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Facing eviction this winter, Alice attempted to email to Hartford Housing Court the documents needed to qualify for the eviction moratorium program established by the federal government during the pandemic, but her paperwork didn’t arrive.
At her hearing on Tuesday, Alice cried as she told a judge she meets all the requirements for the moratorium, to whom at Hartford Housing Court she sent her documents, and that she will be homeless if the judge allows a state marshal to remove her from her one-bedroom apartment in the West End of Hartford. The CT Mirror is not disclosing Alice’s last name in this article at her request.
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Camae Ayewa (left) and Rasheedah Phillips (right) (Photo by Ryan Collerd)
Time travel is not fantasy for Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa. Through their artistic collaboration as Black Quantum Futurism, they find places where science fiction and reality meet.
“Our work is grounded in Afro-futurism, an umbrella term for envisioning and thinking about Black people in the future,” said Phillips, who serves as managing attorney for the housing unit of Community Legal Services, a free legal aid organization for low-income people in Philadelphia, and writes sci-fi.
“In my work as a housing attorney, I work with people losing their homes and having their futures cut off,” she said. “The work is about developing and building tools to create alternative futures for ourselves and recover our past.”
Sondra Perry s digital work Flesh Wall is currently taking over Times Square s billboards as part of the site s Midnight Moment monthly programme of artist interventions
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced today the inaugural recipients of its new Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship, which annually awards unrestricted grants of $50,000 to five artists who use technologies such as artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, software and coding, in what the foundation calls “thoughtful, creative or poetic ways” that “expand the field”.
“By supporting world-class tech-based art, we aim to spotlight the potential of using tech to engage audiences in meaningful art experiences,” says Victoria Rogers, the vice president of arts at the Knight Foundation. “Technology is a tool, in and of itself it is neither good nor bad. As artist s have done for centuries, they provide us with new ways to view the world. Through their lens, they can provok
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Ansista (2019). Installation view at Venue: Fort Mason Center For Art And Culture, San Francisco. Photo: Courtesy Rashaad Newsome Studio.
The Knight Foundation has announced the inaugural recipients of its new arts and tech fellowship, each of whom will be awarded $50,000 in unrestricted funds to pursue creative ventures in artificial intelligence, digital fabrication, software, coding, or immersive technologies.
The honorees are artists Rashaad Newsome, Rodolfo Peraza, Sondra Perry, Stephanie Dinkins, and the Philadelphia-based Black Quantum Futurism collective, founded by Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips.
The winners were selected by a panel of experts including Josette Melchor of Google; Ari Melenciano, the founder of the futurist group Afrotectopia; and Stephanie Pereira, the director of New Inc., the New York-based art and technology hub. The $50,000 grant will be administered by United States Artists.