User:Monikachez/Liat Berdugo

Background

Liat Berdugo is a twenty-first-century artist and writer currently living in Oakland, California. Her works focus on contemporary issues, namely capitalized militarization, technological utopianism, Middle Eastern conflicts, and labor.  She earned her MFA at Rhode Island School of Design and her BA from Brown University, currently, she works as an associate professor of Art and Architecture at the University of San Francisco. Her artworks have been exhibited in galleries such as Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), MoMA PS1 (New York), Transmediale (Berlin), V2_Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam), and The Wrong Biennale (online). Her written works have also been published in different online institutions.

Early Life & Education

Liat Berdugo spent most of her early years in Jerusalem and Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. In 2008, Liat Berdugo received a BA in Mathematics and a BA in Philosophy at Brown University in Providence, RI magna cum laude. In 2013, Berdugo received her MFA in Digital + Media at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI.

Works

Publications

Liat Berdugo's most recent publication "The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: Videography, Politics and the Visual in the Israel- Palestine Conflict" deals with how Palestinians dealt with the Israeli conflict through the art form of videography, is one of her most popular. Aside from this book, however, her writing has also appeared in numerous outlets including Rhizome and The Institute for Network and Art Cultures.

Artworks

Liat Berdugo is known for using her bright and eccentric style in order to truly highlight the conflict in our society. Much of her art uses "meme" formats and through her usage of bold fonts and clashing colors, she is able to carry a message across in a light-hearted but impactful way. Works like this includeThe Insufferable Whiteness of Being (2016) and Military Powerpoint Karaoke (2018). She is also known for her performance pieces, often using aerobics as a way to carry out her point, this is seen in Internet Aerobics (2018-2020) and Unpatentable Multitouch Aerobics (2015-2016). Berdugo is often commended for her modern take on timeless topics.

Career

Liat Berdugo is a writer and artist who delves into the scope of the Middle East, militarization, labor, capitalism, and more. Berdugo is currently an Associate professor of Art + Architecture at the University of San Francisco.

Co-founder, co-curator, and co-director of The Living Room Light Exchange (LRLX), a curatorial project created in 2014 of which dedication to new media art discussions take place in regards to intersections of art and technology in different living rooms in the Bay area.

Berdugo simultaneously co-founded the World Wide West which an annual festival is organized by themed summit of activity and dialogue related to new media arts and technological infrastructure.

Recognition & Awards

Liat Berdugo has been recognized and awarded on numerous occasions. Some of her notable accomplishments include the 2019 Alternative Exposure Round 13 of the Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, the 2017 Community Arts of the Arts Grant, Zellerbach Family Foundation, San Francisco, and a SECA Art Award Nomination, SFMOMA, San Francisco of 2016.

Berdugo's artwork Through the Gallery, Single-channel video incorporating ChatGPT, 2023 was mostly recently on display in University of San Francisco's Thacher Gallery. Berdugo used different AI softwares, like ChatGPT and AIVA, to create the digital piece.

Listed Publications

Books:

The Everyday Maths, London: Bloomsbury, 2021.

The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: Videography, Aesthetics, and Politics in Israel and Palestine, Boston: Anomalous Press, 2013.

Book Chapters:

“Insurgent Ways of Looking: Gendering the Witness and the Land in the Visuality of Israel-Palestine,” in Social Media and Social Order, eds. David Herbert and Stefan Fisher-Høyrem. Warsaw: De Gruyter, 2022

Essays and Journal Articles:

“Emergence in the Social Web,” HZ Journal, April 17 2012.

Liat Berdugo and Lior Zalmanson. “Between Glorification and Catastrophization.” Erev Rav, May 2015.

“Two Days with the Shadowy Emoji Overlords: U+1F618 your ASCII Goodbye.” Rhizome, December 2015.

“I’d Swipe Right on Yr Metadata.” Transart Triennale, June 2016.

“The Ghost of Art Spaces.” Temporary Art Review, December 2016.

“Edges-Turned-Centers: Dialogues between Tech and Art Workers in San Francisco.” The In-Between: Tea Talks, p. 1-4, May 2017.

“Spectral Power.” Real Life Magazine, August 2017.

Liat Berdugo and Megan Nicely. “A New Quantified Self: Embodied Pedagogy and Artistic Practice.” International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 15(1):104-119, January 2019.

“The Halos of Devices: The Neo-Nimbus of Electronic Objects.” Institute of Network Cultures Longform, February 2019.

“A Situation: A Tree in Palestine.” Places Journal, January 2020.

“Seeing Blocks and Crypto Bros.” Media-N 16(1): 79-98, special issue on Art and Labor after Amazon, March 2020.

“Una situación: un árbol en Palestina.” Arquine, June 2020.

“Remix and Reproduction in the Post-Internet Age: A Contemporary Art + Design Pedagogy.” Media-N 17(1): 44-67, special issue on Forking Paths in New Media Art Practices: Investigating Remix, January 2021.

“Art and Internet Infrastructure. ”Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship Vol. 4: special issue on Art, Music, Poetry in the Time of Social Distance, January 2021.

Liat Berdugo and Joshua Simon. “Seeing is Not Enough.” PROTOCOLS, Issue #9, June 2021.

“Violence of Planting in Israel-Palestine.” The Architectural Review, Issue 1485: Tree. October 2021.

Liat Berdugo and Peter Snowden. “‘Through a Lens that Wasn’t My Own’: Vernacular Video and the Digital Archive.” Millennium Film Journal, Issue 75: Boundaries. April 2022.

“Book Review–Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine.” Israel Studies Review 37.3, 2022.

Creative Writing and Art Publications:

“Dinner Theater.” jerman CutBank Literary Magazine, University of Montana, Web, 2012.

“Streetview Supermarket.” Alimentum Journal, Web, 2013.

“My iPhone is Everything.” Scrapped Magazine, Issue 2: “Future Dinosaur,” 24-25, Print and web, 2013.

“Zoom: Liat Berdugo.” Interartive, Issue 50: Art + Copyright, Web, 2013.

“The Everyday Maths (excerpts).” Anomalous Press, Issue 8: 54-58, Print and web, 2013.

“Friday Nights Fish Baked Potato.” Infinity’s Kitchen, N. 7. Web, 2014.

“Lonely.” The Concept Bank, Web, 2014.

Liat Berdugo and Phoebe Osborne. “Unpatentable Multitouch Aerobics.” Flee Immediately, Issue 02: Dance and Code, Web, 2016.

Liat Berdugo, Leora Fridman, Emily Martinez. “Three Rituals for Removing Creative Blocks.” The Concept Bank, Web, 2016.

Liat Berdugo and Leora Fridman. “The Faith Scrolls” in Infinity Ink: An Internet. Infinity’s Kitchen + Ink Press, Print, 2016.

“Shooting Back at Shooting Back.” Harama Magazine, Issue 18: It is Forbidden to Photograph, Web, 2017.

“Shooting Back at Shooting Back.” Quarterly West, Issue 90, Web, 2017.

“How to Make Yourself Into A Commissioning Body in 5 Easy Steps.” Pervasive Labour Union, Special Issue #2: The Entreprecariat, ed. Silvio Lorusso, Print and web, 2017.

“Anxious to Make.” Harama Magazine, Issue 24: Disorientation, Web, 2019.

Publications and Press on the Work:

Books and Catalogs:

Editors. “Liat Berdugo’s Switch” in STIGMART/10: Deterritorialization. pp. 4-6, Print, 2012.

Goodwin, Mitch. Screengrab7 International New Media Arts Award. pp. 14, 32-33, Print and open access, 2015.

Hunn, Sarrita and James MacAnally, eds. To Make a Public: Temporary Art Review 2011--2016, INCA Press, pp. 50-56, Print, 2017.

Liese, Jennifer. The Book of Thesis Books. Providence: Rhode Island School of Design, pp. 8-9, Print, 2018.

Khatt, Anna. The Radical’s Survival Guide to Adventures in Cryptoland: Can Cryptocurrencies Save Us All? Free Radicals, pp. 6, Print, 2019.

Newspapers and Magazines:

Burke, Sarah. “Living Room Light Exchange Salon Series: Where Tech and Art Converge.” East Bay Express, Print and web, Sep 28 2016.

Burke, Sarah. “Side Gig at B4bel4b.” East Bay Express, Print and web, Nov 22 2016.

Mouhktar, Ayah. “Living Room Light Exchange to Premiere Its Fourth Season on Art, New Media, and Tech Culture.” East Bay Express, Print and web, Sep 14 2017.

Hampton, Chris. “What’s Right About The Wrong Biennale?” The New York Times, Print and web, Jan 22 2018.

Mullen, Claire and Sarah Burke. “In a Living Room.” New Life Quarterly, Issue #3, Print and web, Sep 15 2018.

Podcasts, Broadcast Media, and Websites

Padmanabhan, Sahi. “Review: ‘Entanglements’ forces us to consider our relationship to technology,” Chi Arts Hub, Jan 27 2019.

Sheldon, Blythe. “Crypto-Bros Beware: These Artists Aren’t Buying Your Version of Utopia,” KQED Arts, Jan 28 2019.

Burke, Sarah. “Four people helped me write this essay: An investigation of authorship, community, and the value of informal collaborations,” The Creative Independent, Feb 4 2019.

Fields, Noa. “Dangling Wires: Artists Examine Relationship with Technology in Entanglements,” Scapi Magazine, Feb 5 2019.

Spencer, Rochelle. “What Will Social Networks Look Like After the Internet? An Afrofuturistic Vision of Offline Communities,” Lit Hub, Feb 13 2019.

Dwyer, Emma. “Happenings this Spring for Independent Arts,” Temporary Art Review, April 3 2019.

“Stamps Gallery and New Media Caucus Present Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice,” Hyperallergic, Sep 16 2019.

Durbin, Kate. "Art about Amazon Expresses Vulnerable Humanity in the Face of a Ubiquitous Behemoth," Art in America, Mar 5 2020.

Nashville Gallery Association. “The Nashville Gallery Association Virtual Art Crawl” (34:48-36:17), YouTube, May 2 2020.

Hunter, Laura. “An Outstanding Exhibition of Video Art Arrives Right on Time,” Nashville Scene, May 14 2020.

Paradis, Justine. “The Olive and the Pine,” Outside/In podcast, New Hampshire Public Radio, Oct 8 2021.

Mertha, Amelia. “Watch This Space: Spectacle and Speed on the Internet,” Honi Soit, Oct 18 2020.

Bell, Emily. “Liat Berdugo: The Weaponized Camera,” Unsettled podcast, Feb 22 2021.

Wadi, Ramona. “Captured on Camera: the ‘weapon’ that exposes Israeli state and settler violence,” The New Arab, May 12 2021.

Nolan, Joe. “Crawl Space: March 2023,” Nashville Scene, Mar 2 2023.

Edited Volumes:

• Internet Aerobics, 2018-2020
• Living Room Light Exchange, 2014-present
• The Insufferable Whiteness of Being, 2018
• Bitcoin Futures, 2018
• Seeing Blocks and Crypto Bros, 2018
• Military Powerpoint Karaoke, 2018
• Rituals for Removing Creative Block, 2017-2018
• Sweat Net, 2017
• World Wide West 2015-2017
• Anti-Trump Aerobics, 2017
• Freedom Instruments Toolkit, 2017
• The Future of Work, 2016
• Work, Work, Work, 2016
• Quitting, 2o16
• They Paid Me to Give You A Tour of the Internet, 2016
• How to Make Yourself into a Commissioning Body, 2016
• Performative Validations, 2016
• Generators, 2016
• Liat  Berdugo + Emily Martinez as Five Twins, 2016
• This Artwork is About Sharing the Economy, 2016
• Making You, Making Others, 2o15-2016
• Print Screen 2014-2016
• Unpatentable Multitouch Aerobics, 2015-2016
• Encoded Forest, 2016
• Field Link, 2015
• Ourkea, 2015
• The Everyday Maths, 2013
• The Zoom Series 2012-2013
• My iPhone is Everything, 2012
• Blurheads in Disneyland, 2012
• Switch, 2011