Women Artists in Cyberspace
Fall 2020

Maca Burbano
"...myself just like everyone, had a really rough go, we didn’t know what the hell was happening, we got everything taken away in so many senses. People underwent horrible situations financially, emotionally, all around a mess. For me personally I feel that although we aren’t fully out...This project brings me joy because I see myself in these pictures. I see how I’ve changed, how it looks different and feels different...". "

Audrey Dubler
Eve's Closet
"an interactive website that allows an audience to go through and explore different parts at their own pace. I want to focus on gender non-conforming identities and gender dysphoria. The setting will be a digital closet, or maybe a clothing shop, and the viewer will be able to pick clothes for a character to wear."

Adriana Guillen Santalla
Genderlust
"Enter the world of gender and explore all the possible combinations of gender identity. From the binary to non-binary, allow these 3D shapes to guide you to your chosen path. As you maneuver the sliders make new shapes, by connecting and overlappint the three objects on the screen. As the shapes move across the screen from left to right, follow the audio that tells you just how much of one or all the genders you feel."

Sofia Raquel Higgins
Heaven Is Where You Are (video)
"Through a collection of found materials gathered from the Internet, 'Heaven Is Where You Are' explores how consumer society’s colonization of youth and sexuality makes 'her' seek her own reflection in corporations and social media exchanges of personalities. "

Ryan Kocol
"...I wanted to further explore the work of female photographer Diane Arbus. I found her images to be incredibly inspiring because she photographed subjects in a way that allowed their voices to be heard. Her images of transgender and other LGBTQ+ community members allowed her subjects to be represented in their own way (not how society has always depicted them). The final product of my studies came in the form of three digital illustrations of Arbus’s original images."

Glen Lee
"...an animation...It's about a family's story who is obsessed with being a normal family. They are trying to inherit everything that they have, literally everything. Not only just materials, their personalities, outlooks, career, and everything...."

Kenzie Hill Lipe
"a music like structured video edit to 'What Gender are You' by EJ Schoenborn.
" I edited/cut/ transitioned the pieces in a manner that I found most pleasing. growing up being confused about both gender and sexuality, these are the videos that would play in my mind all the time."

Kay Liu
"you have to try"
(twine)
"this game will follow the unnamed (but also unnameable) protagonist as they try to go home, guided by a ghostly lover who eventually becomes real and is chased by supernatural beings...The game will center around queer identity, especially learning to love and accept said identity.."

Jo Morrison
"....a multi-media video that documents both themes of feminism and my own personal creative journey...every original photo was taken via a mechanical black and white camera...and were all hand-developed. They feature the neighborhood of Harvey, Chicago... combining a mechanical photo process with digital tools (phone cameras, video, 3D modeling, music) makes for a very interesting composition...this piece is about the urban influences of feminine identity in our modern age of technology. Signe Pierce was a huge inspiration... "

Amelia Shearrow
"...exploration of conversations and painting abstraction... I created an abstract color representation of a [email] conversation. I took a 12” x 12” stretched cotton canvas and affixed fiberglass screen repair tape onto the surface, creating a very tight gridded pattern to work on. I was able to then assign unique oil-based paint colors to letters and symbols for myself and 'friend', subsequently marking the corresponding color into a box shape on the gridded canvas....."

Stevie Lakym Stevens
"There is something that happens when femme bodies 'control' and produce sound to tell their narratives...The ultimate goal for this project is to make gloves bluetooth compatible, with a sleek design and user ability that does not depend on a wide display of wires...I am interested in becoming the synth, and sculpting the vibrations but not totally controlling them...an open conversation."

Joe Robert Spica
Grocery Market (oil on bed sheets) "I have dove deep into my not so extensive memory banks of childhood to research my relationships with my mother and how it differs with my idea of mother hood."

Haley Stieber
"...a calendar serving as an informative work on sustainable eating within Chicago. I would like to focus on researching farms, food banks, composts, as well as eating for Chicago's plant zone providing a monthly illustrated list of the fruits and vegetables in season that month....Bonnie Sherk's the Farm was a great suggestion to explore! Particularly the design aspect including research and proposals..."

Ciel Wang
a video essay that introduces the three famous black women scientists of NASA based on the film Hidden Figures. I want to use this video to give a brief introduction of these women that made significant contributions to space ind ustry and feminism. At the same time, this video can be seen as an recommendation of the film Hidden Figures. ."