Tag: ARI Graduate Student Fellow

Jingtian Zong

Jingtian Zong Jingtian Zong is a multimedia artist interested in art’s power as resistance and social mediation. In the forms of interactive installations, interventions, videos, and adapted objects, her recent work discusses surveillance, collective memories, displacement, and manipulated history in and beyond the contemporary People’s Republic of China.
Saul Villegas

Saul Villegas Saul’s work seeks to recreate alternative memories and experiences to understand the self better and make the sublime visible. Using art to create a revolving system from the mental, physical, and virtual environment, he invites people to participate in the viewer experience through digital mixed-media works. These digital collages form a unique perception and an…
John Ortiz Vargas

John Ortiz Vargas John Ortiz is a filmmaker, editor, and photographer from Moravia, San José, Costa Rica. His work touches upon themes of language and communication, Indigenous land recovery movements in Central America, Latin American history, and political activism.
Lior Shamriz

Lior Shamriz Lior Shamriz creates films, installations, and music. Their work was presented at the Berlinale, Locarno IFF, Sarajevo IFF, MoMA’s ND/NF, BAFICI, Frameline, MixNYC, Torino IFF, Outfest, Walker Art Center, and the Lincoln Center in New York City, among other venues and festivals, and won awards at Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage. It received special showcases by the…
Balakrishnan Raghavan

Balakrishnan Raghavan Balakrishnan Raghavan is an accomplished musician, researcher, and educator. He is currently a doctoral student in cross-cultural musicology at the University of California Santa Cruz. Bala’s work focuses on oral traditions of music across the Indian subcontinent, with an emphasis on the politics of spirituality, sacred songs, South Asian performing traditions, mystical traditions,…
Chessa Adsit-Morris

Chessa Adsit-Morris Chessa Adsit-Morris is a curriculum theorist and assistant director of the Center for Creative Ecologies housed within the department of the History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She writes widely on the intersection of curriculum studies, posthumanism(s), ecological thought and SF, and is the author of…
Lee Chang Ming

Lee Chang Ming Lee Chang Ming is an artist from Singapore working across photography, publishing, video and writing, and is interested in themes of intimacy, gender, environment and the everyday. His practice contemplates the subjective act of looking and the photographic medium as a process, exploring ideas of optics and haptics. His current research focus…
Princess Kannah

Princess Kannah Acting, Stage Managing, Directing, you name it, and Princess Kannah probably dabbles. Princess is a multifaceted theatre artist who believes in living outside of boxes. She believes in a theatre experience that is an extension of her voice, a space in which marginalized stories are told, and a space that consistently asks us…
Ruebi Jimenez

Ruebi Jimenez Ruebi Jimenez is a researcher, poet, writer, and artist who has worked in the field of anthropology, feminist archaeology, and film production. Her research interests are ethnography, ethnopoetics, aging and technology, Sephardic Jewish Diaspora, and queer anthropology.
Gonzalo Galetto

Gonzalo Galetto Gonzalo Galetto is an Argentine-born artist currently based in Santa Cruz, California, where he is pursuing a PhD in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His work explores listening practices, modes of attention, and the blurring of boundaries between human and more-than-human worlds through field recordings and multichannel…