Moved by the Motion is a group of interdisciplinary artists who work with a spectrum of mediums including language, movement, image, and sound. [1] [2] [3]
The Moved by the Motion group started in 2013. Membership is fluid, beginning as two or three people and now around seven or eight. Wu Tsang is a member of the group, referring to the arrangement as similar to a band. [2] Opening in January 2022, Moved by the Motion installed an experiential sound installation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that will remain up until June 2022. [4] [5] The members participating in the 2022 SFMOMA installation are: Asma Maroof, Tapiwa Svosve, Patrick Belaga, Fred Moten, Serpentwithfeet, Tosh Basco, Ahya Simone, Daniel Pineda, and David Quam. [4] In 2022, it was announced that Moved by the Motion will participate in the 2022 Whitney Biennial curated by Adrienne Edwards and David Breslin. [6]
Jeremy Blake was an American digital artist and painter. His work included projected DVD installations, Type C prints, and collaborative film projects.
MTAA is a Brooklyn, New York-based conceptual and new media art duo composed of M.River and T.Whid. The two artists founded MTAA in 1996. Their often humorous studies of networked culture, the economics of art and digital materials take the form of web sites, videos, installations, sculptures and photographic prints.
Rigo 23 is a Portuguese-born American muralist, painter, and political artist. He is known in the San Francisco community for having painted a number of large, graphic "sign" murals including: One Tree next to the U.S. Route 101 on-ramp at 10th and Bryant Street, Innercity Home on a large public housing structure, Sky/Ground on a tall abandoned building at 3rd and Mission Street, and Extinct over a Shell gas station. He resides in San Francisco, California.
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R. H. Quaytman is an American contemporary artist, best known for paintings on wood panels, using abstract and photographic elements in site-specific "Chapters", now numbering 35. Each chapter is guided by architectural, historical and social characteristics of the original site. Since 2008, her work has been collected by a number of modern art museums. She is also an educator and author based in Connecticut.
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Sharon Hayes is an American multimedia artist. She came to prominence as an artist and an activist during the East Village scene in the early '90s. She primarily works with video, installation, and performance as her medium. Using multimedia, she "appropriates, rearranges, and remixes in order to revitalize spirits of dissent". Hayes's work addresses themes such as romantic love, activism, queer theory, and politics. She incorporates texts from found speeches, recordings, songs, letters, and her own writing into her practice that she describes as “a series of performatives rather than performance.”
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