Speakers — Art + Data

Art + Data

Speakers

Art + Data programming includes inviting artists to talk about their practice and how they connect art + data.

Petra Floyd
Thursday, April 25, 2024 5-6:30PM

Petra Floyd (she/they) is a queer first-generation Liberian-American multidisciplinary artist and designer raised by working-class immigrants in Philadelphia, and she lives and works in Pittsburgh. Petra makes whatever she wants, however she wants, ideally making herself laugh throughout the process. Petra values improvised, devised, and collaborative modes of making and thinking. They link up with other instigator-activators to craft small moments and performances using close-at-hand materials and resources. Petra dreams about group movement and gameplay spaces for self-reflection and expansion. They make sounds, videos, drawings, and performances happen, with feeling.

Vic Spindler Fox
Thursday, Feburary 1, 2024 3-5PMET

Defining the Undefinable: Grief & Futility in Projects of Representation
This program received support from the Sara Fine Institute.

Vic is an nth-generation East Tennessee native and seventh-generation textile artist. They work professionally in documentation for open-source agricultural data, and personally on getting in the middle of a big mess and cutting their way out. Their artistic work focuses on reclaimed and mended textiles designed for daily use, rooted in embodiment and a sense of place, and based around ideas of mourning and memory, scrap and salvage, queerness and ghosts.