Current + Upcoming
2024 & 2025
Sep - Dec, 2024 — Writer-in-Residence, Writing Space, Chicago. In this residency I’m working to expand Seeing it for the Trees, so stay tuned for what comes of that all.
Oct 26, 2024 — “Flipside,” 120710 Gallery, Berkeley, CA. My video work will be screened in this evening of short videos, curated by Beth Krebs. Works in the show construct vivid speculative worlds or turn the familiar one inside out.
Dec 12, 2024 - Jan 5, 2025 — “Phygital Care,” Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, CA. I will be showing some new work in this exhibition that explores intangible care as collective practice to balance moving in-between analog and digital spaces that are not divided anymore. Curated by Judit Navratil. Opening event on Dec 14.
March 5, 2025 — Global Feminist Forum, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. I’ll be presenting video work and discussing it in a screening/panel titled “Media, Gender, and the Performing Self: Reconstructing Identity Online and On-Screen,” together with Lark Adler and Minoosh Zomorodinia.
March 2025 — “M(other)ing,” Perspective Gallery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. I’ll have work in this group exhibition that considers mothering and design. More information coming soon.
earlier in 2024
Jul 18-21, 2024 — San Francisco Art Book Fair, SF, CA. My artist book, Seeing it for the Trees, will be available for sale at the Prelinger Library exhibitor table, as well as some zines from my collective, Anxious to Make.
Feb 16 - Jun 30, 2024 — “SLIME,” Secession, Wein, Germany and online. I have three video works in this unique hybrid on-line and on-site project about our hybrid realities. The exhibition takes its name from the children’s toy—a metastable plasma-like substance that has both unique material and tactile features and a constant presence online through tutorials and documentation of people playing with it—SLIME tackles the social, cultural, political, and sensory operations of digital hybridity.
Feb 5 - 29, 2024 — Critical Code Studies Working Group, (sponspored by USC and UCSB), online. I’ll be participating in this major online think tank for Critical Code Studies, a hub of dialogue and collaborative inquiry that generates major thrust in the reading of code.
2023
Nov 22 - Nov 26, 2023 — “Démondé,” STIFF 2023, SKC Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia. My two person art collective, Anxious to Make, has work in this exhibition which addresses themes of passage of time and change over the last decade.
Sep 19 - Dec 3, 2023 — Art+Process+Ideas: Liat Berdugo, Heeso Kwon, Ranu Mukherjee at Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA. I'll have new work up in this three-person exhibition, alongside brilliant artists. Opening event will be on Saturday, September 30, 5-8pm.
Oct 12 - 14, 2023 — “VIDEOMEDEJA: 27th Annual New Media Art Festival,” KS Svilara, Novi Sad, Serbia. My video work, “Through the Gallery,” will be screening at this event that brings together international and regional artists in a festival of primarily avant-garde social culture.
Oct 5 - 27, 2023 — “Screen Matters,” curated by the Golden Pixel Cooperative, Medienwerkstatt Wien, Vienna, Austria. More info coming soon.
Sep 9, 2023 at 2pm — “Seeing it for the Trees,” Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA. I will present a performative lecture critically examining the role of forests in the formation and maintenance of Zionism. Instead of using a central screen, this event will use live computer code to text images to the phones of audience members during the event. Free + open to the public, but RSVPs required.
July 15, 2023 — “A Very Human Screening” curated by Insomniac Film Festival in partnership with Vector Festival 2023, Charles Street Video, Toronto, Canada.
July 12 - 15, 2023 — “Overcoming Divides,” Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) 2023 Exhibition, Coimbra, Portugal.
July 10 - 12, 2023 — “Transformations: Explorations Through Video Art,” Starta Arta, New York, NY. Jul 10 - 12, 2023. Opening on July 10 from 6-8pm (rsvp here).
Jun 1 - 3, 2023 — Design Writing Fellowship (online). I’ll be facilitating and directing the articles track of this fellowship program that assists scholarly pursuits within the field of design. I’ll also be presenting my own work in a talk titled “Public and Academic Scholarship.” Participation by application only.
Mar 19 - Jun 11, 2023 — “Material/Inheritance”, Jewish Museum Maryland, Baltimore, MD. I’ll be presenting new work, “Seeing it For the Trees”, at the opening on Sunday, March 26, 2pm — register here.
Sep 2022 through May 2023 — Fellow with New Jewish Culture Fellowship through May 2023. I’ll be working on a new project having to do with ecology, settler colonialism, and my own family history in Israel/Palestine.
Mar 14, 2023 at 12pm PST — I’ll be giving a public artist talk at Mills College at Northeastern University as part of the Art + Process + Ideas Residency. The talk is free and open to the public, and will take place at the Danforth Lecture Hall.
Mar 6 - Apr 16, 2023 — “If I’d Known Then: Art + Architecture Faculty Triennial”, Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. Opening reception on March 6, 3-5pm.
Feb 5 - Mar 26, 2023 — “…displacing,” Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN. My collective Anxious to Make will have video work screened in this exhibition on tourism and travel as an extension of colonialism. The exhibition will coincide with the Tennessee Triennial.
Feb 16, 2023, 5pm PST — I’ll be presenting my work at the New Media Caucus’s annual showcase, a rapid-fire, juried selections of talk by media arts practitioners in conjunction with the College Art Association Annual Conference.
Jan - Aug 2023 — Art + Process + Ideas Residency, Mills College Art Museum + Art and Visual Culture Department, Mills College at Northeastern, Oakland, CA.
2022
Dec 19-29, 2022 — The Pony Farm Artist Residency, Pioneer, CA. I’ll be an artist-in-residence at this program sponsored by the California Arts Council, the Amador County Arts Council, and Art Works. There will be an open house and public talk on Thursday, Dec 28 from 4-7pm.
Dec 1 - 4, 2022 — Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. I’ll be presenting a digital humanities research project titled “A Tree in Palestine: A photographic view of afforestation as a tool for colonization and control “ in a panel titled “Visual Arts and Images of Nationhood, Legacy, and Memory.”
Sep. 30 - Oct 1, 2022 — Future Bodies Symposium, Blacksburg, VA. I’m excited to participate in this symposium presented by the New Media Caucus. I’ll be speaking on a panel about Data, Surveillance + Marginalization.
Sep 22, 2022 — My book, The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East, is released in paperback from Bloomsbury / I.B.Tauris
Sep 10 - Oct 2, 2022 — “Future Bodies”, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. My collective Anxious to Make will be showing video work in the exhibition in the Moss Art Center. Opening hours are M-F 8 AM-5:30 PM, Sat 10 AM-4 PM.
Sep 11, 2022, 12pm PST — Voices From the Holy Land (VFHL) film series (online). I’ll be a panelist at this event which discusses the film Skies Above Hebron (2020, dir. Esther Hertog and Paul King. Free and open to the public, but RSVP required.
June 2 - 4, 2022 — Design Writing Fellowship (online). I’ll be facilitating and directing the articles track of this fellowship program that assists scholarly pursuits within the field of design. I’ll also be presenting my own work in a talk titled “Public and Academic Scholarship.” Participation by application only.
Nov 1, 2021 to March 1, 2022 — The Wrong Biennale, “Encounters with Incomprehension” pavilion. My collective Anxious to Make will have work up in the pavilion curated by Justice Hager, as part of the 2021-22 edition of The Wrong, a digital art biennale.
Fri, March 4, 2022, 9am PST — College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference / online. I’ll be chairing a panel titled “NFTs: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, The New, The Sexy, The Money,” as part of the New Media Caucus’s programming in the MediaLounge, which is free and open to the public.
Wed, February 23, 2022, 9am PST — “Made in Contact Artist Talk”, Asylum Arts (online). I’ll be in conversation with artist Milcah Bassel and writer Arielle Angel about an project we did in loose collaboration with each other. RSVP required.
Wed, February 9, 2022, 10am PST — DePaul School of Design Talks / online. I’ll be speaking about my work in this series that leading designers who have created innovative responses to the personal, local, and global challenges of the 21st century. Free and open to the public, RSVP required.
Sun, February 6, 2022, 12pm PST — Voices from the Holy Land / online. I will be a panelist at this online film series that presents compelling documentary films by Israeli, Palestinian, American, and European film makers to start conversations. Free and open to the public.
2021
November + December 2021 — VR Art Camp resident. During the month of November I will be a resident artist at VR Art Camp (curated by Judit Navratil), in which I’ll be creating a VR studio online. Stay tuned for a culminating virtual event on Dec 19, 2021 at 2pm PST.
Nov 30, 2021 at 6-9pm — IRL Art Camp at Beauty Supply, Oakland, CA. My collective’s video piece, Work Work Work, is screening as part of a week-long gathering of VR Art Camp’s Artists, rooted in the virtual communal efforts of the residency cohorts. Free, RSVP required.
Nov 29 - Dec 3, 2021 — Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Conference, online. I will be presenting on my new book, The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East, on a panel titled “Art Histories of Design and Visualization” on Dec 1 at 8:30am PST. I am also chairing the panel, “Palestine International: Resistance from Algeria to Amman” on Dec 3 at 8:30am PST.
Nov 16, 2021 at 6:30pm PST — “The Visual is Political: Citizen Videography and Documentary Cinema in Israel/Palestine”, University of San Francisco’s Jewish Studies and Social Justice lecture series, online. I will be speaking about my new book, The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East, in this wonderful series that considers social justice as it relates to Judaism. Free and open to the public, but RSVP required.
Nov 10, 2021 at 12:00pm PST — “Active Art”, Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA (online). I will be in conversation with artist Pantea Karimi about use art to make a statement about matters related to Jewish and Islamic traditions. This event is co-sponsored by the Madrasa-Midhrasha Program at the Center for the Arts and Religion. Free and open to the public, but RSVP required.
Nov 8, 2021 at 12:30pm PST — Berkeley Center for New Media Commons Conversation (online). I will be in conversation with Keith Feldman, author of A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America, about my new book, The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East. Free and open to the public, but RSVP required.
Oct 29, 2021 at 1:00pm PST — “Designing your Research Agenda 1.2”, Design Incubation (online). I will be a panelist at this event in which design scholars and researchers discuss challenges and opportunities within the design research field. Free and open to the public, but RSVP required.
Oct 14-17, 2021 — “MOCA L.I.ghts: Night Visions,” Museum of Contemporary Art: Long Island. My video work will be screening in this pop-up projection gallery project, curated by Beth Giacummo.
Oct 6 - Dec 15, 2021 — Never Shall We Labour, Centre Cívic Can Felipa, Barcelona, Spain. My collective Anxious to Make (me + Emily Martinez) will be exhibiting our video, WWWork, in this exhibit that takes an activist and artistic approach to labor and exploitation, curated by Irene Angenica.
Oct 5, 2021, 7pm — “The Ostranenie Theatre,” The Plough, Farnham, Surrey. My collective Anxious to Make (me + Emily Martinez) will be exhibiting our video, Performative Validation for Working with Unfamiliar Materials, in this screening that addresses the art of 'making strange' as coined by Russian writer and critic Viktor Shklovsky. Curated by Anna Stevens.
Oct 4, 2021 — “Violence of Planting in Israel-Palestine”, The Architectural Review, Issue 1485: Tree. I’ve written a new essay on tree planting as a tool for colonization and land-expropriation for this special issue of the magazine that unpacks the heavy symbol that is the tree.
Sep 29-Oct 1, 2021 — Refamiliarization, Platform Artspace and Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA. My collective Anxious to Make (me + Emily Martinez) has a video collection on view in this exhibition that speculates on technologies that interrupt the habituation compelled by COVID-era domestic data extraction and quotidian mediations. On view daily from 12 - 8pm. Opening reception on Sep 29 from 4-5:30pm.
Sep 17-29, 2021 — 5th International Bad Video Art Festival, Gallery Bomba, Moscow, Russia. My collective Anxious to Make (me + Emily Martinez) is proud to have our video, Tough Love Generator, in this festival celebrating the intersection of bad art, bad painting and bad cinema.
Aug 28, 2021 — Pandemic Projections: Visions for a New Normal, Gardenship.art, Kearny, NJ 07032. My video work will be screening in this drive-in art event in Jersey. Tune in on-site to 88.1 on your FM dial to listen. Curated by Wavelength in partnership with Gardenship.
Jul 28, 2021 at 4pm PST — University Film and Video Association (UVFA) Annual Conference, online. I’ll be giving the inaugural new media art keynote address, focusing on my work on embodiment, labor, and digitality.
Jul 11-15, 2021 — IAMCR Annual Conference, Nairobi, Kenya / Online. I’ll be presenting a paper titled “Double Shooting: Citizen videography in Israel and Palestine” in the Community Communication and Alternative Media Section of the conference, as well as exhibiting video work which is freely accessible here through Sep 11, 2021.
Apr 16, 2021 at 1:30pm PST — SLOMOCO, online. My performance, Internet Aerobics, will stream as part of the performance series at Movement & Computing 2021, otherwise known as SLOMOCO.
Apr 10, 2021 at 10am PST — Design Incubation Colloquium 7.3: Florida Atlantic University / online. I’ll be giving a short talk titled “Forensic Abstraction in Israel/Palestine: the Graphic Representations of Bodies in Citizen Media.” This event is free and open to the public, but RSVP is required!
Feb 25, 2021 at 5pm PST — OF CONSEQUENCE, a conversation between me and writer/scholar Linda Dittmar about my book, The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East, hosted by Consequence, an international literary journal focused on the experiences of conflict and geopolitical violence. The event is archived here.
Feb 9, 2021 at 5:30pm PST — Virtual book launch of my book, The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East, hosted by San Francisco’s Booksmith and The Bindery. The event is free and open to the public, but RSVP is required!
Feb 4, 2021 through eternity — “Disrupt and Reflect,” Impakt space, Utrecht, NL / online. I made a new video piece as Anxious to Make (Liat Berdugo + Emily Martinez) for this online web project that features creative and critical pieces about accelerationism, the attention economy, and the internet. There’s also an interview with me in which I confess that I do not meditate; and a new Anxious to Make survey. See our full contribution at disrupt.impakt.nl/#ANXIOUS_TO_MAKE.
2020
Dec 18-20, 2020 — Third Annual Ojo de Agua film festival, online. My video piece about work in a post-capitalist work, “After Work | Four Future” (produced as Anxious to Make / Liat Berdugo + Emily Martinez) will be screened online in this festival at www.aguasmigrantes.org.
Oct 30 - Nov 15, 2020 — < die digitale dusseldorf >, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf, Germany. My video “Making Others” (with Emily Martinez as Anxious to Make) will be exhibited at this year’s festival for digital art, music and contemporary criticism. <die digitale dusseldorf> focuses on the productive relationships between creativity and digital technology in subculture clubs and established cultural spaces.
Oct 8-11, 2020 — 4th International Bad Video Art Festival, Khodynka Gallery, Moscow, Russia. I'm happy to announce that you'll soon be able to see my crappy video art from grad school in this festival celebrating the intersection of bad art, bad painting and bad cinema (B-movies, cult, camp, trash).
Sep 22 & 29, 2020 at 7pm EST — Hot Steam 03, Boston / Online from Sep 1 - Oct 13. My work will be part of this video art festival that spotlights 38 artists selected from over 300 video submissions for their visual and experimental engagement with intertwined topics in science, art, and technology. My video work will be screened on Sep 22, 2020 at 7pm EST online and on Cambridge Community Television's Channel 8, and on Sep 29, 2020 at 7pm EST at Starlight Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sep 8-13, 2020 — Growing Our Networks in Uncertain Times ← → Places, Toronto / Online. My performance “Internet Aerobics,” will be part of this year’s conference about the past, present, and future of building our own network infrastructures. Our Networks brings together enthusiasts, hardware and software hackers, researchers, organizers and more to collectively explore creative and critical engagements with the Internet and alternative infrastructures.
Aug 20 - Sep 13, 2020 — h1dd3n 9all3ry d1g1tal3: digital secrets, Wallpassage, Düsseldorf, Germany. Die Digitale Düsseldorf festival for digital art, music and contemporary criticism presents international video art in the currently empty shops on wallstraße in the old town, including my video work “Making Others” with Emily Martinez.
Aug 6-31, 2020 — “Digital Touch,” Conscious Isolation / Online. My work, “The Zoom Series,” will be part of this exhibition of 22 artists whose work explores the dynamics between physical and digital bodies and the perception of tactility in digital spheres.
June 29 - July 18, 2020 — Bay Area Visual Arts Relief Grant Exhibition at Ever Gold [Projects] / online. See some new work of mine using the Internet Archive's Military Powerpoint Complex collection.
May 1-31, 2020 — FUTURE-FRAMED WORKS, Unrequited Leisure gallery, Nashville, TN / Online. This experimental group exhibition gathers moving images by four female artists tackling questions of the body, pop-culture, and the problems presented wherever we oscillate between the physical and the virtual. I'm honored to be in this exhibition together with Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, Rebecca Forstater and Bahareh Khoshooee in a show that questions the patriarchy, inclusion and accessibility, and cultural disparities on the internet.
Mar 3 - Apr 8, 2020 — Studio Visit: The Art + Architecture Faculty Triennial, Thacher Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Opening reception and artist-led tour on March 3, 3-5pm. The show is expected to stay open one week past the time when shelter-in-place is lifted.
Apr 28, 8-9 pm CET — Feminist Finance Zine Reading Room 1: Smash the patriarchy!, Twitter (online). I'll be a respondent for this 1-hour, online 'reading room' to celebrate the launch of Amateur Cities and the Institute of Network Cultures's Feminist Finance Zine. Topics of conversation will include economic exclusions, counter initiatives, alternative money design, and feminist currencies.
Mar 2020 — Heavy Breathing, San Francisco + online. I produced a 20-minute workout about the Internet, "Internet Aerobics," as part of Heavy Breathing's HB/AV, a series of artist-led movement seminars designed for audio/video download.
Feb 12 - 15, 2020 — College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL. I will be presenting two papers: "Eternal Boy Playground: an artistic critique of cryptocurrency, colonialism, and gender in a post-Maria Puerto Rico" and "The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: Video, Politics, and the Visual in Israel-Palestine." I will also be co-organizing a series of events, panels, and workshops for the New Media Caucus.
Jan 4 - Feb 2, 2020 — Solo show at Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN. My collective Anxious to Make will have a solo exhibition of its video works at this artist-run space in downtown Nashville. Opening Reception Jan 4, 6-10pm.