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Amelia Winger-Bearskin (born 1979 [1]) is an American artist and educator. Her work deals with artificial intelligence, ethics, and climate justice, among other topics.
Winger-Bearskin was born in 1979, and grew up in Oklahoma and New York. As a child she would accompany her mother during performances of their tribe's (Seneca Cayuga Nation) traditional stories . Winger Bearskin studied opera at Eastman School of Music [2], and holds an MFA from the University of Texas, Austin in Transmedia. [3] She also has a Master's Degree from NYU Tisch's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). [4] She has formerly taught at Vanderbilt University. In 2021 she was artist and technologist in residence as part of the Stanford Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning (VAF). She was a Mozilla Fellow embedded at MIT Co-Creation Studio in 2020. [5]
She is currently a Banks Endowed Preeminence Chair of AI and the Arts: Digital Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida's Digital Worlds Institute. She is the founding director of the UF AI Climate Justice Lab. [6]
Winger-Bearskin works in a variety of media including photography, video, installation, poetry and performance. Her works often reference or play on concepts taken from traditional Haudenosaunee stories and the history of indigenous peoples in North America set against themes introduced by contemporary technology.
Winger-Bearskin has shown work at:
Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim Museum, and the McCord Museum.
In 2022 she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Award for her project CLOUD WORLD / SKYWORLD. [33]
Her 2018 virtual reality piece Your Hands Are Feet from won an Alternative Realities Prize from Engadget and Verizon Media. [34]
Her video art was selected as a part of Storytelling: La biennale d'art contemporain autochtone, 2e édition (Art Biennale of Contemporary Native Art) at Art Mur (Montreal, Canada). [35] She has been a featured artist at numerous international performance art festivals since 2008 in cities not limited to: Beijing, China, Manila, Philippines, Seoul, South Korea, Sao Paulo, Brazil, New York, NY, and Washington, DC. She presented her performance art at the 2012 Gwangju Art Biennial and created an interactive portion of The Exchange Archive at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 2013. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim Museum, and the McCord Museum.
Winger-Bearskin is cofounder of the Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon. She is also the host of the podcast Wampum Codes and founder of the ethical framework for software development of the same name.
Amelia is an enrolled member of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, Deer Clan on her mother's side; her late father was Jewish/Baha'i. She was born in Rochester, NY and has one son.
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Amelia Winger-Bearskin (born 1979 [1]) is an American artist and educator. Her work deals with artificial intelligence, ethics, and climate justice, among other topics.
Winger-Bearskin was born in 1979, and grew up in Oklahoma and New York. As a child she would accompany her mother during performances of their tribe's (Seneca Cayuga Nation) traditional stories . Winger Bearskin studied opera at Eastman School of Music [2], and holds an MFA from the University of Texas, Austin in Transmedia. [3] She also has a Master's Degree from NYU Tisch's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). [4] She has formerly taught at Vanderbilt University. In 2021 she was artist and technologist in residence as part of the Stanford Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning (VAF). She was a Mozilla Fellow embedded at MIT Co-Creation Studio in 2020. [5]
She is currently a Banks Endowed Preeminence Chair of AI and the Arts: Digital Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida's Digital Worlds Institute. She is the founding director of the UF AI Climate Justice Lab. [6]
Winger-Bearskin works in a variety of media including photography, video, installation, poetry and performance. Her works often reference or play on concepts taken from traditional Haudenosaunee stories and the history of indigenous peoples in North America set against themes introduced by contemporary technology.
Winger-Bearskin has shown work at:
Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim Museum, and the McCord Museum.
In 2022 she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Award for her project CLOUD WORLD / SKYWORLD. [33]
Her 2018 virtual reality piece Your Hands Are Feet from won an Alternative Realities Prize from Engadget and Verizon Media. [34]
Her video art was selected as a part of Storytelling: La biennale d'art contemporain autochtone, 2e édition (Art Biennale of Contemporary Native Art) at Art Mur (Montreal, Canada). [35] She has been a featured artist at numerous international performance art festivals since 2008 in cities not limited to: Beijing, China, Manila, Philippines, Seoul, South Korea, Sao Paulo, Brazil, New York, NY, and Washington, DC. She presented her performance art at the 2012 Gwangju Art Biennial and created an interactive portion of The Exchange Archive at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 2013. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim Museum, and the McCord Museum.
Winger-Bearskin is cofounder of the Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon. She is also the host of the podcast Wampum Codes and founder of the ethical framework for software development of the same name.
Amelia is an enrolled member of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, Deer Clan on her mother's side; her late father was Jewish/Baha'i. She was born in Rochester, NY and has one son.