I work with tactile objects that then become interactive elements, creating a sense of concurrent realities, and of actions having form.

FAR AWAY, INSTALLATION

 Two month solo show The Wild Project. September 12-October 13th 2016 &November 22-December 21, 2016

“Far Away, installation” demonstrates our propensity to own, and the resulting disruption of natural environments and indigenous community.

 I am of Nicaraguan descent and return to Nicaragua every year to work on my multi-platform project on poetry in Nicaragua.

When approached, a wall sized projection of volcanos in Nicaragua begin to disintegrate. Your movements in front of the volcano will also, at the same time, create multitudes of drawings and video imagery on the opposite side of the room. This imagery (drawings, paintings, film)  are inspired by the poem “The Drowned Horse” by Pablo Antonio Cuandra, which warned of imperialist threat. The imagery is also in physical form on the third wall of the space.

Miah Artola: “Far Away, installation”

Stills from Wild Project installation

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“Far Away” is a multi-platform ( documentary shorts,  fine art, interactive installations) project on poetry in Nicaragua. Participants include previous Vice President (and 2017 César Award winner) Sergio Ramirez. BACKGROUND I am of Nicaraguan descent and began filming in Nicaragua during visits in Nov. 2013 and November 2015.  I return to Nicaragua in February 2018  to complete filming.

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SANCTUARY CITY

 Residency at Governor’s Island. Autumn 2017

Five wall size paintings of refugee land with audio activated projected arabic text on the floor and through the windows. The arabic is a poem on traveling across the Mediterranean sea, written  by an anonymous Syrian refugee. Final show included a live performance with vocal artist Ami Yamasaki

 

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Two shows with Hitomi Honda

IMPROVISAION/ ETHNOGRAPHY

1. January 2018 Interactive visuals with pianist Hitomi Honda at the New York University PhD Waverly Labs for Music and Computing for AV showcase. Un-rehearsed improvisation with only the theme of allowing for mistakes (as in the title) and the non-stop mistakes of humanity. To explore the theme of ethnography, I show hand made drawings and Arabic refugee poetry,  as well as a video of a starling murmuration. 

 2. Cornelias Street CafeAudio Activated projection using APE to Hitomi Honda’s piano; “Sound Traffic” 2018 show at Cornelia Street Cafe

Photos of Events using APE

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LAND LINES 

10th Annual OptoSonic Tea at PIONEER WORKS

April 2017 Projections

Line drawings responding to environmental audio, specifically the sounds emanating from  the floor

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I’M NOT TELLING YOU WHAT TO DO, BUT YOU HAVE TO DO IT: Five month installation at Silent Barn, August 2015-January 2016

Braile lights are projected when you walk up the stairs. The staircase is lined with canvasses of sewed braille that say” I am not telling you what to do but you have to do” which is a line from a narration by someone I met in Nicaragua. As you walk up the stairs, you activate the entire narrative which discusses the role of American imperialism in central american poverty.

” I am not telling you what to do but you have to do”. Hand sewn canvass of this narration.

   

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THE PROBLEM OF MEMORY Solo show at Harvestworks. April 2015

Memories as objects.
Participants can listen using earphones to a track I created of poetry, music and conversations whose frequency and amplitude are generating the visuals on two different walls.
When participants talk into one of the provided microphones,  the visuals are impacted — and this impact is recorded and looped in the next visual rotation— creating a permanent mark.
Eventually however,  the mark is altered and distorted by new imagery that the new voices have added.

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2013, Mountain video projected on trees Ulster County, NY with Share

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Many of my projection are made using my original software “APE” ( co-created with programmer Thomas Martinez)

 

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