ART EXHIBITIONS and CIVIC FORUMS

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Dr. Aaron McKain

ART EXHIBITIONS

ART EXHIBITIONS

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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.

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INTERNATIONAL JURIED
ART EXHIBITION AND CIVIC FORUM

Minneapolis, MN and Online
May 2020 (at the height of the pandemic)

​​IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:
The Institute for Digital Humanity
The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy 
North Central University
Hamline University

CURATED TO CATALYZE:
Critical cross-cultural conversations on our post-COVID 19 existence to start to rebuild our common humanity and shared reality.

Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy

CONTAMINATED

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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)

DIGITAL RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS

INTERNATIONAL JURIED ART EXHIBITION AND CIVIC FORUM 
Minneapolis, MN and Online
February 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)

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ART EXHIBITION

ALL BULLETS SHATTER

All Bullets Shatter:
Untold Stories of Gun Violence and Trauma

LIVING ART EXHIBITION AND CIVIC FORUM 

Minneapolis, MN and Online
May 2022

In partnership with:

Guns Down, Love Up 
Protect Minnesota
Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives
Urban Educators
North Suburban Center for the Arts
Minnesota  Second Change Coalition
and faculty from Ohio State, Georgia State, Portland State, 
and the Pittsburg Univ.  Prison Writing Project

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IDH Victories

IDH TOWN HALL: COVID, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND SURVEILLANCE

May 2020. (Peak Pandemic.)
Minneapolis, MN and Online

Thank you to:
Representative Jeremy Munson (MN)
Congressional candidate Rob Barrett (MN)
and Councilwoman Nancy Yang (Saint Paul)

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Institute for Digital Humanity

PLUGGING IN: TECHNOLOGY AND SURVEILLANCE

COMMUNITY EDUCATION &
EMPOWERMENT EVENT
Minneapolis, MN and Online. October 2021

In partnership with: 
ACLU Minnesota
Reclaim the Block
The Institute for Digital Humanity
North Central Univ.
Safety Not Surveillance
Post ME
Tultaine Valley Creates
Councilman Simon Troutman (Richfield, Minnesota)
Councilman Steve Fletcher (Minneapolis)

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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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