Visiting Artist

Rude Mechs

Multi-Disciplinary Collective of Theater Artists
Rude Mechs gave a Visiting Artist Performance at the Arts Research Center on November 16, 2015.

Since 1996, Rude Mechs has been crafting a genre-defying slate of original theatrical productions infused with big ideas, humor, and stunning spectacle. Their work is characterized by the use of play in performance, theaters as gathering spaces for audiences and artists, and humor as a tool for intellectual exploration. Rude Mechs tours these performances nationally and internationally, operates CRASHBOX, a versatile space for rehearsal, performance, and workshops, maintains a...

Mario Santamaría

Postdigital Artist
Mario Santamaría was a Visiting Artist of the Internet Tour at the Arts Research Center on October, 2023 and 2024.

The artistic practice of Mario Santamaría (Burgos, Spain, 1985) studies the phenomenon of the contemporary observer, paying attention to two processes, the representational practices and the machines vision or mediation. Using different tactics such as appropiation, remake or assembly, his work involves different fields like the conflict, the memory, the virtuality or the surveillance. He has been a resident artist at Hangar (Barcelona, 2015),...

Alexandro Segade

Interdisciplinary Artist & Assistant Professor of Art at UCSD

Xandro Segade is an interdisciplinary artist whose queer world-building projects propose speculative group identities. Often working in collectives, Segade makes spaces for critical play, using collaboration to complicate utopian impulses with radical ambivalence. Segade’s practice traces connections across performance, writing and drawing, making video, installation, theater, sculpture, music, costumes and comics that defy genre distinctions, subverting contextual frameworks, disrupting the political imagination.

Segade’s multimedia science fiction performance...

Rolla Selbak

Filmmaker, Podcaster, and Storyteller
Rolla Selbak gave a Visiting Artist Lecture/Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 17, 2017.

Rolla Selbak is a Sundance alumna, and a writer/director of film and TV, with TV projects most recently in development at 20th Century Fox and Sony.She imprints her fresh point of view as a Palestinian American, having moved to the U.S after the first Gulf War, and often focuses on socially topical issues that unite audiences....

Shuddhabrata Sengupta

Artist, Writer, Curator, and Co-Founder of the Raqs Media Collective
Shuddhabrata Sengupta gave a Visiting Artist Lecture/Talk at the Arts Research Center on November 7, 2018.

Shuddhabrata Sengupta is co-founder, along with Monica Narula and Jeebesh Bagchi, of the Raqs Media Collective. Since its inception in 1992, the members of the Collective have worked in a wide range of forms and formats. In their words, “they create installations, make videos, photographs, print and online works, play with archival traces, make exhibitions and art interventions in public spaces,...

Tiffany Shlain

Filmmaker, Artist, and Author
Tiffany Shlain gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 17, 2017.

Tiffany Shlain is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, speaker,bestselling author...

Gregory Sholette

Artist, Writer, Teacher, Activist, and Professor of Professor of Sculpture and Social Practice at CUNY Queens College
Gregory Sholette was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Creative Time Conference at the Arts Research Center in October 2013.

Dr. Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, teacher and activist. He is a Professor at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), as well as Co-Director with Professor Chloë Bass of the Andrew A. Mellon Foundation funded project Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY) headquartered in the Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, and was an associate of the Art, Design and the Public Domain program of...

Daniel Leeman Smith

Director, Playwright, Dramaturg, Producer, and Program Manager of NYU's Creative Career Hub
Daniel Leeman Smith gave a Visiting Writer/Scholar/Director Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 10, 2024. Daniel Leeman Smith is a proud two-spirit citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. He is a New York City based director, playwright, dramaturg, producer, and theatre educator whose work is positioned at the intersection of art, education, community, and activism, focusing on Native joy.

Recent credits include Stories of the Land (Dramaturg, Long Wharf Theatre), Chicago: Pigeon (Dramaturg, New Native Play Festival, Yale Indigenous Performing...

Sunny A. Smith

Dean of Fine Arts and Professor of Sculpture at CCA
Sunny A. Smith was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Situated Symposium at the Arts Research Center on October 10, 2011.

Sunny A. Smith (they/them) is a queer trans* non-binary artist, time traveler, and practical animist based in Yelamu and Huchiun a.k.a. the San Francisco Bay Area, on unceded Ohlone territory.

Smith has presented their work at museums such as SFMOMA, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Arts Club of Chicago, and S!GNAL Center for Contemporary Art, P.S.1/MoMA, Palais de Tokyo, the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, MASS MoCA, and...

Spatula&Barcode

Professors in the Department of Art at University of Wisconsin - Madison

Spatula&Barcode (Laurie Beth Clark and Michael Peterson) makes social practice art, creating variously-scaled performative gatherings around the central values of commensality, conviviality, and criticality.

Spatula&Barcode combines many activities in our projects: cooking and eating, interviews and interactions, social media, photography, writing, scholarship, and public events. Spatula&Barcode is the umbrella name for the work that Michael Peterson and Laurie Beth Clark make together, but we often say that anyone who works with us on one of the...