At LACMA Art+Tech Lab 2015



A Piece of the Pie Chart at the LACMA Art+Tech Lab
was developed as part of my year-long Art+Tech grant period at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Art+Tech Lab. This version of the project was inspired by the original Art&Technology Program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1967-1971), a program that was notorious for excluding women. It was protested by feminists at the time. Besides researching the feminist protest, I also wanted to know what the current state of Art &Tech looks like in terms of gender. I collected gender ratios from tech-driven art (exhibition venues, festivals, grants and prizes) to tech-centric events such as tech conferences, and work places such as Google, Facebook, and other companies that publish workforce gender data. The aesthetic form of the project remained the same. The project features a robot arm that is driven by an inverse kinematics algorithm written by physicist Yaouen Fily and adapted by me to work with the specifics of the hardware. I wrote a blog post for the LACMA blog detailing my research into historic and contemporary feminist protest using data. The robotics project was exhibited at the LACMA Art+Tech Lab this April. The exhibition was accompanied by a series of events on the topic of feminist data. According to the Art+Tech lab managers, my events had been the most gender diverse they had had so far.

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