The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

CURRENTS/Parallel Studios

Location
Santa Fe, NM
Grant Cycle
Fall 2022
Amount
$80,000
Type of Grant
Multi-year Program Support
Website
currentsnewmedia.org/ ↗
Christine Cassano (collaboration with artist Jimmy Peggie), Universal Algorithm, 2021. Sound painting, 48" H x 96" L x 2" D. Wall panel. Courtesy of CURRENTS.
Leah Seigel, Mono (from series What I Know) leah seigel, n.d. Digital drawing on paper, 9 x 13 in. Courtesy of CURRENTS.
Mike Root, Stir Qi, 2023. TouchDesigner, Kinect, Ableton. Courtesy of CURRENTS.
Sarah Stolar, Feelings, 2023. Laser cut Stonehenge paper, pencil shavings, 32 x 30 in, dimensions variable to floor. Courtesy of CURRENTS.
Zuvya Sevilla, Sink 2, 2023. Multimedia installation. Courtesy of CURRENTS.
Keely mackey-Gonzales, Meditations, 2023. Electroacoustic cello performance with macrophotography visuals. Courtesy of CURRENTS.

CURRENTS New Media fosters new media arts and presents artists creating innovative work. Its annual festival, educational programs, and exhibition space gives the public year-round access to immersive and expansive art experiences. It provides the community with opportunities to experience new media arts in traditional venues, public and outdoor spaces. The festival is the result of a collaboration between Parallel Studios, its partners throughout the city and the many volunteers who invest their time to support this project. It is truly a community endeavor.

Parallel Studios has been producing, curating and designing small and large scale exhibitions in Santa Fe since 2002. In 2010, it launched CURRENTS New Media as an annual, citywide event. The festival brings together the work of established and emerging new media artists from New Mexico, the US and around the world.  Its exhibition showcases interactive and non-interactive installations, multimedia performances, VR and AR environments, single channel video, animation, experimental documentary, robotics, wearables and 3D printing.

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“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”

Pradeep Dalal, Program Director,  The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant