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Join Curator Mike Calway-Fagen, and Education Consultant, Josiah Golson, in the Studio with Ash Eliza Smith Friday at 5 PM. Ash will be a participating artist in the exhibition Music.Video. which will run in our 2021 exhibition season. Mike, Josiah, and Ash will be continuing their conversation about how her work and how storytelling reinforces and/or breaks down the themes explored in the exhibition.

About Music.Video.

What in the past was considered two distinct entities; divided by presentation platforms, legibility, perceived intellectual rigor, class associations, etc. have become a swirl of interdependencies, mutual mimicry, and genre bending. So-called High Art and Low Art have both maintained these characterizations as facets of their composition, but have also taken on board their inverse. Increasingly, both Low and High explore a hybridized middle, neither rarefied art object nor pop cultural production, but more something simmering between.

About Ash:

Ash is an artist-researcher who uses storytelling, simulation, and worldbuilding to speculate and activate futures—to shape new realities. Utilizing multiple platforms from immersive role-play performances to location-based experiences, Ash works across art+science, between fact+fiction, and with human+non-human agents to re-imagine systems, perception, and embodiment. Ash has worked as an actor, performer, musician, producer, director, and writer for various media platforms and is currently an Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln where she has launched an interdisciplinary lab focused on story, worlds, and speculative design. 

https://www.projectblanksd.org/ash-eliza-smith