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Miah Artola is a multidisciplinary artist who combines Fine Arts with New Media. She creates short-form documentaries, paintings, projections, animations, and installations that enlist motion activation (using MaxMSP) and audio activation (Audio Peak Etcher, a software she co-created).
Miah is of Nicaraguan descent, and in 2013-2018, she created a multi-platform project on Nicaraguan poetry and politics, which featured Sergio Ramirez. Then, from 2019-2023, she developed “…and also with you”, a multi-platform work based on the narrations of individual asylum seekers. Filming took place in Texas, New York. Nicaragua, Mexico City, and throughout the Yucatán. This project was funded by grants from Artist Corp and New York Foundation for the Arts.
As a producer, Miah innovated the monthly AV event, “ab uno pluribus” (2014-2019), and currently produces “Mixed Poetics”, a trans-media showcase that enlists artists of all disciplines to create and perform works that use text as its launching point.
Miah is an editor, and in 2005, she formed Artola Digital, a post-production company; clients Include: Brooklyn Museum, DIA Chelsea, David Lee Roth, Phil Niblock, United Nations, Meredith Monk, and Institute for Studies on Latin American Art.
She is currently developing a documentary on refugees in New York City and another on artist Carolee Schneeman.
Since 2018, Miah has been a faculty instructor at the School of Visual Arts where she teaches in three departments: Film, Photo & Video, and Visual Critical Studies.
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