Computational Witchcraft in Willful Technologies, Denmark

Artwork from my Computational Witchcraft show at AURA gallery and memes from the #meghantrainorwitchmemes project were included in the new Danish publication Willful Technologies: Rage & Resilience edited by Madeline Balaam Lone Koefoed Hansen.

I was happy to share advanced images of the publication draft on May 4, 2019 because it was also one of the final openings of this particular life cycle of AURA gallery. Alexis Taylor presented Black Among Other Things, an installation that I described as functioning as the cover art for the mixtape of the sonic experience she created for the show. I’m excited to see what the audience tonight experiences! Seattle’s creative communities are stretched thin by the same forces that have contributed to gentrification and the homeless crisis. Rising rents, rising fascism, lack of affordable space, diminished press. It is beautiful to see moments where the resilience shines.

And I am grateful for my many creative friends in Scandinavia like Lone & Madeline who share how global some of our struggles are. I had the good fortune to be interviewed by Danish-Iranian editor, critic and activist Nazila Vida Roxana Ghavami Kivi last year for her research. Speaking with her and understanding her knowledge of a growing global community of cyborg witches about which I had no idea was truly inspiring.

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