VR Art Camp SHOW & TELL
With River Black, Maria Guzmán Capron, Erica Molesworth and Hannah Waiters

Experience being in a virtual art piece while engaging in a conversation with the artist!
Please join our Show & Tell in the Art Camp Commons in Mozilla Hubs*, when resident artists give a 20 min tour in their VR studios that they’ve built during their residency.

Link will be sent upon registration.
10-11:30am PST // 6-7:30pm CET

Schedule (PST):
9:45-10:00 Warm Up Exercise - learn how to move around
10:00-10:10 Intro in Art Camp Commons
10:10-10:30 Erica Molesworth
10:30-10:50 Maria Guzmán Capron
10:50-11:10 River Black
11:10-11:30 Hannah Waiters

If this is your first time in Mozilla Hubs, please join our warm up exercise 15 minutes before the Show & Tell at 9:45 am PST! We'll show you the basic technical skills so you can participate in the event the most comfortably. Fast internet and computer (with a mouse ;) can make a difference in your experience.
Here is a video that helps to navigate in the Art Camp Commons: https://youtu.be/X-xExAiofHA

Art Camp is a homesome virtual art residency and gathering, an alternative to our many missing social events. Womxn and underrepresented artists investigate the possibilities of creating and inhabiting a communal place with care that is accessible both on a browser and in virtual reality. The residency accumulates in the Show & Tell on the last Sundays of every second month.
www.vrartcamp.net

ABOUT our May Cohort:
River Black works with performance, sound art, and installation, often involving the viewer as participant. A large body of her work deals with sex work, beginning with pieces in the SOMArts exhibition "We're Still Working: The Art of Sex Work." As a graduate student at California College of the Arts she co-founded the Sex Workers Student Union, the first
institution-sanctioned group of sex workers to organize on a college campus in North America. River also co-founded useless initiatives, a collective that creates platforms for womxn and underrepresented artists to workshop their performances; useless initiatives also hosts Haptic Encounters workshops inspired by Lygia Clark. With everyday people she encounters, River continues her long-running performance Sex Worker Ambassador, her Ask Me Anything avatar, as a way to complicate and interrogate stereotypes while demystifying her own lived experience. Throughout this work, River addresses issues of agency, desire, precarity, feminist labor, and familial belonging.

Maria Guzmán Capron (b. 1981 in Milan, Italy to Colombian and Peruvian parents) lives and works in Oakland, CA. She received an MFA from California College of the Arts in 2015 and her BFA from the University of Houston in 2004. Recent exhibitions include Snail Shell — pt.2 Gallery, Oakland,CA; Female Trouble 2 — CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA; Body Spray — Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY; Don’t Eat Me — Deli Gallery in Brooklyn, NYC; and Through Her Eye — Mana Contemporary in Chicago, IL. In addition, she is a parent and works at NIAD Art Center as a part-time facilitator.
http://mariaaguzman.com/

Erica Molesworth is an artist working across video and installation. She is interested in landscapes that integrate the natural and artificial, and their symbiotic relationship with human economies. She was born in Sydney, Australia, completed undergraduate studies in Media Arts at the University of Sydney, and an MFA in 2015 at the California College of the Arts (CCA). Erica has exhibited widely, including at Lishui Festival in China, NARS and Mery Gates in Brooklyn, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, in the John Fries Memorial Prize and Firstdraft in Sydney, Channels Video Festival in Melbourne, University of Massachusetts and the University of Nevada. She has been awarded fellowships at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Vermont Studio Center, Lighthouse Works, MASS MoCA Studios, Wassaic Project, New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS), and Bay Area Video Coalition among others. She has received an Australian Postgraduate Award, a CCA graduate merit scholarship and teaching fellowship, and the Australia Council's ArtStart grant. She is visiting faculty at Parsons/New School NY, and previously at CCA and SFAI in the Bay Area. She has given visiting artist lectures at Stanford and the Living Room Light Exchange, and was also a co-founder of Oakland's art space CTRL+SHFT Collective.
ericamolesworth.com

Hannah Waiters is a Bay Area-based Black visual researcher and conceptual artist. Her conceptual material art practice interests include museum studies, Black Atlantic philosophy, historical phenomenology in art history, and historical materialism. She completed her MFA in Fine Arts and MA in Visual & Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts. Waiters is currently a research fellow in Contemporary & American art at the de Young museum extending her graduate studies research on preserving conceptual postmodern Black erasure in relation to gentrification's local dynamics.

How is it that we come to find our home in a world that displaces marginalized memories about local landscapes surrounding and informing new dimensions of narrative possibility under glass? This project took the form of a vitrine showcasing a living archive of neglected Peninsula landscapes whose erasure has been preserved here as a metaphor under glass; preserved erasure under both computer screen and mirrored glass display cases. This experiential vitrine employed walking and witnessing methodologies to complicate our relationship to natural and urban landscapes in the Peninsula in the wake of urban renewal. Themes and aesthetics of both Black Atlantic philosophy and museum studies here enlarge how we think about exhibitions and, more broadly, archival/institutional displacements that marginalize local landscapes and perpetuate the erasure of larger local socio-cultural narratives.
@waiter2z

Space is limited to 21 active participants. As a Room Guest, you may engage in conversation with the artists after the presentations. In case the room is full, you can still watch the event from the Lobby, which is limited for viewing only. Please arrive on time in order to be our Room Guest! (Link will be sent upon registration)

Your generous donations support the collective labor of Art Camp artists and to maintain our gatherings, but no-one turned away for lack of funds. NOTAFLOF

*Mozilla Hubs is accessible with or without VR headsets, simply in your browser (computer, phones, tablets etc.) - best on Firefox.
Use these keys for navigation:
Arrow keys or
WS (move forward-back)
AD (move left-right)
cursor or QE for rotation
holding SHIFT makes your move faster
press G to enable flying mode (and don’t get stuck on 3D objects)
or find further info here: https://hubs.mozilla.com/docs/hubs-controls.html