Draft:Amelia Winger-Bearskin

Amelia Winger-Bearskin (born 1979 ) is an American artist and educator. Her work deals with artificial intelligence, ethics, and climate justice, among other topics.

Early life and education
Winger-Bearskin was born in 1979, and grew up in Oklahoma and New York. As a child she would accompany her mother during performances of their tribe's (Seneca Cayuga Nation) traditional stories. Winger Bearskin studied opera at Eastman School of Music, and holds an MFA from the University of Texas, Austin in Transmedia. She also has a Master's Degree from NYU Tisch's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). She has formerly taught at Vanderbilt University. In 2021 she was artist and technologist in residence as part of the Stanford Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning (VAF). She was a Mozilla Fellow embedded at MIT Co-Creation Studio in 2020.

She is currently a Banks Endowed Preeminence Chair of AI and the Arts: Digital Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida's Digital Worlds Institute. She is the founding director of the UF AI Climate Justice Lab.

Career
Winger-Bearskin works in a variety of media including photography, video, installation, poetry and performance. Her works often reference or play on concepts taken from traditional Haudenosaunee stories and the history of indigenous peoples in North America set against themes introduced by contemporary technology.

Selected Exhibitions
Winger-Bearskin has shown work at:


 * 2023 - Underwater Listening Room Governor's Island, New York, for LMCC
 * 2023 - Midnight & To Body, NXT Museum, Amsterdam
 * 2023 - SKYWORLD/CLOUD WORLD at the Whitney Museum of American Art
 * 2022 - Honor Native Lands collaboration with NOCS and REI
 * 2020 - Billboard Project, For Freedoms
 * 2020 - Wampum Codes podcast
 * 2019 - Monsters (with Wendy Redstar)
 * 2017 - Your Hands Are Feet (with Sarah Rothberg)
 * 2014 - Stupid Hackathon
 * 2014 - "Say Indian", La biennale d'art contemporain autochtone, 2e édition (Art Biennale of Contemporary Native Art) at Art Mur (Montreal, Canada)
 * 2011 - Creation Story, solo video installation, Verbo Performance Art Festival, Atrium Gallery at the Gwen Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
 * 2011 - Galeria Vermehlo, Sao Paulo Brazil (Interactive Live Performance)
 * 2011 - Heir Today / Gone Tomorrow at the Austin Mexican Cultural Center (June) Austin TX
 * 2011 - Material Apparatus, Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
 * 2010 - Opera Space 204, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN (video installation)
 * 2010 - Free Bruises, Pink LIne Project, Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington DC (Performance)
 * 2010 - Square Dance / Round Dance, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens Georgia (Performance)
 * 2010 - Square Dance/ Round Dance at the Frist Center for Visual Arts Nashville, Tennessee (Performance)
 * Flowers and Vocal Performance at Tama TUPADA Action and Media Art Festival in the Philippines, Manila Philippines (2 Performances)
 * 2010 - Crying on Cue and The State of Things Pan-Asia09 Performance Art in Seoul South Korea (Performance and Video Screening)
 * 2009 - Look Like You've Been in a Fight Cabaret, 10th Annual Open Art Performance Art Festival, Beijing China (Live Performance)
 * 2009 - Memory of Light, Gallery 32, Solo show of the work of Regina Vater with a collaborative performance video, London, England
 * 2009 - Changement de Pieds at gallery F, Nashville TN with Carlin Wing and Charlene Winger-Bearskin.
 * 2007 - Scope Art Fair, Lincoln Center, member of [PAM], New York, NY (Live Performance)
 * Volitant Gallery, Femme Fantastique, Live Performance, Austin, TX
 * Chelsea Art Museum, Video Art in the Age of the Internet, Video installation, New York, NY
 * National Botanical Gardens, Transnatura, Coimbra, Portugal.

Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim Museum, and the McCord Museum.

Awards
In 2022 she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Award for her project CLOUD WORLD / SKYWORLD.

Her 2018 virtual reality piece Your Hands Are Feet from won an Alternative Realities Prize from Engadget and Verizon Media.

Her video art was selected as a part of Storytelling: La biennale d'art contemporain autochtone, 2e édition (Art Biennale of Contemporary Native Art) at Art Mur (Montreal, Canada). She has been a featured artist at numerous international performance art festivals since 2008 in cities not limited to: Beijing, China, Manila, Philippines, Seoul, South Korea, Sao Paulo, Brazil, New York, NY, and Washington, DC. She presented her performance art at the 2012 Gwangju Art Biennial and created an interactive portion of The Exchange Archive at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 2013. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim Museum, and the McCord Museum.

Publications

 * Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice
 * Our Environment

Talks and Keynotes

 * Keynote: New Haven Art & Ideas Festival
 * Creativity in the Age of AI; Stanford Arts
 * Tech As Art: Supporting Artist Who Use Technology as a Creative Medium; National Endowment for the Arts
 * Reseeing the Present, Rewriting the Past; Sundance Institute
 * Future Art Ecosystems; Serpentine Gallery
 * Human Rights and Web3 for Activists; Amnesty International
 * From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future; Eyebeam
 * How Can Artists Reshape Politics; Sundance Film Festival

Other projects
Winger-Bearskin is cofounder of the Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon. She is also the host of the podcast Wampum Codes and founder of the ethical framework for software development of the same name.

Personal life
Amelia is an enrolled member of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, Deer Clan on her mother's side; her late father was Jewish/Baha'i. She was born in Rochester, NY and has one son.