Spiritual Machines

Curator: Amelia Marzec
Amelia Marzec is a Brooklyn-based artist engaging with communications infrastructure to inform a speculative future, considering its ecological impact, and how gender, ethnicity, and hearing loss change the experience of using these systems. Her work has been exhibited at SIGGRAPH, MIT, ISEA (Canada), University of the Arts Helsinki (Finland), ONCE Foundation Contemporary Art Biennial (Spain), NODE Forum for Digital Arts Biennial (Germany), and is part of the New Museum’s Rhizome ArtBase. She has had residencies and fellowships with Eyebeam, Ox-Bow, Harvestworks, NYSCA/NYFA, and Columbia University, and was a visiting artist at the Center for Integrated Media at Calarts. She is the author of What Happened Here, a book on the alliance between Bell Labs and the U.S. Army and their land use. She holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design, and a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Curator: Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow is a Jamaican-American interdisciplinary artist based in NYC whose work draws from Caribbean folklore, feminism and spirituality. She holds a BFA with honors from University of Florida and an MFA from Hunter College. Her work has been featured internationally at venues such as The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific Experience, Seattle, WA, Chinese Historical Society of America, San Francisco, CA, Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY, Royal West Academy of England, UK, and National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, JA. Lyn-Kee-Chow co-authored Living Histories of Sugar in the Caribbean and Scotland: Transnationalisms, Performance and Co-creation, a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and presented in Kingston, JA, and Greenock and Edinburgh in Scotland (2022) and is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards including Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship (2024), KODA Residency on Governors Island, NY (2023), Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY (2023), and is an inaugural artist fellow of Triangle Arts, Brooklyn, NY (2022). Lyn-Kee-Chow’s work has been recently featured in Hyperallergic, White Hot Magazine, and Artsy.

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