I will be hosting a Community Art Spell Procession at INVERSE 2024, a four-day performance art festival presented by the Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Employing liveness, experimentation, and radical approaches to the important issues of our moment, the festival features more than 45 artists and projects who are in constant interrogation of material, form, and gesture to offer new ideas and perspectives on how we experience the world.

For tickets and more information: https://themomentary.org/calendar/inverse/#tickets

I am going to be exhibiting art as a part of EDEN at Last Projects curated by Emily Lucid. There will be an opening event on November 15th at 7pm with live performances. Save the date and I hope to see you there!

For more information: http://www.lastprojects.org/

Discover 20 talented Tezos artists whose works are exhibited on billboards across Belgium and celebrate their upcoming drop on Objkt. Enjoy drinks, meet fellow art enthusiasts, and explore the future of digital art. Everyone is welcome!

​Artists exhibited include: Mina Tahmasb Kazemi, Luciana Guerra, MARYAM, Noortje Stortelder, Edgar Fabian Frias, Vidal Herrera, Eraserhead & Mortezaaa, Simulacro, Hrant Khachatryan, Cozmonika, Quantum Spirit, Anastasia Mihaylova, Kamand Kavand, Lau, Mat Nova, paraxeno daimonio, Henrique Cartaxo - Augurs, Buba Viedma, mim_maryam, Antoine Doré

​Curated by Sendrock and UnknownCollector

To RSVP: https://lu.ma/8g3xh2j8

Superchief Gallery NFT has brought a special selection of OVER 160 beautiful pieces of art to show on the floor-to-ceiling immersive screens of @NFCsummit’s main stage! 🙌🔥

Get your tickets for ABUNDANCE! 🎟️ Here

I’m overjoyed to share that I’m going to be performing not just once but TWICE next month as a part of @welcometolace’s ABUNDANCE at @ladanceproject!

I’m preparing a brand new solo performance piece for Wednesday 3/24 that’s inspired by my obsession with hard house and electronic as a young teen growing up in the 90s and early 2000s.

AND, my band @gay.cay is performing on Thursday 4/25 for the first time live since 2019! Come see @th4ddeus and I share our QUEER MUTANT MAGIC!

Truly grateful to the lovely @selene__preciado and @m3tapaper.angel for inviting us to be a part of these start studded performance series! 🫂🥰

#repost @welcometolace Join us on April 24-26, from 7-10 PM at L.A. Dance Project (@ladanceproject) for three nights of performance! RSVP link in bio.

“ABUNDANCE” presents cutting edge performance art and interdisciplinary work by artists whose lived experiences as non-traditional or fat bodies challenge intersectional forms of oppression. This assembly of artists invites the public to witness and participate in the reclamation of our own plentiful bodies—disrupting the status quo and forging liberatory ways of being through community.

Performance schedule:

✨Wednesday, April 24✨
7:45 PM Yesika Salgado (@yesikastarr
8:00 PM Edgar Fabián Frías (@edgarfabianfrias)
8:30 PM Ghis Rodríguez (@ghisrodriguezart)
9:00 PM Cody Perkins (@codyofthealgos_)

✨Thursday, April 25✨
7:45 PM Melba Martínez (@frutamala)
8:00 PM Alima Lee (@alima_lee)
8:30 PM Jessica Carolina González (@jcg.studio)
9:00 PM GayCay (@gay.cay)

✨Friday, April 26✨
7:45 PM Caleb Luna (@dr_chairbreaker)
8:00 PM Vanessa Hernández Cruz (@galaxiesdance)
8:30 PM Patrisse Cullors (osopepatrisse)
9:00 PM Dorian Wood (@dorianwoodmusic)

🌾We are thrilled to announce our upcoming exhibition SUMMERTIME in collaboration with Brand Library + Art Center, and the Glendale Unified School District.

SUMMERTIME is curated by Marcela Vieira (@marcevieira) and features the work of:

Andrea Ganuza @andrea.ganuza
Beatriz Toledo @b.e.a.f.a.c.a
Berfin Ataman @berfinataman
Brice Bischoff @brice_bischoff
Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas @lacaycedo
Edgar Fabián Frías @edgarfabianfrias
Isabel Beavers @isabelbeavers
Janaina Wagner @janainawagner
Joel Kuennen @joelkuennen
Lauren Bon @laurenmetropolis
Maurício Chades @m.chades
Noara Quintana @noaraquintana
Sofia Borges @sofiadborges
Star Feliz @priestusssy
Wallace Masuko @wallacemasuko

Join us on Saturday, March 30 from 6-9pm for the opening reception.

Address: 1601 W Mountain St, Glendale,
CA 91201

SUMMERTIME considers the landscape as the consequence of human production, the result of the transformation from its natural state. The topography has long been divided, fragmented, and modified according to social, economic, and aesthetic motivations.

The fifteen artists in the exhibition present works with various materials and develop strange configurations, creating relationships between their works and the gallery space. SUMMERTIME forges a path that seeks to investigate the reality and possibilities of representation, using fiction as a way to imagine alternative landscapes.

SUMMERTIME is a collaboration between
SUPERCOLLIDER, the Brand Library and Art Center, and Glendale Unified School District.

Students from Glendale Unified School District contribute works inspired by the curatorial concept of SUMMERTIME and are exhibited in conversation with SUPERCOLLIDER’s exhibition.

SUMMERTIME graphic by @wallacevmasuko
@brandlibrary @glendaleusd

#summertime #supercollider #losangeles #glendale #art #video #film #sculpture

"Junk Drawer” leans into a unique realm of overstimulation only possible through the medium of collage. Collages reorganize the visual imagery of the world around us, which in the Modern Era, overflowing with visual stimulation, leaves a lot for the artists to sort through. These visually crowded works are a symptom of our chaotic world, a chaos which each artist reorganizes through their own collage process and stylistic preferences.

Featuring art from:

@adhd143

@alejandropeters

@Bitaemm

@bluespieces

@Cat_Russell_

@chefglitchpsd

@CoverArtGuyy

@danie1jerome

@demonegoo

@Edgar_Frias_

@emil_bean

@fandefantastica

@garmash__

@goopyworldgirl

@ibenedictfuc12

@Infinite_Mantra

@julianbrangold

@kaparetti

@khwampa

@kitasavi

@lifewithart_

@lulucollages_

@mich_tom

@MuskTeflon

@nastia_n_n

@nicolavilla5

@Poetonic_Art

@rebeccarosenft

@resatio

@stvccs

@thealvinboss

@Timgrib1

@tuhanzilla

@visionpoetry_

@youmiirror

@zxndr_

This virtual exhibition features artwork from Demian DinéYazhi’, Kira Xonorika, and Yoli. It is curated by Edgar Fabián Frías and made possible with support from the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits and The Golden Dome.

Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) exists to restore and recover the role of Two-Spirit people within the American Indian/First Nations community by creating a forum for the spiritual, cultural, and artistic expression of Two-Spirit people.

The Golden Dome is an educational and curatorial platform dedicated to studying the relationships between mysticism and the arts. We produce exhibitions, performances, classes, publications, and artist residencies year-round and nationwide.

There are two ways to experience this exhibition:

You can click here to explore the virtual gallery

You can also check out the exhibition here.

BITCHES BUTCHES AND BEARS curated by Transcend (OONA & @samjstudios) a collection of 13 artists who's creativity can survive any winter.

BITCHES BUTCHES AND BEARS (in alphabetical order):

@carlagannis @Edgar_Frias_ @fantasticplanet @ina_vare @lm_netwebs @margaretonline @MiekeMarple @nkjuls @StudioBrooke @tylergivens @VioletBondArt @waambat @Yosnier_

To see my art, go here: https://campfire.exchange/collections/0xfa8a8bf11d406e2ad64928042c8df79a30e38ca0/1000000000000000001

Get your free tickets for the opening event here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/edgar-fabian-frias-exhibition-the-museum-of-multidimensional-mutant-maps-tickets-787433243027

Come celebrate the opening of 'The Museum Of Multidimensional Mutant Maps' a new solo exhibition by Edgar Fabián Frías at PRS. The opening will feature a guest lecture by writer Katie Hofstadter and a screening of selected films by Frías.

5-8 PM Viewing hours (HANSELL GALLERY)

6 PM : Artist talk and screening (AUDITORIUM)

7 PM: Reception

About the exhibition:

Edgar Fabián Frías' Solo Exhibition "The Museum Of Multidimensional Mutant Maps"

"The Museum of Multidimensional Mutant Maps," a solo exhibition featuring bold new works by interdisciplinary artist Edgar Fabián Frías. On view from January 13 through February 24, 2023, this exhibition transforms the gallery into an immersive museum experience reexamining maps through the lens of imagination, reflection, and reinvention.

Inspired by the Nierika, a Wixárika technology, Frías has created interactive installations, paintings, sculptures, prints, and videos to help guide, confuse, and connect with visitors to this museum. These new artworks are arranged throughout the thematic wings of the museum, each exploring different facets of maps.

By interweaving indigenous, psychedelic, punk, and futurist influences, Frías has constructed a museum at once critical, visionary, and whimsical. Their mutant maps capture traces of haunted pasts, possible presents, and emergent futures - if we dare to reorient our perspectives. Ultimately, this exhibition serves as a testament to the transformative power of indigenous technologies and art practices to prompt reflection, spark imagination, and manifest reinvention.

Come get lost and found again in the prismatic journey of Edgar Fabián Frías' Museum of Multidimensional Mutant Maps.

#MOMMM

Edgar Fabián Frías works in installation, photography, video art, sound, sculpture, printed textiles, GIFs, performance, social practice, and community organizing, among other forms. Frías is Wixárika and their family is from Mexico, though they have lived in the United States for most of their life. Their art addresses historical legacies and acts of resistance, resiliency, and radical imagination within the context of Indigenous Futurism, spirituality, play, pedagogy, animism, and queer aesthetics. Weaving together the traditional and ancestral with the contemporaneous and emergent.

Born in East Los Angeles in 1983, Frías received dual BA degrees in Psychology and Studio Art from UC, Riverside. In 2013, they received an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, with an emphasis on Interpersonal Neurobiology and Somatic Psychotherapy. Frías received their MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley in 2022.
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Their work has been exhibited internationally, including the Vincent Price Art Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Oregon Contemporary, MOCA Jacksonville, Project Space Festival Juárez, and ArtBo, among others. Their work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Taschen, Bustle, Los Angeles Times, Slate, CVLT Nation, Terremoto, Hyperallergic, and other publications.

edgarfabianfrias.org // @edgarfabianfrias

Katie Peyton Hofstadter is a Los Angeles-based writer, curator and artist exploring the dynamics between culture, technology and power. She has co-founded several international public art campaigns, including ARORA, a network of over 70 artists creating new AR monuments to diverse female and gender-expansive voices in public spaces; the Climate Clock monument, a global call to #actintime on the climate crisis; and Future Art Models, an experiment in prefigurative imagination commissioned by apexart, guiding young creatives to design alternative professional models in the arts. As a writer, she is a contributor to Flash Art, The Believer, BOMB, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, and Right Click Save. Her work has been featured in publications including the New York Times, The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, Hyperallergic and ArtFCity. For ten years, she has taught at Parsons, The New School, and F.I.T. 

On view January 13th - February 24, 2024

Hansell Gallery Hours: Tuesdays-Fridays 12-6pm and by appointment info@prs.org

Pavilion Exhibition for the 6th edition of the @thewrong.biennale is now officially open!

Click here to see it: https://newart.city/show/throwingdigitalbricks
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This exhibition results from an open call for queer artists online to share their work during Pride Month 2023.
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As a digital artist and queer activist, I asked myself how I could utilize the tools at my access to build a bridge between the virtual and the physical planes. Guerrilla projecting these works in public spaces channels the potentiality of that moment when the first brick was thrown. A visual detonation in the public sphere, ensuring that the spirit of that act of defiance, that bold declaration of existence and resistance, remains alive.
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Think of these works as a fierce declaration, a celebration, and a testament to the resiliency and multiplicity of queer art and activism.
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Curated by Katie Peyton Hofstadter

San Luis Obispo, CA · LIFELIKE, a group exhibition curated by writer, curator and artist Katie Peyton Hofstadter, explores the work of ten artists logging biological, genetic, and behavioral information on a digital ledger, to invoke a conversation about body sovereignty in our technopresent. The exhibition also features an interactive and VR experience, presented by EPOCH, and a performance schedule spanning the Cal Poly University gallery, the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA) and the Center for Experiential Technology (CET).

Technology is moving into our bodies, and our bodies are moving into technology. The stakes are high: Will we double our health spans or create a techno-dystopian Gilead? 

The artists in this exhibition are interested in what it will mean, and how it will feel, to have a body in a future where wetware (living tissue) serves as a foundation for technology, where medical implants monitor not only our hearts and minds, but also our experiences and relationships; and where decisions are made by programs even their creators do not fully understand. 

Today, phones harvest information about our bodies and behaviors by default. How does it feel to seek digital connection when our every swipe, movement, and private message is under surveillance? 

The artists in LIFELIKE use their own bodies to stress-test the present and near-future, probing how information flows between our biological and virtual identities, and expanding our vocabulary through imaginative scenarios. By bringing a creative lens to the conversation,  these ten artists invite the possibility that the lab rats might now take back control. 

This exhibition expands the ideas put forth in Hofstadter’s text, Bodies on the Blockchain (2022).

Featuring works by
EDGAR FABIÁN FRÍAS · LANS KING

LAUREN LEE MCCARTHY · NICOLE WILSON · OONA x LORI BALDWIN · PUSSY RIOT · SAMMIE VEELER x MISTRESS FIX

SPUTNIKO! · WHITE MALE ARTIST AKA CASSILS · XIN LIU

LIFELIKE interactive + VR exhibition presented by EPOCH

CASSILS · LANS KING · LAUREN LEE MCCARTHY 

NICOLE WILSON · PUSSY RIOT · SPUTNIKO! · XIN LIU

More than Meets AI conducts an artistic investigation of artificial intelligence and its role in creativity, narrative and artistic innovation. We do so from a critically engaged perspective, one that both engages with the new creative potentialities of AI for the arts and literature, while also considering some of the significant challenges AI poses for our culture and society, and the place of contemporary AI art in relation to historical work in electronic literature. In addition to the digital art exhibition at UC Berkeley's Worth Ryder Gallery, there will be an infrastructure tour exploring AI's and digital technologies' physical infrastructures and environmental impacts in the Bay Area.

Curated by Jill Miller, Eamon O'Kane, and Scott Rettberg, this exhibition emerges from a Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study research project titled “Transformation and Disruption: The Challenges and Opportunities of AI for Human Creativity.” The project is focused on the aesthetic and cultural impacts of AI, and will result both in art exhibitions and research cooperation between the University of Bergen’s Center for Digital Narrative and UC Berkeley.

In 2024, an expanded version of the exhibition will be produced in Bergen with new inputs from Norwegian writers and artists. CDN and UiB will organize a research symposium on the narrative and artistic constraints and affordances of AI and produce a catalog and critical reflection on the project and its themes.

Artists in the exhibition:
Mez Breeze, Edgar Fabian Frias, Micol Hebron, Carl Hugo Hernqvist, David Jhave Johnston, Asma Kazmi, Alison Knowles, Alinta Krauth, Koirus (Linda Kronman and Andreas Zingerle), Patrick Lichty, Theo Lutz, Talan Memmott, Avital Meshi, Jill Miller, Nick Montfort, Jason Nelson, Eamon O'Kane, Mario de la Ossa, Sonja Rappaport, Scott Rettberg, Mario Santamaria, Alex Saum, Sasha Stiles, and Victor H. Yngve

Previously in 2019 O'Kane, Rettberg, and Greg Niemeyer co-curated a show at UC Berkeley's Worth Ryder gallery titled "Hyperobjects," which focused on digital art practices addressing climate change.

Exhibition dates: October 2nd - 14th, 2023

Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Anthropology and Art Practice Building (AAPB), near the intersection of College Avenue and Bancroft Way

Hours: 12-5 pm: Mon, Tues, Thur, Friday 1-7pm: Wednesday 12pm-3pm: Saturday 12-3pm

**Artists:**

- Bobby Joe Smith III

- Edgar Fabián Frías

- Gerald Clarke

- Moara Tupinambá

- Noara Quintana

- Óldo Erréve

- Tiare Ribeaux

- Qianqian Ye

- Bomi Yook

**Curators:**

- Berfin Ataman

- Isabel Beavers

- Yara Feghali

- Kira Xonorika

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**SUPERCOLLIDER** and **Idyllwild Arts Academy** are delighted to present the collaborative exhibition titled **"The Grammar of Animacy."** Indigenous worldviews have always been rooted in notions of interconnectedness and the recognition of the elements of the land, such as stones and mountains, as ancestors possessing intelligence and wisdom. In her book, "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants," Robin Wall Kimmerer, a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, discusses the concept of the grammar of animacy:

"Plants and animals are animate, but as I learn, I am discovering that the Potawatomi understanding of what it means to be animate diverges from the list of attributes of living beings we all learned in Biology 101. In Potawatomi 101, rocks are animate, as are mountains and water and fire and places. Beings that are imbued with spirit, our sacred medicines, our songs, drums, and even stories, are all animate."

Kimmerer reflects on language as a realm for shaping imagination and possibility. She points out that the English language sets up divisions between humans and objects, which are then assigned gender or animacy. These divisions are often hierarchical.

What role does art play as a language, and how can it serve as an instrument to invoke alternative ways of being, thinking, and acting, ultimately leading to a reorientation in the relationships between species, people, and spirits? Can art and artists create a space to initiate conversations on the impulse of meaning and community?

**"The Grammar of Animacy"** brings together the work of eight artists who aim to challenge Western myths and cultivate visions that intertwine multiplicity in embodiment, queer mythologies, indigenous epistemologies, and ethical relationships with ecology and technology.

- Moara Tupinambá explores kinship relations with trees, plants, and animals in Tambaqui.

- Cahuilla artist Gerald Clarke's work, **Punu’ul**, makes visible the Yucca Whipplei, a plant of cultural significance to the Cahuilla people.

- Artists Tiare Ribeaux and Qianqian Ye merge magical realism with elements of Hawaiian and Mandarin cosmology in their project **Kai Hai**, examining social and environmental inequities.

- Artist Edgar Fabián Frias is interested in alchemizing relations between earth and humans. Their artwork, **'3 of Cups (Tatéi Neixa)**,' is an altar created with the intention of reaffirming and reestablishing ancestral pacts to bring sustaining rains and healing for the land and its inhabitants.

In addition to convening with more-than-human neighbors, works in the exhibition invite animism as a strategy for challenging colonialism, colonial narratives, and colonial sites of production. Artists Bomi Yook and Bobby Joe Smith III challenge settler cities as sites for utopic worldbuilding, instead highlighting the longstanding presence of indigeneity and speculating on how indigenous people live in futures designed by settler colonizers. The work proposes a vision in which sites of decay are spaces ripe for decolonization for indigenous communities. Noara Quintana is interested in the tangible qualities of everyday items, intersecting with the histories of the Global South to challenge colonial narratives.

In **Orvópera**, artist Óldo Erréve utilizes 3D design and AI-collaborative media to explore the intersection between organic forms and innovative technological tools, projecting physical and virtual bodily expressions. **ORVÓPERA** brings ideas of animacy to the forefront of technological collaborations, prompting us to ask about the life and soul of the machines we work with and how these ideas apply to all bodies.

By proposing alternative notions of animacy, the works in this exhibition encourage us to consider life all around us. How are the machines we use, lands we inhabit, oceans of storms, and sea life also alive? If we can understand these entities as animated, as beings rather than objects or materials, we can engender respect within our relations to them and disassemble the barriers that separate us.

This exhibition is made possible with generous funding from the Native American Arts Center and Arts Enterprise Laboratory at Idyllwild Arts.

 HITCH SWITCHERS vol.4 – SOUND ON🔊at @niftygateway presented by @hitchswitchers

Open Editions Available: Sept 28, 6pm  – Sept 30, 6pm UTC

Artists: @GinoBattiston @lynalurex @kate_the_cursed_art @edgarfabianfrias @spogelsesmaskinen @aaasonipse @stellaparticula @lidiceonline PHOSPHOR*OPERATOR and Henrique Cartaxo

Curated by @ina.vare

'SOUND ON' revolves around the irony of our enduring love for audio-visual art forms, despite the fact that we often mute them. 

We've come a long way from opera performances and silent movies with unsynchronized musical accompaniment to the first sound films, broadcast TV, and early internet content, where nearly every webpage had some form of sound. But in the present moment, things have become more complicated. 

We've started muting our TVs and social networks, and we've gone even further. Now, we live in an age where we have to alert others that a particular piece of content, artwork, or anything else includes a listen worthy soundtrack, and it's recommended to unmute. Especially when we share audio-visuals on the internet – whether it's art or just a fleeting glimpse of everyday life. Are we becoming oversaturated, or are our expectations simply changing and evolving? With this collection, you're invited to leave the sound on for the entire show and find out the answers yourself.

Live on Nifty Gateway and Voxels Gallery

Curated by INA VARE