Miami Women's Artist Archive

In the last three decades, Miami’s art activity has proliferated but where are the records, archives and documentation of this activity located? At present in Miami, there is no comprehensive support for the documentation and preservation of artist archives. The handful of traditional archives that exist in Miami while fulfilling an important objective are not focused primarily on the visual arts. And archives that are tied to institutions often have selection criteria that are founded on the historic principles that conceptualize the process of preservation as a measure of the monolithic past and often ignore the complexities of archiving as a dynamic, post-custodial and culturally sensitive practice.

My project will bring the practices of women artists to the forefront by offering them democratic technologies to document their art making process and archives. The Miami Women’s Artist Archive (MWAA) will be a participatory user driven platform that will enable users to upload their content to a user friendly website.

The digital archive will be available to diverse audiences. The mission of the MWAA will be to facilitate the preservation and documentation of artist archives of women of diverse artistic backgrounds and nationalities. Learn more

GET A CLOSER LOOK into the artist’s writing on the blog.

Experiment .001: FocusCoin and CryptoSymphonics by LCHN

.001: FocusCoin and CryptoSymphonics is an experiment focused on cryptocurrencies and their power. This experiment is aimed at finding new ways to work with and disseminate cryptocurrency, and how cryptocurrencies and the decentralized communities surrounding them shape our world today. This experiment includes three components. The first being the development of a new cryptocurrency as the central unit for the experiment called: FocusCoin. The second involves using OpenBCI (an open source Brain-Computer Interface) to translate synchronized EEG waves to generate and mine for the token of exchange that we have built. The final component is an auto generated score, with an accompanying performance, utilizing the fluctuations in price of cryptocurrencies in real time as the source for the sounds.

OCR: Lincoln Memorial Park

OCR: Lincoln Memorial Park, a cemetery in Brownsville, and burial site of black luminaries like D.A. Dorsey, Gwen Cherry, Father John Culmer and countless others whose lives and narratives may illuminate our understanding of Brownsville and of Historic Miami.

OCR will mount an exhibition and publish a book featuring on the research, findings and newly commissioned texts in the 1st Quarter of 2019.

“Alosúgbe: remembering (as far as the sun)”

“Alosúgbe: remembering (as far as the sun),” focuses on colonial era and contemporary ethnobotany of the Caribbean region as material source for understanding the migrations of both humans and plants during those periods.

Today the resultant botanicals and food traditions of the Caribbean regional societies provides a long overdue opportunity for discussion of a greater Caribbean culinary heritage now fully integrated, but whose African contribution is still not yet fully appreciated.

Miami as a regional community comes from various parts of the Caribbean and the historical relationships through forced and voluntary migration, both people and food, are part of the region’s legacy.

GET A CLOSER LOOK into the project on the blog.