE DIRECTOR / CO-FOUNDER

THE INSTITUTE FOR AESTHETIC ADVOCACY
2017-PRESENT

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR / DIRECTOR
SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, DIGITAL MEDIA,
& COMMUNICATION ARTS
NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY:
2018-2023


FOUNDER / ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DIVISION OF RHETORIC & DIGITAL ARTS
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY:
2011-2017


  • Designed to catalyze and curate allegedly impossible cross-cultural conversations.

  • JURIED and/or GRANT-FUNDED LOCAL, NATIONAL, and/or INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS and (always) CIVIC FORUMS:

    ACLU MINNESOTA 
    SAFETY NOT SURVEILLANCE COALITION
    RECLAIM THE BLOCK
    GUNS DOWN, LOVE UP
    LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD COMMUNITY
    LITTLE EARTH NATIVE YOUTH ARTS CENTER
    PROTECT MINNESOTA
    SECOND CHANCE COALITION
    NORTH SUBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    URBAN EDUCATORS NORTHEAST SCULPTURE FACTORY
    DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF LITERACY NARRATIVES
    NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
    HAMLINE UNIVERSITY




  • THANK YOU TO:
    THE HUNDREDS OF
    ARTISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

    who contributed and participated
    in these unique attempts to
    foster community during lockdown,
    disinformation war,
    the assault on artistic/academic freedom,
    and this AI shitshow.

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Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy

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ART EXHIBITIONS

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Digital Rights Are Civil Rights: Race and Technology

INTERNATIONAL JURIED ART EXHIBITION AND CIVIC FORUM

Minneapolis, MN and Online
Februrary 2021

In partnership with:

The Institute for Digital Humanity 
The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy
ACLU Minnesota
Native Youth Arts Collective
North Central University
Post ME Coalition
Councilman Steve Fletcher
(Minneapolis, MN)

INSTITUTE FOR AESTHETIC ADVOCACY

Thank you to my partners

ACLU MINNESOTA 
SAFETY NOT SURVEILLANCE COALITION
RECLAIM THE BLOCK
GUNS DOWN, LOVE UP
LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD COMMUNITY
LITTLE EARTH NATIVE YOUTH ARTS CENTER
PROTECT MINNESOTA
SECOND CHANCE COALITION
NORTH SUBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
URBAN EDUCATORS NORTHEAST SCULPTURE FACTORY
DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF LITERACY NARRATIVES
NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY

ART INSTALLATIONS

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PERFORMANCES


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