Media Art Salon: Fluid Identity
This salon features artists who explore identity by nurturing virtual beings. Avatars emerge from the ebbs and flows of resilient femme practice amid the rising tides of South Florida identity politics. In the daily lived existence of climate catastrophe, bodies become vessels – they take on forms, stand in for moments in time and reflect our stories back into the costumes and mannerisms that adorn them.
Fluid Identity includes the work of Miami-based artists Ruth Burrote, Adrienne Rose Gionta and Tara Long. Each of these artists iterates through their lived identity by creating worlds and populating them with extensions of themselves.
For decades, AdrienneRose Gionta has explored the bias of representation of the female body embedded within the techno-utopian ideals of Silicon Valley. Through her practice of resilience Gionta makes space for fat avatars to thrive within game engines that are coded to reject non-conforming female forms.
Tara Long’s practice of identity evolves through many iterations – punk, healer, painter, nymph. Within these versions of herself, Long sculpts her lived experience into divine forms of resilience.
Ruth Burrote’s vast illustrated universes are populated with vivid characters that personify her lived experiences as a first-generation Haitian immigrant. Collapsing time and cultural space, Burrote animates in a singular street-inspired manga aesthetic, her more well developed characters moving from 2D to 3D to enter our world and claim space for their stories.
Join us to conjure these avatars and identities in the Oolite Little River Satellite Space. The salon gathering will begin at 7PM, with performance and intimate shares of work-in-progress from the artists. Conversation and pizza will follow.
Thank you to MAD Arts for providing generous support to the Oolite Media Art Salon.
About the Artists
Ruth Burotte is a Haitian-American New World School of the Arts graduate in art and technology. Born in Queens, then raised in Forest Park, Georgia, she now lives in Miami. She works in mediums such as illustration, painting, motion design and animation. Her focus is character design with inclusions of story-telling. Ruth has been involved in local urban art projects to lead communities in a new cultural direction.
AdrienneRose Gionta analyzes identity and cultural assumptions about fatness, beauty standards, embodiment, and fulfillment on and offline. She works with avatars to create inclusive environments in imagined digital worlds where fat-bodied women have it all. In doing this, she responds to limiting social standards imposed on her as a fat woman, from beliefs about acceptable norms within pop culture to personal fulfillment.
Tara Long, a Miami native, is a versatile artist known for her work in performance, video, software development, AI, and oil painting. Her creative journey is deeply rooted in the exploration of self-identity, a response to early orphanhood trauma. Long employs various personas, deconstructs and reconstructs origin stories, and uses surrogates to magnify facets of her identity. Through this process, she navigates a diverse range of experiences, transcending established narratives, overcoming past pain and shaping a transformative artistic path.
About Mad Arts
The event is presented with support from Mad Arts, which works with artists, designers and creatives whose work has the capacity to take visitors outside of their own reality and set them up in moments of deep reflection. Mad Arts offers new pathways to experience life and art. Powered by Madlabs, Mad Arts has access to a comprehensive studio with over 17,000 square feet of the industry’s most cutting-edge virtual production space. This allows Mad Arts to serve as a laboratory for research and development where engineers, architects and creatives can work alongside artists to expand digital horizons.
Date/Time
Wed, Oct. 11, 2023
7 – 9 p.m.
Oolite Satellite
7297 NW 2nd Ave
Miami Fl 33150
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