Stephanie E. Hanes was born in Alberta, Canada in 1985. In 2009 they received a BFA from The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Halifax, Canada. Hanes is a recent MFA Graduate of Ceramics at the Rhode Island School Of Design in 2017 and received the prestigious Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship for a graduate student with exceptional promise. Stephanie was one of the artists awarded the 2020 NCECA Emerging Artist Prize. In addition, they have exhibited Internationally with a solo show at C.R.E.T.A Rome Gallery in Italy and several group shows at Lefebvre et Fils Gallery in Paris, France. Their ceramic sculptures have been exhibited throughout the USA in New York City, Providence, Seattle, Portland, and Los Angeles. Hanes is a full-time lecturer in 3D4M at the University of Washington in Seattle, where they teach sculpture and ceramics.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• The male gaze vs the female gaze
• The art of turning the internal world into external objects
• Female bodies always changing to suit the patriarchal norms of the time
• Using the techniques of “chiaroscuro” and “englaze luster” in their sculptures
• Their research into queer and feminist theories
• Identity and gender expression
• Pansexuality
• Grappling with pain and suffering
• “À Priori” and “À Posteriori”
• Immanuel Kant’s writing on metaphysics
• Semiotics
• Following false prophets in our patriarchal society
• Their residency in Rome in 2014 where they started creating ceramic sculptures and where they created their body of work entitled, “Into The Looking Glass” @ C.R.E.T.A. Rome.
• The Medusa in symbolizm
• The extinguishing of female powers by the patriarchy
• Their decision into why they decided to get an MFA
• Teaching her university students about gender, equality, and diversity
• Making ideas palatable in art
• “Find a way to make work no matter what”

Authors and Book Recommendations:

• Bell Hooks
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• “Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto” by Legacy Russell
• “A Cyborg Manifesto” by Donna J. Haraway

Artists Mentioned:

• Carolee Schneemann
• Theaster Gates
• Simone Leigh
• Katy Schimert

Films and Documentaries Mentioned:

• Promising Young Woman (2020)
• Feminists: What Were They Thinking (2018)
• This Changes Everything (2018)

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Shari Frilot is a filmmaker who has produced television for the CBS affiliate in Boston and for WNYC and WNET in New York before creating her own independent award-winning films, including Strange & Charmed, A Cosmic Demonstration of Sexuality, What Is A Line?, and the feature documentary, Black Nations / Queer Nations? She is the recipient of multiple grants, including the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Media Arts Foundation. She is presently working on a feature film project about the crisis in water supply with producer Effie Brown's production company, Duly Noted Inc.

In tandem with filmmaking, Shari also maintains a career in festival programming, occupying a distinguished position on the curatorial vanguard through her pioneering development of immersive cinematic environments. As the Festival Director of the MIX Festival in New York (1992-1996) she co-founded the first gay Latin American film festivals, MIX BRASIL and MIX MEXICO film festivals. As Co-Director of Programming for OUTFEST (1998-2001), she founded the Platinum section which introduced cinematic performance installation and performance to the festival. She is presently in her 22nd year as a Senior Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival. She is the curator and driving creative force behind New Frontier, an exhibition and commissioning initiative that focuses on cinematic work being created at the intersections of art, film, and new media technology.

New Frontier 2022 Projects Discussed:

• “On The Morning You Wake (To The End of The World)” by Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Arnaud Colinart, and Pierre Zandrowicz
• “The State of Global Peace” by Daanish Masood Alavi
• “Gondwana” by Ben Joseph Andrews and Emma Roberts
•  “Suga” by Valencia James
• “The Inside World” by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
• “Web 3.0 / NFT Meetups” by Amelia Winger-Bearskin and Jesse Damiani
• “32 Sounds” by Sam Green
• “Seven Grams” by Karim Ben Khelifa

Other Topics Discussed:

• Transhumanism
• Identity
• Futurism
• “Notes on Blindness - Into Darkness” @ New Frontier 2016
• The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, Japan
• Projects on climate and social change
• NFTs and Web 3.0
• Handling hardship and pain
• Finding vitality in community
• Finding reasons to be optimistic
• Conscious and positive use cases for technology
• Systemic issues artists face in the US
• Building the immersive experience of Sundance’s spaceship through XR and VR with the creative studio Active Theory

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Artist Decoded is a weekly podcast hosted by Yoshino.

Join us as we dive into the habits, mindsets, and inner workings of some of today's greatest artists and creative thinkers. 

Trailer Credits (in order of appearance):

• Adam Hall
• Kate Zambrano
• Densil McFarlane @ The OBGMs
• Kris Esfandiari (King Woman)
• William von Hippel, Ph.D. (The Social Leap)

Yoshino is a visual artist, writer, entrepreneur, and host of Artist Decoded.

Show Notes:

• The power of introspection and self-analysis
• The pitfalls of following false prophets
• “Getting lost in the forest”
• Seeking answers
• Pantheism
• Art as a communication mechanism
• Critical thinking
• “You and you alone hold the answers to your questions.”

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