Miah Artola creates interactive installations and multi-platform projects that combine fine arts and poetry with new media. She creates short-form documentaries, projections, animations, paintings, and installations that enlist motion activation (using MaxMSP) and audio activation (using Audio Peak Etcher, a software she co-created).
Miah, who is of Nicaraguan descent, created a multi-platform project on Nicaraguan poetry and politics which featured Sergio Ramirez. Then, from 2018-2023, Miah developed “…and also with you”, a multi-platform work based on the narrations of individual asylum seekers. Filming took place in Nicaragua, Mexico City, Texas, New York, and throughout the Yucatán
Miah’s work has been shown in numerous venues, such as Harvestworks, PS1/MoMA, Pioneer Works, EV Gallery, Union Docs, Anthology Film Archives, The Wild Project, and Experimental Intermedia. Residencies include Governor’s Island “Public Works Foundation”; grants include Arts Corps and New York Foundation for the Arts
As a producer, Miah and Wolfgang Von Stuermer staged the monthly AV event, ab uno pluribus, from 2014 to 2019. Currently, Miah is producing and participating in Mixed Poetics, a trans-media showcase that uses text as its launching point, typically non-fiction text or poetry. Participants use film, dance, projection, music, performance art, sound, digital tools, or sculptural installation with the incorporation of text, thereby stretching their own dedicated practice.
Miah is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts, and founder of Artola Digital, a post-production company.
MIAH ARTOLA
Artist, Editor, Educator, Producer
Editing
Artola Digital, Owner 2005- present. New York, NY
All post-production demands: Concept and Narrative Development, Color Grading, Audio Mixing
Software: Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, MaxMSP, Modul 8, Audition
Clients Include: Brooklyn Museum, DIA Chelsea, David Lee Roth, Phil Niblock, United Nations, Meredith Monk, ortvi, Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, CCS Bard, Naeem Mohaiemen, Duston Spear, Pier 59, Better Homes and Gardens, Roosevelt House, Pat Oleszko, The American Opera Project, Queens Museum, Museum of Natural History, SXSW, Dance Theater Workshop, HarperCollins
Selected One-Woman Shows
•2021 The Man from Eritrea EV Gallery. Motion-activated installation and paintings
•2017 Sanctuary at Sanctuary City Governor’s Island. Artist in Resident / Paintings and Audio-activated Installation
•2016 Far Away: Installation The Wild Project. 3-month Installation Motion-activated duel projections and paintings
•2015 I’m Not Telling You What To Do, But You Have To Do It: Interactive installation Silent Barn (5-month installation)
•2014-The Problem of Memory Harvestworks Interactive audio-activated installation
Selected Group Shows
2024 screening at Roulette Intermedia “Phil Niblock Forever”
2024 screening at Union Docs: Art Jones showcase “Word, Sound, Power”
•2023 Screening of Lucky documentary short at Maysles Documentary Center
•2022 Two-person installation at EVG Stream
•2021 Screening with Poetry without Boundaries REEL/poetry El Caballo Ahogado
•2020 Visual composer for Parish Art Museum Pennies from Heaven
•2019 Featured artist for Experimental Intermedia “Screen Compositions”, Kiryoku
•2018 Visual composer Cornelia Street Cafe Sound Traffic
•2017 Governor’s Island New York Poetry Festival 3-week screening of Nicaraguan Poetry Films
•2017 Selected artist for OptoSonic Tea, Pioneer Works Landlines
•2016 Anthology Film Archives, Screening of documentary Far Away
•2016 Pier 59 Studios, 2016 Large Scale Video Installation “The Great Beauty”
•2015 Flamboyán Theater 2015, Live Visualist Deer Run
•2015 Goodbye Blue Monday Group Show, Friend of the Night
•2014 Ft Tildon/ Studio 7, Group Show, Paintings “Land and Sea”
•2013 Museum of Natural History Live Visuals with Glowing Pictures Blue Blue Blue
•2012 Issue Project Room 2012, Ear to Earth Festival Bodies in Light
•Additional Selected Venues where work has been shown include Ramis Barquet Gallery, 303 Gallery, Galapagos, Clocktower Gallery, Coney Island Amphitheater
Producing
2023-present: Conceived and Produced Mixed Poetics
2015 to 2020: Co-producer and innovator of monthly AV event: Ab Uno Pluribus
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Affiliations
2020-present: CAFEMIN refugee center; Ciudad de México
2020: Refugee Center in New York City- WANA
2013-2018: Member of La Esperanza; Granada, Nicaragua
2005-2020: Member Miracle Garden, East Village New York
Teaching
2018- present: School of Visual Arts, Faculty Instructor
- BFA Department: Film: Premiere Pro, Advanced Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro
- BFA Department: Photo & Video. Video II
- CE: Visual Critical Studies— Course Development: Music Video DIY; Art of Editing
Feb 2024- Lead Instructor “Art Interventions” Bedford Women’s Correctional Facility
2016-2017 Creative Art Works: Painting, Drawing, Design, Editing, and Documentary Workshops
2014/15: Parsons “Time: Composition”
2013. Author: “Final Cut Pro for the Visual Mind”
Press etc.
•2022: Grant: New York Foundation for the Arts; Sky.
•2022: Press: Featured Artist; Epicenter
•2021: Grant: Arts Corp; The Man from Eritrea
•2018: Residency: Governors Island; Sanctuary City
•2017 Press: Creative Tech Week; Women in Creative Technology
•2014: Co-creator: APE (Audio Peak Etcher) VJ software
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Education
Pratt Institute
The New School: MA (Media Studies)
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