News from the School of IAS
Queer and Trans POC sex worker perspectives
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum, in collaboration with the Seattle LGBTQ Commission, the Seattle Commission for People with DisAbilities, SWOP-Seattle, and the Coalition for the Rights and Safety for People in the Sex Trade, led a public forum at Seattle City Hall featuring the voices of Queer and Trans POC in the sex industry. The event, which attracted approximately 70 community members, focused on the crisis caused by recent federal legislation (SESTA/FOSTA) on the lives of the minoritized ...
December 5, 2018
Kristine Mroczek presents “Markers of ‘Indigenous-made’ Souvenirs”
IAS faculty member Kristine Mroczek presented her work at the National Communication Association annual conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. The title of her poster presentation was “Markers of ‘Indigenous-made’ Souvenirs: The Semiotic and Discursive Production of ‘Authenticity’ and Cultural Capital in Australian Aboriginal Tourism Arts."
December 5, 2018
Travis Sharp publishes new artist’s book: one plus one is two ones
MFA alum Travis Sharp just published his artist’s book! one plus one is two ones (Recreational Resources, 2018) is a mass-produced handmade book about fake math and infinity, hand-written (in part an homage to Hanne Darboven's hand-written alternative mathematics conceptual art projects) & scanned & reproduced in an unlimited edition via CreateSpace. The work also includes many of Sharp’s drawings of hashtags and a procedural erasure of his Twitter feed via Fibonacci, patron saint of Twitter infinity.
December 5, 2018
Ismaila Maidadi champions equitable access to labor support services at Workforce Snohomish
Alum Ismaila Maidadi has been a tremendous asset to Workforce Snohomish since joining the organization as Service Delivery Program Manager in 2017. Thus far, Maidadi’s largest contribution has been leading the National Dislocated Worker Grant and Rapid Response initiative which assists dislocated aerospace employees and their families. Maidadi immigrated to America from ...
December 5, 2018
Natalie Singer named to 35 over 35 list of debut authors
MFA alum Natalie Singer (’16) is thrilled to be recognized among 35 authors over age 35 who published their first book this year. 35 over 35 is an alternative to the publishing industry’s fixation on youth, acknowledging that few authors find early success. Singer’s memoir California Calling: A Self-Interrogation was published last March by Hawthorne Books. Says Singer ...
December 4, 2018
Asia Foundation Highlights Anida Yoeu Ali in New Exhibition Challenging Patriarchy
The Asia Foundation highlighted IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali as one of 11 female artists and filmmakers challenging patriarchy in a new exhibition titled “FRAME: How Asia Pacific Feminist Filmmakers and Artists Are Confronting Inequalities.” The exhibition opened Nov 27, 2018 at the Griffith Film School Gallery in Brisbane, Australia and ran on the eve of the 12th annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
December 3, 2018
Amaranth Borsuk interviewed by UW News on THE BOOK
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk’s work on The Book (2018, MIT Press) is highlighted in a new interview on the UW News site. The article, “Papyrus scrolls to Kindle and beyond: UW professor pens meditation on ‘the book,’” begins: “What is a “book” in the digital age — and what will it become? In a new book of her own, Amaranth Borsuk discusses the idea of “the book” through its incarnations as clay tablets, papyrus scrolls and the bound sheets of a codex on to the hyperlinked, multimedia format of the digital age.” Read the full interview.
November 29, 2018
Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung present “Imagination Stations: Heads in the Cloud”
IAS faculty members Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung presented their current research project "Imagination Stations: Heads in the Cloud" at the 32nd annual conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA)—Out of Mind—in Toronto, Canada, November 15-18, 2018. The project involves ...
November 28, 2018
Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali featured on King 5 TV and The News Tribune for their new public art work
IAS Artists-in-Residence Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali’s latest collaborative installation was prominently featured on King 5 TV and The News Tribune. On November 11, 2018 Ali and Sugano unveiled their new public artwork titled “Hello. How Are You?” on their own front yard located in Tacoma, Washington. Comprised of bright white letters measuring 4 feet in height, the large-scale outdoor installation spells out the common American greeting “Hello. How are you?” For their special launch event ...
November 28, 2018
Ted Hiebert presents a meditation on “When thought insults itself”
IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert presented a meditation on "When thought insults itself" at the Tuning Speculation 6 conference—Auscultations | Occultations, Listening to the Occult—in Bloomington, IN, November 2-4, 2018. The paper argues ...
November 28, 2018